Monday, October 17, 2005
~Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.~*Albert Einstein~*
Such wisdom makes me think of the only wise words of note to ever come out of the quill of a (so-called) marvelous four-color scribe; "nuff said"!(Okay - I jest! He is most famous - and rightfully so - for popularizing the phrase "with great power comes great responsability"... If thou doest not know who it is that I am referring to... check out the luminous comments section!)
Quite frankly - if Albert himself said it, who am I not to espouse it? Hmm? ;)
He is one of the two Als that I admire the most - the other one being an Alfred actually... Hitchcock! :)
However - who in blue blazes misquoted Albert on some website out there(and that is from where I obtained the quote in the first place!) - for surely Einstein knew the difference between "then" and "than"...!
As he knew the difference between imagination and alleged -for always disputable- earthly knowledge!
Still - Albert knew a lot, but Albert did not know it all!
Nor did he did even know best!
JESUS KNOWS BEST!
Even temperamental types such as Kanye West and I know THAT...!
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Stan Lee aka Stanley Martin Lieber, is the culprit...
Some random quotes from him:
"WITH GREAT POWER THERE MUST ALSO COME - - GREAT RESPONSIBILITY!"
(from Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) - The first appearance of a Spider-Man story.)
Often-used variant: "With great power comes great responsibility."
(so - he paraphrases himself - sheesh! No wonder I did so too...)
"Excelsior!"
(Closing signature line on "Stan Lee's Soapbox" editorial pages.)
"Face front, true believer!"
(Often-used line on "Stan Lee's Soapbox" editorial pages.)
"I felt someday I'd write "The Great American Novel" and I didn't want to use my real name on these silly little comics."
(On why he began using the name "Stan Lee".)
"If a character had the first initial in both names, I could at least remember one of the names." -
On his use of alliterative names with many of his characters (ie: Peter Parker, Reed Richards, Sue Storm, etc. )
Some random quotes from him:
"WITH GREAT POWER THERE MUST ALSO COME - - GREAT RESPONSIBILITY!"
(from Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) - The first appearance of a Spider-Man story.)
Often-used variant: "With great power comes great responsibility."
(so - he paraphrases himself - sheesh! No wonder I did so too...)
"Excelsior!"
(Closing signature line on "Stan Lee's Soapbox" editorial pages.)
"Face front, true believer!"
(Often-used line on "Stan Lee's Soapbox" editorial pages.)
"I felt someday I'd write "The Great American Novel" and I didn't want to use my real name on these silly little comics."
(On why he began using the name "Stan Lee".)
"If a character had the first initial in both names, I could at least remember one of the names." -
On his use of alliterative names with many of his characters (ie: Peter Parker, Reed Richards, Sue Storm, etc. )
"Jack Kirby, during his years of working for DC Comics in the 1970s, created the character Funky Flashman as a blatant parody of Stan Lee. With his hyperbolic speech pattern, gaudy toupee, and hip 70s Manhattan style beard (a style Lee sported at the time) this ne'er-do-well charlatan first appeared in the pages of Mister Miracle."
I am sure Jack loooooved collaborating with Stan in their hey-day... yeah...
"In Alan Moore's satirical miniseries 1963, based on numerous Marvel characters of the 1960s, Moore's alter ego "Affable Al" parodies Lee and his allegedly unfair treatment of artists.
The "Young Dan Pussey" stories by Daniel Clowes, collected in Pussey!, feature an exploitative publisher who relies on Lee's gung-ho style and "Bullpen" mythology to motivate his stable of naïve and underpaid creators; the stories mainly satirize the state of mainstream comics in the 1990s, but also the subculture of young superhero fans that Lee helped to create."
This attitude is alleged to have been Stan Lee's actual style as an employer - he forgets how lucky HE was when he got the job at 17 years of age...
"Comic creator Joe Simon related "One day Uncle Robbie came to work with a lanky 17-year-old in tow. 'This is Stanley Lieber, Martin's wife's cousin,' Uncle Robbie said. 'Martin wants you to keep him busy.'"
In an appendix, however, Simon in a 1989 conversation with Lee says the following:
Lee: I've been saying this [classified-ad] story for years, but apparently it isn't so. And I can't remember because I['ve] said it so long now that I believe it." ...
Simon: "Your Uncle Robbie brought you into the office one day and he said, 'This is Martin Goodman's wife's nephew.' [sic] ... You were seventeen years old."
Lee: "Sixteen and a half!"
Simon: "Well, Stan, you told me seventeen. You were probably trying to be older.... I did hire you."
Lee's account of how he began working for Marvel's predecessor, Timely, has varied. He has said in lectures and elsewhere that he simply answered a newspaper ad seeking a publishing assistant, not knowing it involved comics, let alone his uncle, Goodman: "I applied for a job in a publishing company ... I didn't even know they published comics. I was fresh out of high school, and I wanted to get into the publishing business, if I could. There was an ad in the paper that said, "Assistant Wanted in a Publishing House." When I found out that they wanted me to assist in comics, I figured, 'Well, I'll stay here for a little while and get some experience, and then I'll get out into the real world.' ... I just wanted to know, 'What do you do in a publishing company?' How do you write? ... How do you publish? I was an assistant. There were two people there named Joe Simon and Jack Kirby – Joe was sort-of the editor/artist/writer, and Jack was the artist/writer. Joe was the senior member. They were turning out most of the artwork. Then there was the publisher, Martin Goodman... And that was about the only staff that I was involved with. After a while, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby left. I was about 17 years old [sic], and Martin Goodman said to me, 'Do you think you can hold down the job of editor until I can find a real person?' When you're 17, what do you know? I said, 'Sure! I can do it!' I think he forgot about me, because I stayed there ever since."
However, in his 2002 autobiography, Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee, he says: "My uncle, Robbie Solomon, told me they might be able to use someone at a publishing company where he worked. The idea of being involved in publishing definitely appealed to me. ... So I contacted the man Robbie said did the hiring, Joe Simon, and applied for a job. He took me on and I began working as a gofer for eight dollars a week...."
Hmm... Still, Stan is to comics (in the eyes of many) what ALBERT EINSTEIN is to science... And Einstein giving the edge to imagination ties nicely into Stan's lone DC work Just Imagine... does it not?
Forget the fact that Stan Lee did the natural thing and associated himself with Hugh Hefner... and Pamela Anderson (for Stripperella)
Still... Funky Flashman and that annoying character from the lamentable Germano-Canadian sci-fi show "LEXX" embody Stan Lee well I think... that character's name was Stanley. The whole sordid tale of luck and circumstance is here
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I am sure Jack loooooved collaborating with Stan in their hey-day... yeah...
"In Alan Moore's satirical miniseries 1963, based on numerous Marvel characters of the 1960s, Moore's alter ego "Affable Al" parodies Lee and his allegedly unfair treatment of artists.
The "Young Dan Pussey" stories by Daniel Clowes, collected in Pussey!, feature an exploitative publisher who relies on Lee's gung-ho style and "Bullpen" mythology to motivate his stable of naïve and underpaid creators; the stories mainly satirize the state of mainstream comics in the 1990s, but also the subculture of young superhero fans that Lee helped to create."
This attitude is alleged to have been Stan Lee's actual style as an employer - he forgets how lucky HE was when he got the job at 17 years of age...
"Comic creator Joe Simon related "One day Uncle Robbie came to work with a lanky 17-year-old in tow. 'This is Stanley Lieber, Martin's wife's cousin,' Uncle Robbie said. 'Martin wants you to keep him busy.'"
In an appendix, however, Simon in a 1989 conversation with Lee says the following:
Lee: I've been saying this [classified-ad] story for years, but apparently it isn't so. And I can't remember because I['ve] said it so long now that I believe it." ...
Simon: "Your Uncle Robbie brought you into the office one day and he said, 'This is Martin Goodman's wife's nephew.' [sic] ... You were seventeen years old."
Lee: "Sixteen and a half!"
Simon: "Well, Stan, you told me seventeen. You were probably trying to be older.... I did hire you."
Lee's account of how he began working for Marvel's predecessor, Timely, has varied. He has said in lectures and elsewhere that he simply answered a newspaper ad seeking a publishing assistant, not knowing it involved comics, let alone his uncle, Goodman: "I applied for a job in a publishing company ... I didn't even know they published comics. I was fresh out of high school, and I wanted to get into the publishing business, if I could. There was an ad in the paper that said, "Assistant Wanted in a Publishing House." When I found out that they wanted me to assist in comics, I figured, 'Well, I'll stay here for a little while and get some experience, and then I'll get out into the real world.' ... I just wanted to know, 'What do you do in a publishing company?' How do you write? ... How do you publish? I was an assistant. There were two people there named Joe Simon and Jack Kirby – Joe was sort-of the editor/artist/writer, and Jack was the artist/writer. Joe was the senior member. They were turning out most of the artwork. Then there was the publisher, Martin Goodman... And that was about the only staff that I was involved with. After a while, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby left. I was about 17 years old [sic], and Martin Goodman said to me, 'Do you think you can hold down the job of editor until I can find a real person?' When you're 17, what do you know? I said, 'Sure! I can do it!' I think he forgot about me, because I stayed there ever since."
However, in his 2002 autobiography, Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee, he says: "My uncle, Robbie Solomon, told me they might be able to use someone at a publishing company where he worked. The idea of being involved in publishing definitely appealed to me. ... So I contacted the man Robbie said did the hiring, Joe Simon, and applied for a job. He took me on and I began working as a gofer for eight dollars a week...."
Hmm... Still, Stan is to comics (in the eyes of many) what ALBERT EINSTEIN is to science... And Einstein giving the edge to imagination ties nicely into Stan's lone DC work Just Imagine... does it not?
Forget the fact that Stan Lee did the natural thing and associated himself with Hugh Hefner... and Pamela Anderson (for Stripperella)
Still... Funky Flashman and that annoying character from the lamentable Germano-Canadian sci-fi show "LEXX" embody Stan Lee well I think... that character's name was Stanley. The whole sordid tale of luck and circumstance is here
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