Stan Lee gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

[Brazoo]

I think the stars are issued by a Hollywood commerce group. I think people petition for them and I think usually studios pay for the stars.

They're suppose to be for entertainment industry people, but I think others, like astronauts have also been given stars.

It's just a tourist thing - really - isn't it?

[ScottA]

There are 5 catagories for the HWOF as noted by the emblems on the stars.

Classic film camera representing motion pictures
Television set representing broadcast television
Phonograph record representing audio recording
Radio microphone representing broadcast radio
Comedy/tragedy masks representing theater/live performance (added in 1984)

While several honorees have multiple stars only Gene Autry has one in all 5 catagories.

[jwyblejr]

Yeah I realize that. I was wondering what Stan got it for.TV,movie or something else?

[samurainoir]

Looks like Stan Lee's star is for Movies.


Given the decades the man spent in Hollywood tilting at windmills before X-Men and Spider-man finally made it to the screen, I say give him his star. It's all politics and publicists anyways.

and start a petition for Kirby's posthumous star and whatever other accolades he more than deserves.

Just remember that Ditko wouldn't want one.

[Brazoo]

He got the Movie Camera symbol on his star.

Here's a link: Blog@Newsarama s Star on the Walk of Fame

EDIT - oops, samurai beat me to it!

[The Toyroom]

There are 5 catagories for the HWOF as noted by the emblems on the stars.

Classic film camera representing motion pictures
Television set representing broadcast television
Phonograph record representing audio recording
Radio microphone representing broadcast radio
Comedy/tragedy masks representing theater/live performance (added in 1984)

While several honorees have multiple stars only Gene Autry has one in all 5 catagories.

Goes to show you the HWOF is all about how much money you or your buddies can pony up to buy a star.....Stan Lee fits NONE of those categories

[samurainoir]

Just think of all the other Stan Lee creations that are no doubt heading to a theatre near you...

[The Toyroom]

Just think of all the other Stan Lee creations that are no doubt heading to a theatre near you...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...vage2099-1.jpg

Right there is proof that Stan Lee on his "own" without Kirby, Ditko, Heck, Colan, Romita, Buscema, et al. isn't very good at "creating" things....or at least not anymore....

[Brazoo]

Just think of all the other Stan Lee creations that are no doubt heading to a theatre near you...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...vage2099-1.jpg

Excelsior!

[PNGwynne]

At least he didn't get a TV one for "I Want to Be a Superhero"!

[ScottA]

Goes to show you the HWOF is all about how much money you or your buddies can pony up to buy a star.....Stan Lee fits NONE of those categories

My guess is he got in on the Marvel movies. But I read the committee can bend the rules if they want to. They did this for Ali and Magic Johnson.

[Marvelmania]

I'm a Stan Lee fan, always have been and probably always will be to some extent. Not because of what he did in the comic book biz, even for what he said he did or takes credit for but because I grew up a Marvel comic kid and he was the figure head of Marvel back then like it or not. When I think of or see Stan Lee I think of the old Marvel during the 70's and it brings back good childhood memories for me. It starts and ends there.

[Meule]

Sorry. Stan Lee CREATED the characters...the other guys just drew them.
The books would have been just as popular if drawn by Joe Shmoe. Spider-man got even BETTER when Ditko left and John Romita took over.

That's not to say Kirby and Ditko weren't talented, but come on. Lee was the brain behind everything. Without his ideas and stories, the artists would've had nothing to draw.

I'm a DC guy, actually I'm just a Batman guy, I couldn't care less about Marvel or Stan Lee, but even I know this is BS.

[babycyclops]

It's too bad Peter Boyle never got a star.

[ctc]

>they were a little different, but not for the things Lee gives himself credit for

I would say they were more different than you feel they were.... like I said; not a complete reinvention, but a definite step in a new direction given the standards of the day.

>Lee always gives that spiel about the characters having real problems. It's not evident at all in the early stories

I dunno; in Fantastic Four 9 you had the team taken out financially, which hadn’t been done before. And an early Spider Man had him seeing a shrink after getting beat. It was the little touches like that which grounded the characters and created the “hero with problems” ideal. At that time, Batman would never have gone to a shrink (although he probably should have) and Clark Kent never had to worry about getting fired, despite disappearing whenever a story happened. Stan added the idea that the heroes WEREN’T gods; that they had to live WITHIN the world, and the world would have tangible effects on them. Earlier heroes were forces of nature. They didn’t have to care about the mundane bits, they were above it. (And no; I’m not saying one is inherently better than the other. They’re just different ways of telling stories.)

My favourite example: the original Phantom Lady. Her disguise was conspicuous nudity. Not even a mask, and NOBODY ever figured out who she was. Not her boyfriend.... not her FATHER ‘fer Pete’s sake! There’s even a story where she rescues her boyfriend who notices how similar she is to his girl.... right down to the same perfume.... but he doesn’t figure it out. (I guess she likes ‘em stupid.) Even Supes wore glasses.... But that was the way it was done; the secret identity wasn’t nearly as important as the punch-up. And over time the fight became the whole point, to wit the fiddly-bits were relegated to base trappings. The Marvel characters started using them in the stories. Hence the aforementioned “problems.”

>In the early days they never really say where the stories take place.

Flipping through some of the Marvel Essentials, they mention New York right of the bat. I think the problem is it was drawn as every generic city in a superhero book.... but that’s more a state of the art for the day thing I suspect. (Heck, in a Wolverine comic he visited Windsor, which looked suspiciously like Marvel N.Y.... even though we have relatively few buildings over ten stories.)

>or at least not anymore

I think that’s his problem. At one time he was inventive, but he’s still working with the ideas that were new 40 years ago; and they’re not so new any more. So you get really weird, really shallow stuff that has whatever’s currently hip slapped onto an old framework.

Don C.