Stan Lee - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:30:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Stan Lee - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Spider v. snake in an EXCLUSIVE excerpt from The Amazing Spider-Man Classic Newspaper Comics https://comicsxf.com/2025/09/30/amazing-spiderman-classic-newspaper-comics/ Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54311 The Rattler was a snake-man villain created by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr. for The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip that ran in newspapers. The owner of Reptile World (dig that cool sandwich board), Henry Bingham relied on an experimental anti-venom to save his life and give him powers he used for, what else, crime....

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]]> 54311 Norrin Radd, The Silver Surfer https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/17/norrin-radd-silver-surfer/ Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33754 GOLD SILVER BRONZE The Sentinel of the Spaceways, weilder of the mighty power cosmic, was once Norrin Radd, a humanoid alien from the planet Zenn-La who gave up his life and love to save his world from the planet-eater Galactus. After many years of loyal service as Galactus’ herald, the Surfer leads the devourer to...

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]]> 33754 Revisiting Bygone Eras in Captain America Anniversary Tribute https://comicsxf.com/2021/03/17/revisiting-bygone-eras-in-captain-america-anniversary-tribute/ Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=23000 Revisited comics a-plenty in Captain America’s 80th year in Captain America Anniversary Tribute, with credits below and letters by Joe Caramagna. In September, Marvel released a special 45th anniversary edition of 1975’s Giant-Size X-Men #1 in which modern artists re-created the seminal comic one page at a time. According to comics sales tracker Comichron, the...

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]]> 23000 Why, Will: Let Stan Lee rest https://comicsxf.com/2020/08/10/why-will-let-stan-lee-rest/ Mon, 10 Aug 2020 20:25:58 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=7496 Heroes die. We must be ready to let them go. The Splash Stanley Martin Lieber was born Dec. 28, 1922. He died Nov. 12, 2018. In the 95 years in between, Stan Lee was an entertainer, a creator, a publisher, an entrepreneur, a charmer, a bit of a grifter, a figurehead, a lovable scamp and...

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