True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
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| Author | Josephine Riesman |
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| Language | English |
| Published | 2021 |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House |
| Publication place | United States |
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| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 978-0-593-13571-6 |
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee is a biography of Stan Lee written by Josephine Riesman.
Lee, who died in 2018, was a comic book writer, editor, and publisher. Riesman, a comic book fan, had previously written a number of articles about comic books for Vulture.com,[1] and her profile of Lee went viral. The article concerning, in part, the degree of input Lee had in the creation of Marvel Comics superheroes during the Silver Age of Comic Books.[2]
True Believer was written as a followup and is a full biography of Lee's life. For the biography, Riesman interviewed Lee's surviving family members, former coworkers and business partners, and assistants who worked with his collaborators.[3] Riesman said the book was not intended to be a hatchet job but instead examines controversies in the comic book business, many of which have no proof either way, such as who created which characters.[4] This is partly because the history of early comic book companies was not preserved, and partly because the Marvel Method of comic book creation left authorship murky.[5]