Kevin Smith Interviews Stan the Man

Comic Book Resources: "Last week, CBR news caught a screening of 'Spider-Man 2' at the world famous Grauman's Chinese theater in Hollywood, California. It's a safe bet that every audience member in the packed house had already seen the film, but that's not why the comics fans came out in droves that night: They were there to see the Q&A with Spidey creator Stan Lee himself and special guest host Kevin Smith.

The film and the comics legend both were introduced by a hapless host, who was admittedly a good sport when the audience chided her about her marked ignorance of comics culture, epitomized by her butchering of the pronunciation of Magneto.

In his remarks before the film, Stan revealed that the now-legendary phrase 'With great power comes great responsibility' came about as a happy accident. 'I had written the story, and I always put the dialogue in after the drawings are done. So I wrote the final caption, and there was a little space left over, and it looked like it needed a few more words,' Stan said. 'It filled the space perfectly! I didn't realize it was gonna be like 'Friends, Romans, Countrymen' someday.'

The cameo-hungry comics legend lamented his scant few seconds of screen time in the second installment of the Spider-Man movie franchise, but Stan did dangle a few breadcrumbs about his Hitchcockian cameos in the upcoming 'Spider-Man 3' and 'Fantastic Four 2.'"