Stan Lee’s Marvel-lous Cameos The comic-book guru’s many screen outings.
Greetings, Spidey fans! Boy, have the whizzkids in the bouncing Empire bullpen cooked up a treat for you! With the news that the stunning, sensational septuagenarian Stan Lee – the co-creator of Spider-Man, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, Daredevil, the X-Men and many, many more – is set to appear in Iron Man 2 as Larry King for his customary Marvel movie cameo, we thought we’d take a look at his run of scintillating, charismatic bit parts to date. As the great man himself might say, Make his Marvel! ‘Nuff said, True Believers! WORDS CHRIS HEWITT
Stan Lee’s Marvel-lous Cameos X-Men Stan The Man is: Hot Dog Vendor
What Happens? Newly mutated Senator Kelly (Bruce Davison) walks out of the ocean onto a beach full of stunned onlookers, who can’t quite believe the gloopy, morphing, watery sight that greets them. And who’s that old geezer running the hot dog stand, with his mouth agape? Why, it’s Stan The Man! And his mouth’s probably agape because he didn’t actually create Kelly – that honour went to Chris Claremont and John Byrne…
Wink-Wink Rating There’s no leering close-up of Lee, no jolly japes, not even a subtle nod that the Creator Supreme is standing amongst us. If Michael Bay had directed this, you can almost guarantee that Lee would have squirted mustard on someone while distracted, and then had his leg humped by Senator Kelly. Thank goodness for Singer’s restraint.
