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After a while,
Joe and Jack left Timely Comics and the publisher looked around
at his vast empire, and he saw this one skinny kid
with a broom in one hand and a typewriter in the other and he said,
"Hey, where's the rest of my staff?" And I said, "I'm it." He said, "Somebody's gotta
edit these books." He said, "Stan, can you hold down the job
till I get somebody else?" And I said, "Okay, I'll take it." So, he went off into the outside world
to seek another editor, and I was now Stan Lee,
boy editor pro tem. And that was it, I became the editor,
and I think he forgot to hire somebody because I remained the editor. So at 17, I was really running the place. And since I was my own writer
and my own editor, I didn't have much to change. So I was able to get these stories
moving very fast
Joe and Jack left Timely Comics and the publisher looked around
at his vast empire, and he saw this one skinny kid
with a broom in one hand and a typewriter in the other and he said,
"Hey, where's the rest of my staff?" And I said, "I'm it." He said, "Somebody's gotta
edit these books." He said, "Stan, can you hold down the job
till I get somebody else?" And I said, "Okay, I'll take it." So, he went off into the outside world
to seek another editor, and I was now Stan Lee,
boy editor pro tem. And that was it, I became the editor,
and I think he forgot to hire somebody because I remained the editor. So at 17, I was really running the place. And since I was my own writer
and my own editor, I didn't have much to change. So I was able to get these stories
moving very fast
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After a while,
Joe and Jack left Timely Comics
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and the publisher looked around
at his vast empire,
00:00:08.299 --> 00:00:11.385
and he saw this one skinny kid
with a broom in one hand
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and a typewriter in the other
00:00:12.845 --> 00:00:15.515
and he said,
"Hey, where's the rest of my staff?"
00:00:15.515 --> 00:00:16.682
And I said, "I'm it."
00:00:16.808 --> 00:00:19.185
He said, "Somebody's gotta
edit these books."
00:00:19.185 --> 00:00:22.396
He said, "Stan, can you hold down the job
till I get somebody else?"
00:00:22.396 --> 00:00:24.398
And I said, "Okay, I'll take it."
00:00:24.398 --> 00:00:28.194
So, he went off into the outside world
to seek another editor,
00:00:28.194 --> 00:00:31.028
and I was now Stan Lee,
boy editor pro tem.
00:00:32.365 --> 00:00:36.119
And that was it, I became the editor,
and I think he forgot to hire somebody
00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:38.001
because I remained the editor.
00:00:38.001 --> 00:00:40.581
So at 17, I was really running the place.
00:00:41.624 --> 00:00:45.999
And since I was my own writer
and my own editor,
00:00:45.999 --> 00:00:47.421
I didn't have much to change.
00:00:47.421 --> 00:00:50.967
So I was able to get these stories
moving very fast.
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Movie Summary
100 years of dreaming. 100 years of creating. 100 years of Stan Lee.
