So, the other night, while we were having our Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD discussion, we all got the idea to write about our Favorite Boyfriends, and I decided to write about the most important person in all of Marvel Comics (as far as I’m concerned), Stan Lee, who is pretty much the father of Marvel Comics, along with some other guys like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, who did a lot of the earliest artwork. But when it came to dreaming up the characters and writing the stories, almost always (at first), it was Stan Lee.
I remind you that we got this idea to write these things about our Favorite Boyfriends over a week ago now, and since then, Tessie and Tillie have told you about their Boyfriends, but I sort of got delayed. You see, The Man has a lot of comics that are in boxes, and Miss Chrissy and The Man got the idea to go through and organize some of these comics over the last few days, and as soon as I saw those boxes being opened, I could smell the old newsprint, and was irresistibly drawn to what they were doing. So I settled down on the floor, and it seems I have spent the better part of the last several days reading and reading so many comics I never even knew existed, back when I lived in The Hoard. What a great surprise!
Miss Chrissy once mentioned that she has always been a big fan of the original Star Trek, and thought she had seen the episodes, but then years and years later, she was watching TV and suddenly there was an episode of this 20 or 30 year old show that she had never seen before! 
At least, she didn’t remember it. And it was kind of that way for me too, this past week, suddenly discovering all these comics that were really OLD comics, but they were NEW to me.
So first of all, I apologize for being so late to the party. But at the same time, this experience has provided me with an excellent opportunity to explain to you why Stan Lee is one of my Favorite Boyfriends. Offered into evidence: this picture of me with a very special comic I found among all the others in the boxes. As you can see, it’s called the “No-Prize Book,” but it’s not actually a comic at all, in the usual sense, because mostly it’s a collection of all the times Stan Lee and his whole group made tremendous boo-boo’s while making the comics. For instance, on one page, Doctor Octopus is fighting Spider-Man, and he says, “And now, SUPER-MAN, I grow bored with this game!” Wh…what?? Super-Man? Huh? BIG boo-boo!
On the cover, there’s a figure that sorta looks like Doctor Doom, but guess what? It’s actually Stan! And by the way, he’s upside down. (In my picture here, he’s right side up, but I’m just sitting with the book upside down, so you can see that it’s Stan.) And this sort of perfectly illustrates one of the main things I most love about him—it’s very clear that he is never afraid to joke around, and poke fun, at even himself.
Miss Chrissy is always telling people that one of the things she loves most about The Man is that he has “a sense of humor.” Well, if Miss Chrissy wasn’t already married to The Man, I think she would like to consider Stan Lee as a Boyfriend, because he apparently has a great sense of humor! (Of course, he’s MY boyfriend, so she can’t have him…)
Having a sense of humor is something that makes anyone so much more enjoyable to be around. And I think having a sense of humor also makes you feel a lot younger than you really are. Because if I’m not mistaken, Stan Lee is now about 90 years old, which, for a human, is pretty old. You can see by looking at him that he has gray hair, and wrinkles, which are big clues that he’s not young, but you know what? He also always has this big smile on his face, and if you ask me, anyone with a big smile on their face like that is never truly going to look old.
Another way that Stan Lee stays young and fun is that he almost always makes a “cameo” appearance in the Marvel movies. He’s done some pretty funny ones that I’ve seen so far (and some I’ve only read about), but probably one of my favorites is when he was in the Fantastic Four movie, and he played Willie Lumpkin, the mailman that brings the Fantastic Four all their fan mail (and it’s a huge sack of fan mail!!). I read about Willie Lumpkin the mailman in quite a few of the early Fantastic Four comics, so he’s sort of almost like one of the family to me. So it makes perfect sense that Stan Lee would play him in the movies.
Whenever you see Stan in a movie, or on TV, or doing an interview, or whatever, he’s always smiling and laughing, and I don’t think it’s fake. I think he really enjoys everything he does, and everything he has, and 
he’s a very happy person. That’s why I consider him one of my Favorite Boyfriends. It’s no fun to hang around with people who are dark and depressing. I think if I was ever lucky enough to actually meet Stan Lee and hang around with him, it would be a lot of fun.
There would be so many questions I would want to ask him! What a brain to pick! Think of all the great comic book characters that sprang from his brain! How did he get all these terrific ideas? Are there any more new characters lurking around in there? Are there characters we haven’t seen yet, but who would make the Marvel Universe a more colorful and exciting place than it already is?
So, in conclusion: Being fun, and creative, and loving life and having a great sense of humor. That’s what I like about Stan, and why I consider him my Boyfriend, And that’s why wrinkles and gray hair will never matter to me. No matter how old he is, Stan Lee will always be young and heart.
And he will always be my Boyfriend.
