10 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Stan Lee
8. He Nearly Quit The Whole Thing Before It Had Even Got Started
By the time the 1960s had begun, Stan Lee had had enough.
He was tired of writing sci-fi inspired parables and romance stories and had come to the decision that he needed a new career, and it was only when DC found surprise success with The Flash and then the Justice League that his publisher Martin Goodman asked Stan to come up with something that could cash in on the sudden upturn in superhero based comics.
Not wanting to have to dumb things down and pretty sure that he was going to walk anyway, it was at his wife's Joan's suggestion that he just went ahead and wrote what he wanted to, how he wanted to. The resulting book was the Fantastic Four and the rest is, as they say, history.
The public ate it up, loving how these characters seemed more human than DC's and how they had as many flaws as the next man. From here, Lee and longtime collaborators Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko went on to create some of the longest lasting and most popular comics in Marvel's history.