10 Questions for Stan Lee

The minence grise of comic books Stan Lee on Presidents, heroes and why zombies are stupid

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At age 89, you're writing a new series, Stan Lee's Mighty 7 , in which you're a character training aliens to be superheroes. There haven't been any iconic new superheroes in decades. Is it that hard to think them up?
Very hard. But that's what I and the other writers have to do. This is probably the world's first reality comic book, because I'm a real person in the book and there will be other real people and places and incidents. Reality TV is doing so well, I figured, why not model this book after that?

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