1 Stan Lee and George Mair, Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee (New York: Fireside, 2002), 175.
2 Danny Fingeroth and Roy Thomas, eds., The Stan Lee Universe (Raleigh, NC: TwoMorrows, 2011), 45.
3 Ibid., 41.
4 Mike Bourne, Changes magazine, April 15, 1970.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Jordan Raphael and Tom Spurgeon, Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003), 123.
8 Mark Evanier, interview with the author, August 2018.
9 Ibid.
10 Sean Howe, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (New York: Harper, 2013), 91.
11 Mark Evanier, Kirby: King of Comics (New York: Abrams Comic Arts, 2017), 145.
12 Lee and Mair, Excelsior!, 180.
13 Robin Green, “‘Face Front. Clap Your Hands! You’re On The Winning Team!,’” Rolling Stone, September 16, 1971.
14 Roy Thomas, The Marvel Age of Comics: 1961–1978 (Cologne: Taschen, 2017), 120–124.
15 “Stan Lee Talkshow 1968-Part 1,” YouTube video, 16:48, posted by “misterX1964,” September 7, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV5NEU-l9bM.
16 Stan Lee, interview with the author, March 7, 2017.