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There was a time
when Spider-Man received a check as a reward for something he had done,
made out to Spider-Man and he went to a bank to cash it
in his Spider-Man costume and the teller said,
"Well, I can't cash this check, - "I need identification."
- (WOMAN LAUGHS) And he said, "Oh, I'm wearing
a Spider-Man costume." He said, "Anybody could wear
a Spider-Man costume." He was never able to cash the check. I wanted those books,
more than anything else, to be fun. And I wanted everything in them
to attract the readers' attention and to cause the readers to talk. And I wanted to do whatever I could to set our books aside
and apart from the rest. I was just having fun. Anything I thought of I said,
"That's a good idea. "I'm gonna write, 'The world's
greatest comic.' What the hell." INTERVIEWER: You describe what you call
the wild wondrous world of Marvel Comics
when Spider-Man received a check as a reward for something he had done,
made out to Spider-Man and he went to a bank to cash it
in his Spider-Man costume and the teller said,
"Well, I can't cash this check, - "I need identification."
- (WOMAN LAUGHS) And he said, "Oh, I'm wearing
a Spider-Man costume." He said, "Anybody could wear
a Spider-Man costume." He was never able to cash the check. I wanted those books,
more than anything else, to be fun. And I wanted everything in them
to attract the readers' attention and to cause the readers to talk. And I wanted to do whatever I could to set our books aside
and apart from the rest. I was just having fun. Anything I thought of I said,
"That's a good idea. "I'm gonna write, 'The world's
greatest comic.' What the hell." INTERVIEWER: You describe what you call
the wild wondrous world of Marvel Comics
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There was a time
when Spider-Man received a check
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as a reward for something he had done,
made out to Spider-Man
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and he went to a bank to cash it
in his Spider-Man costume
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and the teller said,
"Well, I can't cash this check,
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- "I need identification."
- (WOMAN LAUGHS)
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And he said, "Oh, I'm wearing
a Spider-Man costume."
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He said, "Anybody could wear
a Spider-Man costume."
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He was never able to cash the check.
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I wanted those books,
more than anything else, to be fun.
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And I wanted everything in them
to attract the readers' attention
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and to cause the readers to talk.
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And I wanted to do whatever I could
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to set our books aside
and apart from the rest.
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I was just having fun.
00:00:49.131 --> 00:00:51.259
Anything I thought of I said,
"That's a good idea.
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"I'm gonna write, 'The world's
greatest comic.' What the hell."
00:00:54.929 --> 00:00:59.392
INTERVIEWER: You describe what you call
the wild wondrous world of Marvel Comics.
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Movie Summary
100 years of dreaming. 100 years of creating. 100 years of Stan Lee.
