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  • When I was about seven years old, possibly eight years old,

  • somewhere in that range, I was living in Brooklyn.

  • I loved Stan Lee.

  • I was so grateful for him being

  • such a big part of my childhood, and I never outgrew it.

  • I remember reading comics when I was a kid.

  • Everything Stan put into the stories--

  • the visuals for the characters and the way

  • the stories were told--

  • were so vibrant and exciting.

  • When I was in school, in science

  • I would learn about the sun, the moon, the stars, the comets

  • and the galaxies, but when I went home

  • and read Silver Surfer of the Fantastic Four,

  • it would take me there.

  • I remember being seven or eight years old

  • and discovering that if I put enough pressure on either side

  • of the doorframe in my bedroom, I could climb up the doorframe.

  • I remember being rigid with excitement, because I

  • thought I might be Spider-Man.

  • It's unbelievable that it was conceived by one man's brain.

  • He's one of the founding fathers of American mythology,

  • and I think that is going to outlast all of us.

  • I love drawing the Marvel heroes,

  • and so I drew a picture of Stan Lee as a Super Hero.

  • This is the drawing.

  • You can see, Stan has probably triple the breasts.

  • I wasn't great with pectoral muscles at the time.

  • I had none.

  • I still don't have any, and I wrote manly Stan Lee.

  • I was a nerd.

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