Stan Lee says 'Spider-Man,' other comics fight bigotry

Stan Lee says 'Spider-Man,' other comics fight bigotry (from azcentral.com: "If comic book characters like the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk and Spider-Man seem a tad different, their creator Stan Lee says that's the point.

'The thing I had in mind was to make it a story against bigotry of all sorts, because here were people who were certainly different than everybody else, but they were good, they were trying to do the right thing,' Lees tells the San Francisco Chronicle in Sunday's editions.

'But as so often happens in real life, if you have a different religion, a different country, a different sexual orientation, whatever the difference is, people - not all people, but it happens - are going to dislike you, distrust you, fear you.' "