“An entire generation of young readers expanded and strengthened their vocabulary and knowledge through Stan’s stories.” – “Marvel and Disney Remember Stan Lee”

“Mr. Lee’s unwavering energy suggested that he possessed superpowers himself…. And the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledged as much when it awarded him a National Medal of Arts in 2008. But he was frustrated, like all humans, by mortality.” – Jonathan Kandell and Andy Webster. “Stan Lee Is Dead at 95; Superhero of Marvel Comics.” New York Times.com.  November 12, 2018.

Selected Furman Library resources related to Stan Lee’s life and work:

Books

         

Feature Films

  

Documentary Films:

With Great Power comes Great Responsibility (1960’s-1970’s): Superheroes—A Never Ending Battle

A Hero can be Anyone (1980’s-today): Superheroes—A Never Ending Battle

The American Comic Strip

Scholarly Articles:

Donoso Munita, J. A., & Penafiel Durruty, M. A. (2017). Transmedial transduction in the Spider-verse. Palabra Clave, 20(3), 763-787. doi:10.5294/pacla.2017.20.3.8

Gabilliet, J. (1994). Cultural and mythical aspects of a superhero: The Silver Surfer 1968-1970. Journal of Popular Culture, 28(2), 203-213.

Gavaler, C. (2014). Zombies vs. superheroes: The Walking Dead resurrection of Fantastic Four gender formulas. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, 7(4).

Genter, R. (2007). “With great power comes great responsibility”: Cold War culture and the birth of Marvel Comics. Journal of Popular Culture, 40(6), 953-978.

Gruber, J. (2015). The dharma of Doctor Strange: The shifting representations of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism within a comic book serial. Implicit Religion, 18(3), 347-371. doi:10.1558/imre.v18i3.19420

Hayton, C. J., & Albright, D. L. (2012). The military vanguard for desegregation: Civil Rights era war comics and racial integration. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, 6(2).

Lunenfeld, P. (2001). Growing up pulp. Artext, 73, 31-32.

Martín, J. (2017). La sombra sobre marvel: Reescrituras del horror arquetípico en los cómics del Doctor Extraño. Brumal: Revista De Investigación Sobre Lo Fantástico/Research Journal on the Fantastic, 5(1), 247-273.

McCrystal, E. (2018). Hyde the hero: Changing the role of the modern-day monster. University of Toronto Quarterly, 87(1), 234-248. doi:10.3138/utq.87.1.234

Mitchell, D. (2015). Paradoxes and patriarchy: A legal reading of She-Hulk. Griffith Law Review, 24(3), 446-481. doi:10.1080/10383441.2015.1087367

Mondello, S. (1976). Spider-man: Superhero in the liberal tradition. Journal of Popular Culture, 10, 232-238. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.1976.1001_232.x

Pearl, B. (2017). Start spreading the news: Marvel and New York City. International Journal of Comic Art, 19(1), 562-574

Peppard, A. (2018). ‘A cross burning darkly, blackening the night’: Reading racialized spectacles of conflict and bondage in Marvel’s early Black Panther comics. Studies in Comics, 9(1), 59-85. doi:10.1386/stic.9.1.59_1

Radford, B. (2007). Superhero science. Skeptical Inquirer, 31(4), 35-36.

Robinson, A. S. (2018). We are Iron Man: Tony Stark, Iron Man, and American identity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s phase one films. Journal of Popular Culture, 51(4), 824-844.

Schumer, A. (2012). The auteur theory of comics. International Journal of Comic Art, 14(1), 474- 484.

Sharma, D. (2009). Fabulous facilitator: Marvelous origins of the OD superhero. Organization Development Journal, 27(3), 35-52.

Image Credit

FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER (2007) – LEE, STAN; STORY, TIM. [Photography]. Retrieved from Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest.
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