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Oil City News reports on a Wyoming university exhibit of the late Lee's various developments for Marvel and other sources, and he contributed some items to them in the years before his death. It says:

Flesher estimates that the exhibit contains approximately 300,000 pieces of memorabilia. And while it may be easy for some to quantify Lee’s life and legacy through the art he produced, the exhibit goes far beyond Lee’s comics. Flesher stressed that the exhibit is not an exhibit of Lee’s characters or the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

“While the exhibit certainly has some of his works, because you can’t tell the story of Stan Lee without telling the story of his art, there’s a lot more than just that,” Flesher said. “We have a lot of fan mail that he received over the years; we have letters and journal entries; we have early photographs of him, including some from when he was in the military. … There’s really a lot.”

Also featured in the exhibit are pieces of history from Lee’s early comics career with Timely Comics, the family-run enterprise that would eventually become the juggernaut known as Marvel Comics. Visitors of the exhibit will also be able to read many of Lee’s overlooked political cartoons.

“A lot of people don’t know he ever even made political cartoons,” Flesher said.

Maybe not, but I wouldn't be surprised if, unlike many of today's ultra-leftist ideologues, Lee's were far from as heavy-handed as what's seen today coming from the woke crowd of the 2020s.

Flesher noted that one of the few parts of Lee’s life that isn’t immortalized in the exhibit is his family, as the writer was especially guarded and private regarding family matters.

And with good reason, if we're to recall the time the left-wing "journalist" Abraham Riesman published a whole tear-down book about Lee's history that relied on data provided by one of Lee's traitorous business managers, who was later charged with elderly abuse. Lee's relatives should decidedly be left out of this, to protect their dignity.

Additionally, “Stan Lee: Beyond the Book” highlights the impact that Lee had not just on culture at large, but also on an individual level.

“We have a map that shows all the countries he received fan mail from, and it’s really remarkable,” Flesher said. “It shows how Stan’s stories impacted lives in every corner of the Earth, and how that impact was different in so many different countries.”

No doubt, they had positive influence in their time, but today, after all the destruction inflicted upon them by Joe Quesada and Bill Jemas, what positive impact do they still have? This is why Marvel should've been retired in the early 2000s, and it's very sad Jemas had to play a part in pulling them out of bankruptcy, all for the sake of the woke atrocity Lee's products sank into since. If people like Jemas hadn't made the effort, and fans hadn't acted like it was a grand emergency Marvel was on the financial brink, they'd probably have shuttered business by the mid-2000s, and the damage would've been minimized. Something the exhibition curators in Wyoming likely aren't discussing at all.

So great there's a history exhibit of Lee's career. But yet again it's a terrible shame nobody wants to raise the issue of how his resume fell victim to Orwellian PC, including - but not limited to - the victimization of Mary Jane Watson. Does anybody really think a bad situation will be turned around for the better if modern issues are left out?

Labels: exhibitions, good writers, history, marvel comics, politics