God Save Stan Lee tee
The Secret Headquarters (my favorite comic store in LA) is finally selling their hilarious "God Save Stan Lee" tees online. My GSSL shirt has been just about my favorite garment for the past six months -- and now you can get one from anywhere.
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Thank goodness it is post hair-plug era Stan.
He's a warm wonderful person. God bless.
Okay, I'm game.
What are we saving Stan from?
For six months, no less?
I find it ammusing that these shirts arent sold in standard fanboy sizes. XXL+
My local comic shop can never sell medium and large size shirts
Such delicious irony. I've needed me one of these since I saw them on your Flickr stream months ago, Cory.
@#2 JayKinney: What are we saving Stan from?
The wrath of Steve Ditko? The poor editorial choices of Joe Quesada? The tedium and insulting stereotypes of season 2 of Who Wants To Be A Superhero? Take your pick.
STAN LEE CAN BURN IN HELL!!! After everything he did to Jack Kirby, after stock manipulation, after double bankruptcy, after running Marvel studios into the ground.
This guy is a manipulative car salesman fraud who produces nothing but bile in everyone he meets! He is only loved by fanboys who know nothing about him. I hope he chokes to death on his tongue!
I hope he cho-wait, what? Who are you people, and how did you make me want to type that?
Yeah, what Shakespear said. A shirt who's target audience is comic book fanboys, that isn't sold in sizes larger than XL? Not the best idea I've ever heard.
Marvel and Stan Lee basically screwed over Jack Kirby, the KING of comics who created Galactus, the Silver Surfer, The Fantastic Four, Captain America and many more. They held ransom more than 2000 pages of original artwork and refused to give it up until Jack gaves up all his rights to any copyrights; Stan Lee was the man in charge at the time.
Lee was also involved with a stock manipulation scam but was never implicated.
All the good stuff from Marvle came from Ditko, Kirby and others. Lee just was good at taking credit.
And in case you are unaware, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee were partners in creating Marvel. They created the company together. So basically, Stan Lee screwed over the creative genius behind the company when it came time to mae that grab for the brass ring.
entertaining shirt....but Stan Lee isn't a true fanboy favourite. He's good at publicity and pushed comics, but he screwed over some great people.
Xeno, about half of what you wrote is true; if you're going to villify the man to the point of wishing him death, at least know what you're talking about. Stan Lee was only an emeritus of the board at Marvel when it went bankrupt; that was Ron Perelman being a sheisty bastard. He was not implicated in the plundering of Stan Lee Media because the blame lays with his business partner Peter Paul, who pled guilty. Also, Marvel preexisted the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby/Steve Ditko days as a company named Timely that had been around at least since the '40's, so none of them "founded" the company. Lee has done some scummy things in his time, but he was neither the first nor the worst.
And if you understood the Sex Pistols reference in this shirt, you'd understand that this is not necessarily a flattering allusion.
License Farm,
Speaking as someone who built the buying dept at Amazon and the person who was put in charge with negotiating with Marvel when they decided to be sell exclusively online through their own online store, I have had to deal with them on numerous occasions of talking through their mouths sideways.
I have also been a comic publisher, artist and have several contacts in the business who have dealt with marvel and stan lee personally. All of them will back up what I say.
True Perlman did swing the bat but Stan Lee WHO HELD ALOT OF SWAY, did nothing to stop him from swinging, did nothing to help his friend and many pleas were made from his Kirby and Kirbys wife to Lee himself. Lee advised them to cave in to the blackmail.
Sorry sorry... the comics business still kills me cause it kills itself. How can you be in love with something that loves to destroy itself?
Obviously this is too personal and I should have never opened my mouth. I apologize for ruining the forum and for being so openly biased. I'll shut up now.
Xeno? I was at Jack Kirby's funeral. Neither Jack or Roz were haters. They moved on. Hating Stan is pointless.