#ThrowbackThursday: Stan Lee on the Cover of Writer’s Digest in 1947

Nowadays, you can't watch a Marvel movie without a cameo by Stan Lee: As co-creator of The Fantastic Four, Spiderman,X-Men,Avengersand more, he's as much of a Marvel celeb as any comic-book character.

We featured him in Writer's Digest in 1947—long before the invention of The Fantastic Four in 1961 propelled Lee to major fame—while was was working as an editor at Timely Comics, a comic-book publishing group that, years later, would became Marvel.

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Baihley Grandison is the assistant editor of Writer's Digest and a freelance writer. Follow her on Twitter @baihleyg, where she mostly tweets about writing (Team Oxford Comma!), food (HUMMUS FOR PRESIDENT, PEOPLE), and Random Conversations With Her Mother.