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 * 1) Born under the name Stanley Martin Lieber
 * 2) Born inNew York City,New York
 * 3) Born December 28, 1922
 * 4) Will Be 89 this December
 * 5) as a teen he was a very eager reader and enjoyed writing
 * 6) Dewitt Clinton High School- graduated at 16 ½ years old
 * 7) Part time jobs writing obituaries, and press releases
 * 8) after graduating he joined the WPA Federal Theater Project
 * 9) First published work in CaptainAmericacomics #3 in 1941
 * 10) Uncle was the brother in-law of comic-book publisher Martin Goodman, who got him the job as an assistant at the new Timely comics divisions of Goodman’s company
 * 11) Timely eventually became Marvel Comics in the 1960s
 * 12) Used the name Stan Lee as a pseudonym in the Captain America filler, later he adopted it as legal name
 * 13) Eventually he started making full comics instead of just fillers, fans called this time period the Golden age of comics when he created the characters Destroyer, Jack Frost, and Father Time
 * 14) After his creative partners both left in 1941 Goodman name him interim editor at just 19 years old, he then became editor and editor-and-chief, and art director, then 1972 took Goodman’s spot as publisher
 * 15) 1942 he entered the army and served in the signal corps stateside, wrote manuals, training films, slogans, occasionally cartoons
 * 16) He returned from military service in 1945 to his job at Timely Comics
 * 17) Mid 1950s the company became known as Atlas Comics, he wrote stories about romance, westerns, humor, sci-fi, medieval adventure, horror, and suspense.
 * 18) After contemplating quitting his job, he was assigned to create a comic superhero team in response to the DC Comics Justice League
 * 19) He created superheroes that had flawed humanity, written to center around teens, previously superheroes were idealistically perfect people
 * 20) Lee was asked in 1971 for the Department of Health, Education and welfare to create a story about the dangers of drugs, sold very well and was praised for socially conscious efforts, also created comics addressing discrimination, prejudice, and stories with sophisticated words to encourage the learning of new words