1 Stan Lee, interview with the author, March 7, 2017.
2 Stan Lee and George Mair, Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee (New York: Fireside, 2002), 19.
3 Research of J. L. Mast; Bob Batchelor, Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).
4 Research of J. L. Mast.
5 Lee and Mair, Excelsior!, 10–11.
6 Lee, interview with the author, March 7, 2017.
7 Research of J. L. Mast.
8 Lee and Mair, Excelsior!, 7; Larry Lieber, interview with the author, December 28, 2018.
9 Lee, interview with the author, March 7, 2017.
10 Jordan Raphael and Tom Spurgeon, Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003), 4.
11 Lee, interview with the author, March 7, 2017.
12 Larry Lieber, interview with the author, December 16, 2016.
13 Stan Lee, interview on Yesterdayland.com (website discontinued).
14 Ibid.
15 Research of J. L. Mast.
16 Lee, interview with the author, March 7, 2017.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Lee, interview on Yesterdayland.
20 Lee and Mair, Excelsior!, 12.
21 Mike Bourne, “Stan Lee: The Marvel Bard,” Changes, April 15, 1970.
22 Stan Lee, interview with Barbara Bogaev, Fresh Air on NPR, June 4, 2002.
23 Lee, interview on Yesterdayland.
24 Lee, interview with the author, March 7, 2017.
25 Lee and Mair, Excelsior!, 12.
26 Ibid., 13.
27 Ibid., 19.
28 Ibid.
29 Lieber, interview, December 28, 2018.
30 Lee, interview with the author, April 10, 2006.
31 Lee, interview with the author, March 7, 2017.
32 Lee and Mair, Excelsior!, 10.
33 Gerard J. Pellison and James A. Garvey III, The Castle on the Parkway: The Story of New York City’s DeWitt Clinton High School and Its Extraordinary Influence on American Life (Scarsdale, NY: Hutch Press, 2009).
34 DeWitt Clinton High School 1939 yearbook.
35 Batchelor, Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel, 12.
36 FOOM #17, March 1977, interview with David Anthony Kraft, 7–8.
37 Lee, interview with the author, March 7, 2017.
38 Ibid.
39 Raphael and Spurgeon, Stan Lee, 6.
40 Lee and Mair, Excelsior!, 15.
41 FOOM.
42 Lee and Mair, Excelsior!, 18–19.
43 Lee, interview with the author, March 7, 2017.
44 FOOM, 8.
45 Research of J. L. Mast.
46 Lee, interview with the author, March 7, 2017.
47 Ibid.
48 FOOM, 8.
49 Sean Howe, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (New York: Harper, 2013), 19.