ASHWAUBENON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – From Spider-Man to Fantastic Four and X-Men, there is a long list of comic books Stan Lee helped create.
He also deserves some credit for Powers Comics in Ashwaubenon.
“The first comic book I bought, I was 8 years old,” said Dave Powers, the owner of Powers Comics. “I got an Avengers comic book.”
Powers tells FOX 11 he opened his store almost 12 years ago. He told Lee about it when he met him at a comic show in Chicago.
“They actually asked us to not shake his hand because he was signing for three straight days, but after I told Stan that I opened a comic book store after reading one of his old comics, it inspired me as a kid to want to do this, he reached out and shook mine. It was really cool.”
“For all the fans out there, comic books or not, you know about him,” said Ahman Green, the Packers all-time leading rusher and regular customer at Powers Comics.
“You know who he was. You know what he created.”
Green didn’t get to talk to Lee when he briefly saw him from a distance at Comic-Con in San Diego, but if he had, he says he would have asked him about his favorite comic book character.
“I’d be like, did you like Batman?” said Green.
Lee was in our area last summer for EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh.
Lee’s foundation partnered with EAA’s Young Eagles program, which teaches 8 to 17-year-olds about aviation and gets them in a plane for the first time.
“We’ve got to come up with the right stories and the right images and we’ve got to really excite young people about aviation,” said Lee in 2017.
And although Lee is gone, his stories will live on at places like Powers Comics.
“I’m sure there will be a mourning period in the comic book world for a while,” said Powers.
Lee was 95 years old.
