{"id":5000,"date":"2012-12-28T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T15:48:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T20:48:02","slug":"happy-90th-birthday-stan-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/28\/happy-90th-birthday-stan-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 90th birthday, Stan Lee!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friday is the 90th birthday for Stan Lee<\/b>, peerless purveyor of four-color fantasies, and it’s a day I’m pleased to commemorate here by sharing the cover of Comics Buyer’s Guide<\/i> #1258<\/b>, from fifteen years ago:<\/p>\n

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Marie Severin<\/b> drew the above cover for a special 75th birthday issue, which I organized along with the CBG<\/b><\/i><\/a> staff over the course of several months. We had solicited letters of congratulation for Stan in the issue \u2014 and we wound up with more than a thousand of them, including ones from former President George H.W. Bush<\/b> and Henry Winkler<\/b>. In addition to Marie’s wonderful cover, we also received and included congratulatory sketches from Joe Sinnott<\/b> and several other luminaries.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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\nI
\nhad interviewed Stan on the phone before, but I finally met him in a
\nSan Diego elevator the summer after this issue reached him. (I think we
\nsent several cases!) He was gracious and a real gentleman.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You can leave your greetings for Stan at his Twitter feed<\/b><\/a>. Happy birthday, Stan! Excelsior!<\/i><\/abbr><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday is the 90th birthday for Stan Lee, peerless purveyor of four-color fantasies, and it’s a day I’m pleased to commemorate here by sharing the cover of Comics Buyer’s Guide #1258, from fifteen years ago: Marie Severin drew the above cover for a special 75th birthday issue, which I organized along with the CBG staff … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6486,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/6486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}