This book was received as an ARC from St. Martin's Press in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

Being a huge fan of Stan Lee and all of the Marvel comics, I was excited to dig into this book and learn more about Stan Lee's career and how he became one of the most influential multimedia moguls. I especially liked this book because Fingeroth took the approach in examining every aspect of Stan Lee's career including his personal endeavors and all the details in between and held nothing back from the reader. He also included excerpts from interviews with Stan Lee to verify that all the content is the truth and the road to greatness was definitely a tough road for him including proving to everyone that he is the real deal and not someone who steals someone else's work. We have a few biographies of Stan Lee and with content from the man himself, this book will sure do well at our library.

We will consider adding this title to our biography collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.

I have been reading comics for over 50 years and predominantly I have Stan Lee to thank for many years of pleasure, I am not really a fan of biographies but this book has made me rethink that, it’s an excellent telling of the life of a man who quite literally changed the world (and yes I know it’s only comics).

Excelsior Stan