TorontoSun.com: Stan [Lee] and deliver

TorontoSun.com - Movies - Stan and deliver: "Stan Lee, the legendary creator of Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk and The Fantastic Four, has worked in the comic-book business for 67 years.

It used to feel silly, like he was wasting his time. That is why the native New Yorker -- son of Romanian immigrants who struggled during the Great Depression -- changed his birth name. Stanley Martin Lieber became something short, sweet and anonymous when he became a comics writer, when he started doing frivolous things.

'I used to be embarrassed doing what I was doing,' Lee confides to the Toronto Sun. 'Other people were doing really important things and here I was writing these ridiculous stories and wasting time.'

But now, at 84 and still creating comic heroes with the same boyish zeal he had as a youngster at Timely publishing in New York in 1940, Stan Lee is proud."