The Stan Lee story
By: Roy Thomas
Contributors: Lee, Stan, 1922-2018, writer of foreword, signer; Taschen (Firm)
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: History; Cartoonists; Biography; Comic books, strips; History and criticism; Marvel Comics Group
Notes: Issued in an edition of 1000 copies, plus 200 artists' proofs, all signed by Stan Lee.

Half-title with portrait of Stan Lee on verso.

Includes tipped-in facsimiles of letters and comic books, as well as separately bound reissue of Stan Lee's Secrets behind the comics (1947).

Rare Book copy: Artist proof no. 110, signed by Stan Lee.

Rare Book copy: Housed with white cloth gloves issued with the book, as well as a section of the cardboard box in which it was delivered.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 440-441).

Gift; Benedict Taschen; 2019.

In blue publisher's binding, with centerpiece illustration depicting Stan Lee as Spiderman on upper cover and centerpiece portrait of Stan Lee on lower cover; heads of comic book characters depicted all over covers and endpapers; issued in acrylic slipcase with cutouts at center.