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Stan Lee and Excelsior!

Adam Draper
Feb 24, 2021
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Stan Lee was a large influence on my life through the characters he created at Marvel: Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk, Spiderman… I mean pretty much all of them were designed by him.

I was fortunate to get to meet Stan Lee a few years ago before he passed. I sat right next to him, and he said “You know why I used the word “Excelsior” at the end of all my letters?”

“It was because I found that the competition was always imitating my sign offs and using them. So, I said I’m going to get one expression that they’re not going to know what it means, and they won’t know how to spell it!”

I just loved that. The man was a pioneer in so many ways. I’m sad he passed away, but I recently decided that I would sign off my emails with Excelsior!

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Bleu Blakslee
Jun 12

love that- memorable and fun

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Josh Lopez
Jun 6

These are some new and approved Stan Lee’s. I hold several of this collection and a poster size signed 1:1. Enjoy😎

https://opensea.io/collection/stan-lee-genesis

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