Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters & Marvels

Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters & Marvels

A photograph of two men, both of whom are wearing glasses, looking at the viewer, and standing on a yellow-and-black-checkered floor next to a wall of comic books

Original DVD cover (2002)
Directed by Scott Zakarin
Produced by Peter Jaysen
Eric Mittleman
Mark Panik
Rich Tackenberg
Scott Zakarin
Starring Stan Lee
Kevin Smith
Cinematography Peter Ney
Edited by Mark Panik
Production
company
Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Video (DVD in the United States)
Egmont Group (DVD in Finland)
Nelonen (TV in Finland)
Release dates
  • May 7, 2002 (United States)
Running time
 95 minutes
Country United States
Language English
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Winston-Salem Journal [1]

Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters & Marvels is a 2002 American documentary film produced by Creative Light Entertainment consisting of an interview of Marvel Comics publisher Stan Lee by film director Kevin Smith.[2] The two talk about Lee's life,[3] the 2002 Spider-Man film, and Spider-Man comics.[4] Lee refers to Marvel Comics character J. Jonah Jameson as "the version so many people had of me."[5] The interview was filmed in February 2002[6] in Santa Monica, California at a comic book store.[7] The result was a nearly two-hour-long film.[8] The documentary was included in a four-disc release of the 2002 Spider-Man film.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Clodfelter, Tim (May 3, 2002). "Some Episodes of Spider-Man". Winston-Salem Journal. p. 1.
  2. ↑ Rivero, Enrique (May 5, 2002). "Comic Book Legend Featured in Latest DVD". Video Store 24 (19) (Duluth, Minnesota). p. 12.
  3. ↑ Lynch, Stephen (June 2, 2002). "Spider-Man Creator Gets a Superhero's Welcome: Stan Lee Fans Marvel at the Comic-Book Legend". Orange County Register. Retrieved April 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ Nichols, Peter M. (May 3, 2002). "How Spidey was Hatched". The New York Times. p. 31.
  5. ↑ Drucker, Aaron (2012). Robert Moses Peaslee, Robert G. Weiner, ed. "Spider-Man: MENACE!!! Stan Lee, Censorship and the 100-Issue Revolution". Web-Spinning Heroics: Critical Essays on the History and Meaning of Spider-Man (McFarland & Company): 91. ISBN 0786491671.
  6. ↑ Russo, Tom (May 26, 2002). "With Superheroic Appeal". The Boston Globe. p. L22.
  7. ↑ King, Susan (June 1, 2002). "Roy Rogers Flick Makes It to DVD". Deseret News. p. E7.
  8. ↑ Spector, Josh (April 12, 2002). "'Mutants' Finds Legs as 'Spider' Companion: 'Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters & Marvels' will be Packaged with 'Spider-Man'". The Hollywood Reporter 372 (50)). p. 1.
  9. ↑ McDonald, Patrick (November 14, 2002). "Caught in a Magic Web". The Advertiser. p. 58.

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