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Stan Lee
斯坦·李
Prepare to be astonished!
準備好大吃一驚吧！
Stan Lee, born Stanley Lieber, comic-book writer, died on November 12th, aged 95
斯坦·李，原名斯坦利·利博，漫畫創作者，逝于11月12日，享年95歲
Perhaps he wasn’t born with superhero powers, like the X-Men—or the god Thor, for that matter. Perhaps he didn’t acquire them from a radioactive-spider bite (Spider-Man) or from studying the mystic arts (Doctor Strange). All the same, Stan Lee certainly had them! In his autobiography, graphic of course, they dazzled like sun-rays round his head. (He needed those tinted glasses he wore.) Waves of energy shook from his shoulders. For he was the man who had thought up those characters. He had brought Marvel Comics back from the dead, and with it the whole industry of comics, so that far from being something cheap and childish, which your parents didn’t want you to read, they became grown-up too! And wildly popular! And took over Hollywood, and with it the whole of American pop culture, earning revenues in the billions and billions of dollars! Phe-ee-ew.
或許他并非像X戰警或是雷神索爾那樣生來就有超能力。或許他也沒能像蜘蛛俠那樣從輻射的蜘蛛咬傷獲得超人力量，或是像神秘博士那樣通過學習神秘藝術獲得神力。盡管如此，斯坦·李同樣也有超能力！在斯坦·李的漫畫體自傳中，超人力量像陽光般在他頭頂閃耀。（他需要帶著那些彩色眼鏡。）能量波從他肩膀震出。因為正是他創造了這些（具有超人力量的）角色。是他讓美國漫威漫畫公司起死回生，隨后整個漫畫產業脫離廉價和幼稚，之前父母不想讓你看的漫畫也長成大人了！而且還廣受歡迎！漫威攻占了好萊塢電影，隨后影響整個美國流行文化，賺了數十億美元！令人咋舌。
But then his superheroes, and his supervillains too, had problems and lived in the real world, unlike the cut-out cardboard creatures that ruled the genre until he chanced along. In fact you might not notice they had powers at all. Like Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, a nerdy scientist, who when pitted against Doctor Doom and his robot army could spool out into any length and shape! Or Peter Parker, just another adolescent worried about spots and girls, who when the Green Goblin loomed was suddenly Spidey, scaling skyscrapers and running across ceilings! Or Ben Grimm, a Jewish scrapper from Yancy Street who became the rocky orange bruiser known as the Thing, yelling “Clobberin’ time!”
但另一方面，斯坦·李創作出來的超級英雄以及超級反派，也會遇到麻煩而且生活在現實世界中，這和之前統治著漫畫流派的不真實的生物完全不同。事實上，你可能根本沒有注意到他們有超能力。就拿《超級四俠》里的里德·理查茲來舉例，他是一個書呆子科學家，當面對末日博士和其機器人軍隊時，他可以卷成任何長度和形狀！或者彼得·帕克，又一個擔心長斑和女孩的青春期少年，當綠魔出現時，他突然變成了蜘蛛俠，爬上摩天大樓，在天花板上奔跑！還有本·格雷姆，一個來自揚西街的猶太拳手，后來成了人稱“石頭人”的橙色石頭打手，大喊著進入“扁人”時間。
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