What Stan Lee's done for the comics industry...

Comic Vine is running a contest to win a signed Stan Lee iPod. I'm not sure why he signed an iPod rather than something way more awesome like a picture of one of his characters or something, but I guess (unfortunately) something like an iPod would get more people to sign up and submit than something not as (technically) valuable as a signed image of one of his characters (for that matter, I'd even take a signed picture of him). Needless to say, anything signed by Stan Lee is better than not anything signed by Stan Lee.

That said, the submission requires a text or video description of what Stan Lee has done for the comics industry. Although text is typically my forté (much more so than video), I felt passionate enough about this one to throw it in video form. Hopefully it's not completely awful.

Anyway, here's my opinion of what Stan Lee has done for the comics industry. It goes a bit deeper than his list of characters he created/co-created or the list of important issues he wrote or cartoons he helped develop. It's much more than that. Here goes something...



Those are my thoughts. Hopefully Comic Vine agrees with me and sees my point. Because it's more than characters and comics...it's passion and community shining through in ways that had never been seen. To me, that's a lot more valuable, and it's why the comic book industry is what it is today.

As Stan would say (much, much better than I ever could)... "EXCELSIOR!"