"Who Really Created the Marvel Universe?". ^ "True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee"." 'True Believer' tries to capture Stan Lee. "How 'True Believer' Untangles Stan Lee's Complicated Legacy". "Stan Lee was his own favorite superhero - that was his downfall". "Review: Stan Lee: Genius or huckster? A new biography of the Marvel creator weighs in". "In Conversation With Abraham Riesman, Stan Lee's Unblinking Biographer". Roy Thomas, a former editor-in-chief at Marvel and Lee's protégé, said the biography was 95% true, but the remaining 5% was so unfair to Lee that it rendered the book untrustworthy. Jillian Steinhauer wrote in The New Republic that the book is "well-researched and thorough" but "feels like it's missing an emotional core". Mike Avila of IGN wrote that it "offers an illuminating and often harsh look" at Lee, and Glen David Gold of The Washington Post called it an "excellent dig below the geniality that shows casual fans who he really was".
Writing for USA Today, Barbara VanDenburgh said that the book "doesn't read like a takedown" and is an "absorbing read" even for non-comics fans. Andy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times said it is "a well-researched, engrossing and compulsively readable book" but felt it focuses too much on scandalmongering and criticizing Lee. Stephanie Burt of The New Yorker described it as a künstlerroman that tackles a story that has become increasingly relevant to mainstream audiences who are not comics fans because of the billions of dollars involved in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Publishers Weekly called it a "detailed, clear-eyed examination" of interest to general audiences. Part of this is because the history of early comic book companies was not preserved, and part of it is because the Marvel Method of writing comic books, which gave artists creative freedom to plot stories, left authorship murky. Riesman said the book was not intended to be a hatchet job but instead examines controversies in the comic book business, many of which have no proof either way, such as who created which characters. Riesman interviewed Lee's surviving family members, former coworkers and business partners, and assistants who worked with his collaborators. True Believer was written as a followup and is a full biography of Lee's life. The article was, in part, about how much input Lee had in the creation of Marvel Comics superheroes during the Silver Age of Comic Books. Riesman, a comic book fan, had previously written several articles about comic books for, and her profile of Lee went viral. Lee, who died in 2018, was a comic book writer, editor, and publisher. True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee is a biography of Stan Lee written by Abraham Riesman.
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
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