Stan "The Man" Lee was born on this date in 1922. Stan is a guy who gets too much credit for the wild success of Marvel, but that said there's no way it happens without him. He had much more help from other great talents. Still Stan was a great comic book writer, able to bring high drama to the antics of Marvel's heroes. Stan gained even more fame from his cameos in nearly all Marvel movies. My favorite is his appearance as Willie Lumpkin, the postman who delivers mail to the Fantastic Four at the Baxter Building.
Stan Lee joined forces with Dan DeCarlo to create the comic strip Willie Lumpkin, comic strip designed to entertain in the "hinterlands" of the United States. his route was in the fictional town of Glenville. Stan was always looking for a way to break out of the comic book ghetto, and a successful syndicated strip was a good way to do it. The strip ran for a few years from 1951 until 1961. Later Stan used the name for the mailman who delivered to the Baxter Building in the pages of the Fantastic Four. Stan at last found the success he craved, but it was inside the ghetto, one he and his colleagues redesigned for a new audience and a new age.
William Lemuel Lumpkin became a not infrequent visitor in the Marvel Universe even revealing his superpower, the ability to wiggle his ears.
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