The day we stalked Stan Lee: Share your personal stories about comic conventions and the people you met. 0

[grapeape]

Comic Art related a must but cool to mention artist, writer, celebrity and definitely original art that you saw from any year or con. Was there something you saw that pushed you into a full blown art addict like myself?

Lets have fun. This is for the benefit of those who’ve gone but can’t go now(Covid) and also for those who have had limited or no access to cons.

 

Edited March 18, 2021 by grapeape

[grapeape]

In 1990 I attended a comic con in Las Vegas at the Sahara Hotel and Casino. In attendance was Stan Lee and Todd McFarlane.

Practically had Stan all to ourselves my brother and I. We took tons of pics. Now my brother is the biggest Spider-Man and Stan Lee fan alive. We were eating lunch at a diner there and Stan was at the counter eating lunch and drinking coffee. When he left my brother had a mad idea.

”I want his coffee cup! I’m going to have him sign it.”

😳 WTF ?

He asks the busboy for the cup and he says,” we can’t give you the cup you want a to go cup?”

Uh oh

No problem my brother takes out five bucks and says let me keep that cup on the counter. So the busboy took the money and gave my brother the cup.

So now we track down Stan and relay what “we’ve” done and what “we” want. Stan looks at my brother and says, “ you’re certifiable, a looney.”

Stan signed it to his #1 fan haha. My brother to this day has that signed personal note coffee cup in a display case. This is back before Stans “handlers” had him signing tube socks and t shirts for X dollars per.

We had so much access to Stan because it was a one off con, and Todd McFarlane was there.

OK here comes the art part but hang in there. Ok we are standing in line to have Todd sign our copies of Spider-Man 1. There’s a gorgeous girl behind the booth and my brother is running game big time. Turned out he was hitting on Todd McFarlane’s wife 

At that table Todd had art pages and I believe a few covers in the $700 area? I had 0 knowledge of original art so we didn’t even investigate further 😔 

Anyways a great con obviously I treasured meeting Stan and Todd for the first time. That was maybe the first imprint in my mind of the art behind the published comic: by 1996 I was fully aboard the train.

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12 minutes ago, grapeape said:

In 1990 I attended a comic con in Las Vegas at the Sahara Hotel and Casino. In attendance was Stan Lee and Todd McFarlane.

Practically had Stan all to ourselves my brother and I. We took tons of pics. Now my brother is the biggest Spider-Man and Stan Lee fan alive. We were eating lunch at a diner there and Stan was at the counter eating lunch and drinking coffee. When he left my brother had a mad idea.

”I want his coffee cup! I’m going to have him sign it.”

😳 WTF ?

He asks the busboy for the cup and he says,” we can’t give you the cup you want a to go cup?”

Uh oh

No problem my brother takes out five bucks and says let me keep that cup on the counter. So the busboy took the money and gave my brother the cup.

So now we track down Stan and relay what “we’ve” done and what “we” want. Stan looks at my brother and says, “ you’re certifiable, a looney.”

Stan signed it to his #1 fan haha. My brother to this day has that signed personal note coffee cup in a display case. This is back before Stans “handlers” had him signing tube socks and t shirts for X dollars per.

We had so much access to Stan because it was a one off con, and Todd McFarlane was there.

OK here comes the art part but hang in there. Ok we are standing in line to have Todd sign our copies of Spider-Man 1. There’s a gorgeous girl behind the booth and my brother is running game big time. Turned out he was hitting on Todd McFarlane’s wife 

At that table Todd had art pages and I believe a few covers in the $700 area? I had 0 knowledge of original art so we didn’t even investigate further 😔 

Anyways a great con obviously I treasured meeting Stan and Todd for the first time. That was maybe the first imprint in my mind of the art behind the published comic: by 1996 I was fully aboard the train.

Good stuff haha!