Stan Lee Once Said Of His Wife: ‘She Was the Girl I’d Been Drawing All My Life’
Sadly, Marvel co-creator Stan Lee died yesterday. The man was the creator of some of the most beloved characters we know, including Spider-Man, Iron Man, and all the X-Men.
His wife of 30 years, Joan Lee, opened up to People magazine about their long romance — which started when they first met in 1947. But at the time, Joan was married to someone else.
“I had only known him 24 hours when we decided to get married,” she said of her first marriage. “In many aspects it was a great marriage, but after living with him a year I was finding him sort of boring…”
Stan, however, was a different story. “He wore a marvelous floppy hat and scarf and spouted Omar Khayyam when he took me for a hamburger at Prexy’s,” she said. “He reminded me of that beautiful man, [British actor] Leslie Howard.”
After two weeks of dating, Lee proposed to Joan. He said, “But first I had to send her to Reno for a divorce.”
“There was one girl I drew,” Stan once said to The Hollywood Reporter. “One body and face and hair. It was my idea of what a girl should be. The perfect woman.” He added that when he saw Joan in real life, he decided it was fate. “She was the girl I had been drawing all my life.”
And now we’re in tears…
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