Excelsior! The Marvelous Stan Lee.

Stanely Martin Lieber

AKA Stan Lee

"You know, my motto is 'Excelsior.' 

That's an old word that means 'upward and onward to greater glory.' 

It's on the seal of the state of New York. 

Keep moving forward, and if it's time to go, it's time. 

Nothing lasts forever."

He was born on December 28, 1922 in Manhattan, New York City to Ceila and Jack Lieber at heir apartment at the corner of West 98th Street and West End Avenue.

His parents were Romanian-born Jewish immigrants.

His father trained as a dress cutter.
Stan had a younger brother named Larry.

As a child Stan was influenced by books and movies particularly with Errol Flynn playing heroic roles.

By the time he was a teenager, Stan and his family moved to the Bronx at 1720 University Avenue.
Stan and his brother shared the bedroom while their parents slept on a fold out couch.

Stan attended DeWitt Clinton High School.
He enjoyed writing and dreamed of one day writing the great American novel.
He worked part-time writing obituaries and press releases.

Stan worked for the Jack May pharmacy delivering sandwiches to offices in the Rockefeller Center.

He also worked as an office boy for a trouser manufacturer, ushered at the Rivoli Theater on Broadway and sold subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune.

He graduated from high school at age 16 in 1939.

Stan then joined the WPA Federal Theater Project and with the help of his uncle Robbie Solomon, became the assistant at the new Timely Comics division of Pulp Magazine and comic book publisher Martin Goodman's company.
Timely Comics later evolved into Marvel Comics.

Stan made his comic debut using his pseudonym Stan Lee, with the text filler "Captain America foils the Traitor's Revenge" in Captain America Comics #3, which was covered dated May 1941.
Two years later he adopted Stan Lee as his legal name.

His first superhero co-creation was the Destroyer, in Mystic Comics #6, in August 1941 issue.

In late 1941, Stan was 19 years old and made editor-in-chief as well as art director until 1972 when he succeeded Goodman as publisher.

Stan entered the United States Army in 1942 and served within the U.S. as a member if the Signal Corps.
He repaired telegraph poles and other communications equipment
Later he was transferred to the Training Film Division.
While there he wrote manuals, training films, slogans and the occasional cartoons.
Stan returned from his military service in 1945 and rented the top floor of a brownstone in the east 90's in Manhattan.

On December 5th, 1947 he married Joan Clayton Boocock.
In 1949, they bought a house in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island.

Their first child, Joan Celia Lee was born in 1950.
Also in the 1950's, Lee wrote stories for Atlas comics.

He also teamed up with Dan Decarlo to produce the syndicated newspaper strip, My Friend Irma.
By the end of the 1950's, Stan became dissatisfied and considered quitting comics all together.
Martin Goodman assigned Stan to come up with a new superhero team.
Stan's wife suggested that he experiment with stories he liked before changing careers.
Acting on his wife's advice, Stan gave his superheros flaws.
Before this, superheros were virtually perfect.

The first superhero group Stan and Jack Kirby created together were the Fantastic Four.
This was based on Kirby's superhero team called the Challengers of the Unknown, published by D.C. Comics.

They then created the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man and the X-men. 
With the help of others they also created Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Spiderman and the Avengers.
They revived characters such as the Sub-Mariner and Captain America.
From 1952 to 1980, Stan and his family lived in the Long Island town of Hewlett Harbor, New York.
They also owned a condo on East 63rd Street in Manhattan from 1975 to 1980 and a vacation home in Remsenburg.
Stan's second child, Jan Lee, was born in 1953, she died three days after delivery.
Through out the 1960's, Stan scripted, art-directed and edited most of the Marvel series.

He also moderated the letters pages and wrote a monthly column called "Stan's Soapbox", often signing off with his moto "Excelsior!"
To meet his deadlines, Stan used a system that became known as the "Marvel Method".
Stan's goal was for fans to think of comic book creators as friends.

Stan made his first appearance as himself in the January, 1963, #10 issue of The Fantastic Four.

The Merry Marvel Marching Society fan club formed in 1965.
Stan would record messages for them.
In 1966, John Romita Sr. and collaborated with Stan on The Amazing Spiderman.
In the stories they addressed issues such as the Vietnam War.

In August 1967, in The Amazing Spiderman #51, Robbie Robertson was introduced. 
He was one of the first African-American characters in comics to play a serious supporting role.

In the Fantastic Four series, many acclaimed story lines and characters have become central to Marvel, such as the Inhumans and the Black Panther.

The Black Panther is an African king who is mainstream comic's first black superhero.

In August 1968, Stan and artist John Buscema launched The Silver Surfer series.

In 1974, Stan won the Inkpot Award.

Stan later made an appearance as a superhero Mister Fantastic in the October, 1978, #11 issue What If, What if the Marvel Bullpen Had Become the Fantastic Four.
Stan became a figurehead and public face for Marvel Comics.

In 1981, Stan moved to  West Hollywood, California to develop Marvel's Tv and movie properties.
He was an executive producer for and made cameos in Marvel film adaptations and other movies.
Occasionally he returned to comic book writing.
Stan was briefly the president of the entire company.
Soon he stepped down to be a publisher, because he loved the creative process.
Between 1981 and 2001, Stan also donated some of his personal items to the University of Wyoming.

In 1994 Stan was inducted into the Will Elsner Award Hall of Fame.

In 1995, he was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.
In the 1990's, he stepped away from his duties at Marvel.
In 1998, Stan and Peter Paul began a intern-based superhero creation, production, and marketing studio called Stan Lee Media.
Near the end of 2000, investigators discovered illegal stock manipulation by Paul and the corporate officer, Stan Lee Media had to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February 2001.
Stan was never implicated in the scheme.

Stan is mentioned in Michael Chabon's 2000 novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
In 2001, Stan, Gill Champion and Arthur Lieberman formed Purveyors of Wonder Entertainment to develop film, television and video game properties.

This is when Stan created Stripperella for Spike TV.
In 2002, Stan won the Saturn Award and was nominated for The Life Career Award.
Stan sued Marvel in 2002, claiming that the company was failing to pay his share of profits from movies featuring characters he had co-created.
After  decades of making little money licensing them for television and film, Marvel promised him 10% of any future profits.
In 2002, when Stan was asked if he believed in god, he answered,
"Well, let me put it this way... 
No, i'm not going to try and be clever. 
i really don't know. 
i just don't know."
In 2004, POW Entertainment went public and Stan announced a superhero program that would feature Ringo Starr as the lead character.
In 2005, Stan and Marvel settled for an undisclosed seven-figure amount.
In August of that year, Stan launched Stan Lee's Sunday Comics.
Honoring Stan's 65 years with Marvel, the company published a series of one-shot comics starring him in 2006.

He appears in Paul Malmont's 2006 novel The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril as Stanley Lieber.

From July 2006 until September 2007 Stan hosted, co-created, executive-produced and judged the Sci-Fi Channel's realitly television game show competition Who Wants to Be a Superhero?

In 2007, at the Comic-Con International, Marvel Legends introduced a Stan Lee action figure.
In 2007's  Stan Lee Meets Superheroes, written by Stan, he comes into contact with some of his favorite characters.
In 2008, Stan received the Nation Medal of Arts.
In 2009, he was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
He was also nominated for and won the Comic-Con Icon Award at the Scream Awards.
On October 2nd, 2009, the County of Los Angeles and the City of Long Beach declared it "Stan Lee Day."
Founded in 2010, the Stan Lee Foundation focuses on literacy, education and the arts.
It's goals include supporting programs and ideas that improve access to literacy resources, as well as promoting diversity, national literacy, culture and arts.

In 2011, Stan gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In October 2011, Stan announced he would partner with 1821 Comics on a multimedia imprint for children, Stan Lee's Kids Universe.
He also said that he was collaborating with the company on Romeo & Juliet: The Ear.
It is a futuristic graphic novel written by Max Work and illistrated by Skan Srisuwan.
In 2011, Stan started writing a live-action musical called The Yin and Yand Battle of Tao.
In 2012, he wins the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Visual Effects Society Awards and the Vanguard Award from the Producers Guild of America.
Stan announced his YouTube channel, Stan Lee's World of Heros, at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International.
In September 2012, Stan underwent an operation to insert a pacemaker.
He is Stanely Martin Lieber, a historian of superhumans, in Lavie Tidhar's 2013 The Violent Century.
In January 2015, Stan wrote the book Zodiac.
Stan's film, Annihilator, which had been in production since 2013, was released in 2015.
It is based on the Chinese prisoner-turned-superhero named Ming.
In the 2000's, Stan launched the Just Imagine series.
He re-imagined the DC superheros.
He also did Manga projects.
In 2016, at the Comic-Con International, Stan introduced Stan Lee's God Woke.
This was a digital graphic novel with text originally written as a poem he had presented to Carnegie Hall in 1972.
The printed version of the novel won the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award's Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award.
He was inducted into the Signal Corps Regimental Association and was given honorary membership of the 2nd Battalion of 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord at the 2017 Emerald City Comic Con.
Stan and his wife had been married for 67 years, when, on July 6, 2017,  95 year old Joan, died of complications from a stroke.
On July 14th, 2017, Stan was named as a Disney Legend for his creation of numerous characters that later comprised Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe.
On July 18th, as a part of D23 Disney Legends event, a ceremony was held at the TCL Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard where Stan imprinted his hands, feet and signature in cement.
In February, 2018, Stan had been battling pneumonia and was rushed to the hospital for worsening conditions.
In April 2018, it was reported that Stan was a victim of elderly abuse and that his business manager, Keya Morgan and a memorabilia collector, had been isolating him from his trusted friends and associates after Joan's death, to gain access to Stan's estimated $50 million dollar wealth.
In August 2018, Keya Morgan was issued a restraining order to stay away from Stan, his family and associated for three years.
On November 12, 2018, Stan was rushed to Cedarso-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California for a medical emergency, where later in the day he passed away at the age of 95.
Roy Thomas was the man that succeeded Stan as editor-in-cheif at Marvel and he had visited Stan two days prior to his death to discuss the upcoming book The Stan Lee Story.
He said that he thinks Stan was ready to go, even though he talked about doing more cameos.
He said that Stan
 "Got a kick out of those more any anything else."
Stan was shown in numerous cameo appearances.
Stan had completed the filmed footage for his latest cameo in the fourth Avengers film before his death.
Did you know that in comics published by Dc Comics he was parodied as Funky Flashman?

Latest Autopsy Confirms That Kendrick Johnson Was Murdered.

Kendrick Johnson's latest autopsy report is in and in it there is evidence he was murdered.
The report states that he had non accidental bluntforce trauma between his neck and abdomen.
Earlier this year Kendrick's parents had someone claim that Kendrick was hit in the chest with a 45 pound dumbbell and the surveillance video was edited to cut out about an hour of footage.

Jaymee Closs is missing and parents were murdered.....

On October 15th, at around 12:30 a.m. neighbors of Denise and James Closs reporting hearing gunshots.
At 1:00 a.m., Denise made a chaotic and confusing 911 call.
The dispatcher could hear a lot of yelling.
By the time police got to the house, their 13 year old Jayme was gone and Denise and James Closs were shot  dead inside  their home in northwestern Wisconsin.
The front door was kicked in and a wounded James answered the door for officers before dying.
Denise had tried to barricade herself in the bathroom to no avail.
Multiple rounds had been spent, but there was no gun found at the scene.
Investigators believe Jayme was kidnapped.
Jayme is 5ft tall, 100 lbs, with green eyes and strawberry blonde hair.
Authorities are searching for two cars-2008 to a 2014 red or orange Dodge Challenger and a 2004 to a 2010 black Ford Edge or black Acura MDX.
There was a lead that came in that led authorities to organize a search.
The field that volunteers have been searching in are close to a house of part of that tip.
The other part of the tip is to a trailer court nearby, which, as far as i know, has yet to be searched.
The first 3 hours in an abduction case are critical.
Usually the person is killed in the first 3 hours, if they are going to be killed.
Why then didn't the Amber Alert go out for Jayme until 12 hours later?
i also was wondering why didn't neighbors call police?
Besides  hearing the gunshots, didn't they hear their neighbor's door being kicked in or the vehicle/s peeling away?
They didn't hear the screams either?
If this was a planned attack, it had to be someone the family knew?
Or someone that stalked their daughter perhaps.
Why would they be so brazen to go to the house and shoot it up like that if it was just to kidnap Jayme?
I'm sure there would be easier ways.
Maybe the parents knew them, or they were angry at them perhaps?
This get even stranger...
On the day that Denise and James are laid to rest, a man named  Kyle Jaenke Annis, breaks into their house and steals some of Jayme's underwear and other clothing.
He worked the Jennie-O Turkey store with Jayme's parents.

A Tortured Life: Wild Child Genie Wiley.

Wild Child Susan "Genie"  Wiley

Genie was born in 1957 in Arcadia, California, to Clark Wiley and Irene Ogelsby.
After her parents were married, Clark beat Irene and prevented her from leaving the home.
Irene was already partially blind before the beatings, would become completely dependent on her husband.
Clark didn't want any children, but five years into their marriage, his wife became pregnant with a girl named Dorothy.
Clark had found the cries of Dorothy disturbing and had placed her in the garage.
The Dorothy caught pneumonia and died at the age of ten weeks old.
A year later, they had a baby boy name Robert , whom only made it to two days old after choking on his own vomit.
Three years later they had another son they named John.
The father forced the wife to keep the boy quiet, causing physical and developmental delays.
When John reached the age of four, his maternal grandmother Pearl took him in for a few months.
He made good improvements, but then was given back to his parents.
Genie was born 5 years after her brother.
Her dad began isolating the whole family and himself from others.
She was in the 50th percentile  for weight and had to have a blood transfusion.
She had a congenital hip dislocation and had to wear a highly restrictive Frejka splint from 4 to 11 months.
This caused her to be late to walk, which might have led her dad to believe that she was intellectually disabled.
Her father made a concentrated effort not to talk or pay attention to her.
He also encouraged the wife and son to do the same.
At 14 months old, she was starting to show signs of malnutrition.
She came down with a fever and pneumonitits.
Six months later, Genie's paternal grandmother died in a hit and run.
Because his son was walking with the grandmother at the time of the accident, Genie's father blamed him.
The truck diver received a probationary sentence for manslaughter and drunk driving.
This made the father become delusional with rage.
He thought now more than ever that he had to protect his family from the outside world and lacked self awareness to recognize the destruction his actions caused.
He thought Genie would require even more protection.
Her father immediately quit his job and moved the family into his mother's two bedroom house in Temple City, California.
Genie was confined to the second bedroom in the back of the house while the rest of the family slept in the living room.
The grandmother's room was left as a shrine to her.
For 13 hours a day, genie's father tied her to a child's toilet in a makeshift harness that functioned as a straitjacket.
She wore diapers and only could move her arms and legs.
At night he usual tied her to a sleeping bag and placed her in a crib with a metal screen cover.
This left her arms and legs immobilized.
Sometimes he'd leave her on her toilet over night.
If she made any sound at all, he'd beat her with a large plank he kept in her room.
He would bare his teeth and howl like a dog.
He also grew out his nails to scratch her with.
Genie learned to make as little sound as possible.
She grew to masturbate in socially inappropriately.
This led researchers to believe she was sexually abused by her father and brother.
Genie was fed as little food as possible.
She was on a diet of baby food, cereal, Pablum, sometimes a soft boiled egg and liquids.
Her father and brother spoon fed her and when she didn't eat fast enought, they would rub her face in her food.
Genie's mother would try to sneak her food around 11 p.m.
Her father almost never allowed his wife or son to speak and would beat them.
Genie's room was kept extremely dark with blacked out windows.
Her brother tried to run away a few times.
Genie's father felt, for some reason, that she wouldn't live past 12 years old.
He told his wife that if she did that she and Genie would be able to leave.
In October 1970, Genie was almost 14 years old when her parents had a violent argument.
Her mother threatened to walk out if she couldn't call her parents.
Her husband relented and she called her parents
One day Clark left the house and Irene an Genie escaped with Irene's parents.
By this time Genie's brother was 18 and out of the house living with friends.
November 4th, Genie and her mom went to apply for disability benefits.
They accidentally went next door to the social security office.
The worker that greeted them was shocked when she learned Genie's real age and contacted police.
Genie's parents were arrested and she became a ward of the court and she was immediately taken to a children's hospital.
On November 12, Genie's father committed suicide.
The charges against the mother were dropped and she received counseling.
Genie was 4 ft 6 in and weighed 59 lbs.
She had nearly two sets of teeth and a distended abdomen.
She had thick callus and heavy bruising on her buttocks from the restraints.
She had dis formed hips and an undersized rib cage.
Testing showed she did not have anything wrong with her eyes, but she could not focus them on anything past 10 feet, the measurement of the room her father kept her in.
She couldn't stand up straight or fully straighten her limbs.
Her movements were hesitant and unsteady.
She could not chew and had severe dysphagia.
She was even barely able to swallow liquids.
Genie was completely incontinent.
Eventually Genie learned to play, chew and dress herself.
She enjoyed music.
Today Genie is in a private adult home for the mentally disabled in Southern California.

The Melified Man: Why Did Some People Eat Human Mummy Confection?

The Mellified Man was a legendary medicinal substance created by steeping a human cadaver in honey eaten by people in China hundreds of years ago.

There are rumors that this practice might still go on.

The process of Mellification would often begin before death.

The person that was going to be Mellified, would either volunteer or be forced to eat nothing but honey before their death.

This diet was of course fatal.

The body then would be placed in a coffin filled with honey.

It would then be left for 100 years.

The body and the honey would melt down and mesh together in a sweet substance, which would then be sold as a health food in street markets.

 

The Haunted Painting That Has Been Terrifying People For Decades.

"The Hands Resist Him", was created by Bill Stoneham in 1972.

It depicts a young boy and female doll standing in front of a glass paneled door against which many hands are pressed.

The boy is based on a photograph of Stoneham at age five, the doorway is a representation of the dividing line between the waking world and the world of fantasy and impossibilities, while the doll is a guide that will escort the boy through it.

The titular hands represent alternate lives or possibilities.

In the year 2000, the painting was put up for auction after the original owner of the piece died.

According to the seller of the painting, there was a curse attached to the picture.

They claimed that the hands pressed against the window moved and that the young boy and the doll would leave the painting to haunt those nearby.

Stories still persist that the painting's inhabitants still terrorize anyone who buys the picture.

Two more paintings were created.

The second painting is a sequel and the third is a prequel.

What Was Unit 731?

Unit 731 of many covert Imperial Japanese facilities specializing in biological and chemical warfare during World War II.
It was thought at the time, that Unit 731 was researching chemical compounds.
It was discovered that the primary research done there was to do lethal experiments on live human beings.
At Unit 731, they cultivated dangerous diseases, like the plague and then injecting it into unwilling test subjects.
The scientists then would study how the diseases would ravage the bodies of the victims.
Some of the prisoners were raped to see if the diseases were passed on to the babies.
They would frostbite testing, captives were taken outside and have various appendages into water, and allowing the limb to freeze. Once frozen, was struck with a short stick, ice was chipped away and the area doused in water. 
The effects of different water temperatures were tested by bludgeoning the victim to determine if any areas were still frozen. Variations of these tests in more gruesome forms were performed.
Over 3,000 men, woman, children and infants were killed.
During the final months of World War II, Japan planned to use plague as a biological weapon against San Diego, California.

The plan was scheduled to launch on September 22, 1945, but Japan surrendered five weeks earlier.

After the war the scientists were rewarded and welcomed into the United States to share their expertise.
Several former Unit 731 officials went on to have successful careers in medicine, academia and business.

24 years later he confessed to her murder, but Annette's body has never been found.

Annette Hill (Annette Cundiff)

She was a 38 year old social worker when she went missing from Sandy, Utah on May, 12, 1989.

She left her home near 82nd South and 1220 East, telling her 11-year-old daughter she would be back in a couple of hours, and never returned.

Annette took her purse with her when she disappeared, but left behind her vehicle.

As a part of a plea deal, Thomas Evan Noffsinger, who had been in prison for 24 years for killing a chef admitted on Friday, October 3rd, 2014, that he murdered a teenage girl in 1989 and also confessed to killing Annette a month later.

Her purse, which had blood on it, was discovered in an apartment that Noffsinger had been evicted from.

Police also found a prescription bottle with Hill's name on it in Noffsinger's medicine chest.

Noffsinger sad that Annette had stopped to use a pay phone near 900 E. South Temple in Salt Lake City. 

Noffsinger was riding his bicycle home from a bar when he saw Annette and stopped to talk to her.

He doesn't know what made him do it, but he hit her and dragged Annette's unconscious body behind a gas station.

He returned to retrieve his bike, and then went back to strangle Annette until he could tell she was dead.

He then sexually assaulted her and put her body in a nearby Dumpster, covering her with trash.

Her body has never been found.

Annette's loved ones obtained a death certificate for her in 1991.

At the time of her disappearance she was 5'4 - 5'5 tall, 110 lbs, with strawberry blonde hair, red highlights and blue eyes.

She had pierced ears and freckles.

She was wearing a black jumpsuit, black shoes, a peach-colored ring, and a gold-colored watch.

John disappeared after her was arrested for a DUI.

John William Wagner

John had not had contact with his family since 1990.

He was last seen when he was arrested for driving under the influence in the 70 block of north Main in Kanab, Utah on August 24, 1993.

At the time of his disappearance he was 5'10 tall, 180 pounds, with light brown hair and blue eyes.
Wagner has a scar on his toe and a burn scar on his shoulder. 

He wears eyeglasses.

Bobbi Went To Go Cash Her Check And Never Returned.

Bobbi Ann Campbell

She was vanished on Dec. 27, 1994 after leaving her then 5-year-old daughter, Stephanie Cook, at a friend’s house while she ran errands in Salt Lake City, Utah.

She was going to go get her paycheck at S.O.S. Staffing Services, the bank and then the grocery store.

Bobbi never picked up her check and never returned home.

Her car was found unlocked and abandoned roughly 8 months after her disappearance and not far from the Jordan River in a neighborhood near 240 South and 1100 West. 

Her cosmetics, purse, clothes, money, clothes and Christmas presents were still there, but there was no sign of her at the scene.

She may have a problem with substance abuse.

Earlier this year in 2018, new tips in her disappearance came to light.
The tips indicated that the individuals with Bobbi at the time of her death panicked, and that they disposed of her.

Bobbi's body has yet to be found.

At the time of her disappearance Bobbie was 5'1" tall, 105 lbs, with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Bobbi had a two-inch scar on her right shoulder and several tattoos, including a mushroom and a sunbeam on her right leg and a rose on her left calf.

She would be 48 years.