Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber, December 28, 1922) is an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor, voice actor and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.

In collaboration with several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, the X-Men, and many other fictional characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. In addition, he headed the first major successful challenge to the industry’s censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, and forced it to reform its policies. Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

He was inducted into the comic book industry’s Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.

Early life
Stanley Martin Lieber was born in New York City on December 28, 1922, in the apartment of his Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents, Celia (née Solomon) and Jack Lieber, at the corner of West 98th Street and West End Avenue in Manhattan.His father, trained as a dress cutter, worked only sporadically after the Great Depression,[2] and the family moved further uptown to Fort Washington Avenue, in Washington Heights, Manhattan. When Lee was nearly 9, his only sibling, brother Larry Lieber, was born. He said in 2006 that as a child he was influenced by books and movies, particularly those with Errol Flynn playing heroic roles. By the time Lee was in his teens, the family was living in a one-bedroom apartment at 1720 University Avenue in The Bronx. Lee described it as “a third-floor apartment facing out back”, with him and his brother sharing a bedroom and his parents using a foldout couch.

Lee attended DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx. In his youth, Lee enjoyed writing, and entertained dreams of one day writing The Great American Novel. He has said that in his youth he worked such part-time jobs as writing obituaries for a news service and press releases for the National Tuberculosis Center; delivering sandwiches for the Jack May pharmacy to offices in Rockefeller Center; working as an office boy for a trouser manufacturer; ushering at the Rivoli Theater on Broadway; and selling subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune newspaper. He graduated high school early, at age 16½ in 1939, and joined the WPA Federal Theatre Project.

Characters created by Stan Lee

A
Abomination (comics)
Absorbing Man
Acrobat (comics)
Actor (comics)
Agatha Harkness
Aged Genghis
Agent X (Jim Burley)
Agon (comics)
Liz Allan
Amphibion
Amphibion (comics)
Ancient One
Annihilus
Ant-Man
Ares (Marvel Comics)
Avengers (comics)
Awesome Android
B
Balder (comics)
Batroc the Leaper
Beast (comics)
Beetle (comics)
Black Bolt
Black Knight (comics)
Black Knight (Nathan Garrett)
Black Knight (Sir Percy)
Black Panther (comics)
Black Widow (Marvel Comics)
Black Widow (Natalia Romanova)
Blastaar
Blizzard (comics)
Blob (comics)
Blonde Phantom
Bluebird (Marvel Comics)
Boomerang (comics)
Bor (Marvel Comics)
Betty Brant
Brotherhood of Mutants
Burglar (comics)
C
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics)
Carlo Zota Peggy Carter
Sharon Carter
Chameleon (comics)
Circus of Crime
Clea
Clown (comics)
Cobra (comics)
Collector (comics)
Crime Master
Crimson Dynamo
Crystal (comics)
Cyclops (comics)
D
Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
Death-Stalker
Jacques Dernier
Destroyer (Keen Marlow)
Diablo (Marvel Comics)
Dionysus (Marvel Comics)
Doctor Doom
Dormammu
Dragon Man
Dredmund the Druid
Dum Dum Dugan
E
Eel (comics)
Egghead (comics)
Ego the Living Planet
Electro (Marvel Comics)
E cont.
Elektro (comics)
Enchantress (Marvel Comics)
Enclave (comics)
Enforcers (comics)
Eternity (comics)
Executioner (comics)
F
Fafnir (Marvel Comics)
Falcon (comics)
Fandral
Fantastic Four
Farley Stillwell
Doctor Faustus (comics)
Fin Fang Foom
Richard Fisk
Vanessa Fisk
Fixer (comics)
Bill Foster (comics)
Frederick Foswell Freak (Marvel Comics)
Frigga (comics)
Frightful Four
Nick Fury
G
Galactus
Galaxy Master
Mac Gargan
Gargoyle (comics)
Gibbon (comics)
Gladiator (Melvin Potter)
Googam
Goom
Gorgilla
Gorgon (Inhuman)
The Governator
Great Gambonnos
Gregory Gideon
Grey Gargoyle
Elaine Grey
Dr. John Grey (comics)
Jean Grey
Grizzly (comics)
Groot
Growing Man
The Guardian Project (comics)
H
H.E.R.B.I.E.
Hate-Monger
Hawkeye (comics)
Heimdall (comics)
Hela (comics)
Hera (Marvel Comics)
Hercules (Marvel Comics)
High Evolutionary
Happy Hogan Hogun
Hulk (comics)
Human Cannonball (Marvel Comics)
Human Torch
I
Iceman (comics)
Idunn (comics)
Immortus
Impossible Man
Inhumans
Invisible Woman
Iron Man
J
Jackal (Marvel Comics)
John Jameson (comics)
J. Jonah Jameson
Janus the Nega-Man
J cont.
Edwin Jarvis
Abner Jenkins
Jester (Marvel Comics)
Gabe Jones
Rick Jones (comics)
Juggernaut (comics)
Junior Juniper
K
Kala (comics)
Kaluu
Kang the Conqueror Kangaroo (comics)
Karnak (comics)
Karnilla
Master Khan Kid Colt
Kingpin (comics)
Klaw (Marvel Comics)
Eric Koenig
Krang (comics)
Kraven the Hunter
Kree
L
Laufey (comics)
Leader (comics)
Leap-Frog (comics)
Ned Leeds
Live Wire (Marvel Comics)
Living Brain
Living Laser
Lizard (comics)
Lockjaw (comics) Loki (comics)
Looter (comics)
Lucifer (Marvel Comics)
Willie Lumpkin
M
Machinesmith
Mad Thinker
Madame Masque
Magneto (comics)
Maha Yogi
Man Mountain Marko
Man-Beast
Man-Thing
Mandarin (comics)
Mangog
Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)
Masked Marauder
Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde)
Alicia Masters
Matador (Marvel Comics)
Maximus (comics)
Aunt May
Edna McCoy
Norton McCoy
Medusa (comics)
Melter
Mentallo
Mephisto (comics)
Merlin (Marvel Comics)
Metal Master (comics)
Midgard Serpent (Marvel Comics)
Mimic (comics)
Mindless Ones
Miracle Man
Mister Fantastic
Mister Fear
Mister Hyde (comics)
MODOK
Mole Man
Molecule Man
Molten Man
Monsteroso
Montana (comics)
Baron Mordo
Mordred (comics)
Morrat
Mother Night (comics)
Mysterio
N
Foggy Nelson
Nightmare (Marvel Comics)
O
Doctor Octopus
Odin (comics)
Olympians (Marvel Comics)
Harry Osborn
Norman Osborn
Overmind (comics)
Owl (Marvel Comics)
Ox (comics)
P
Karen Page
Painter (comics)
Richard and Mary Parker
Uncle Ben
Chester Phillips
Pinky Pinkerton
Plunderer
Pluto (Marvel Comics)
Porcupine (comics)
Pepper Potts
Princess Python
Prowler (comics)
Psycho-Man
Punisher (Galactus)
Puppet Master (Marvel Comics)
Purple Man
Hank Pym
Q
Quasimodo (comics)
Quicksilver (comics)
R
Radioactive Man (comics)
Rebel Ralston
Ravage 2099
Ravonna
Rawhide Kid
Red Barbarian
Red Ghost
Rhino (comics)
Franklin Richards
R cont.
Ringmaster (comics)
Randy Robertson
Robbie Robertson (comics)
Ronan the Accuser
Betty Ross
Thunderbolt Ross
S
Sandman (Marvel Comics)
Happy Sam Sawyer
Scarecrow (Marvel Comics)
Scarlet Witch
Scorpion (Marvel Comics)
Seeker (comics)
Sentinel (comics)
Sentry (Kree)
Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos
Shalla-Bal
She-Hulk
Shocker (comics)
Sif (comics)
Silver Surfer
Silvermane
Sinister Six
Jasper Sitwell
Skrull
Sleeper (Marvel Comics)
Spencer Smythe
Space Phantom
Spider-Man
Spider-Slayer
Spymaster (comics)
George Stacy
Gwen Stacy
Stilt-Man
Franklin Storm
Doctor Strange
Stranger (comics)
Stripperella
Mendel Stromm
Strongman (comics)
Baron Strucker
Super-Adaptoid
Super-Skrull
Surtur (Marvel Comics)
Swordsman (comics)
T
Glenn Talbot
Thing (comics)
Flash Thompson
Thor (Marvel Comics)
Tiboro
T cont.
Tigra
Tinkerer
Titanium Man
Toad (comics)
Trapster
Bolivar Trask
Triton (comics)
Tumbler (comics)
Two-Gun Kid
Tyr (Marvel Comics)
Tyrannus (comics)
U
Uatu
Ulik
Ultimo (Marvel Comics)
Unicorn (comics)
Unus the Untouchable
V
Vanisher
Vision (Marvel Comics)
Volstagg
Vulture (comics)
W
Walking Stiletto
Adam Warlock
Warriors Three
Wasp (comics)
Watcher (comics)
Anna Watson (comics)
Mary Jane Watson
Whiplash (comics)
Whirlwind (comics)
Wyatt Wingfoot
Wizard (Marvel Comics)
Wonder Man
Wong (comics)
Wong-Chu
Warren Worthington III
Wrecker (comics)
X
X-Men
Professor X
Xemu (comics)
Y
Yancy Street Gang
Ho Yinsen
Ymir (Marvel Comics)
Yon-Rogg
Z
Zabu
Zarrko
Baron Zemo
Zeus (Marvel Comics)
Zom
Zombie (comics)