[Fingeroth's] intimate yet balanced account, highlights Lee's humanity, humor and even humility. But it doesn't ignore how his canny self-promotion at times shortchanged his collaborators and constrained his own choices. --Wall Street Journal

Across a lifetime of creativity, collaboration and endless hustle, Stan Lee saw possibilities no else could imagine and made them real. And if you want to understand how Lee and Marvel did it, Danny Fingeroth's new book A Marvelous Life is the place to start. As a lifelong fan of Spider-Man, The X-Men, Star-Lord and the rest, it was delightful introduction to a guy I'd never met but felt I'd known my whole life. --Adam Frank, NPR

Enthusiastic...a fittingly ebullient tribute to a man who never failed to add one more exclamation mark. This is a sure hit for comics fans of all camps. --Publishers Weekly

Detail-packed....Fans of comics culture will enjoy Fingeroth's tribute to his legendary boss. --Kirkus Reviews

Lee remains a pivotal figure in the superhero genre that's come to dominate popular culture, and Fingeroth, a comics veteran who worked closely with Lee, gives evenhanded treatment to his accomplishments and foibles. --Booklist

A high-demand biography for fans of Lee and Marvel comics. --Library Journal

A fascinating peek behind the curtain at Lee's legendary bullpen. Comics fans will appreciate the inside lane knowledge of Kirby and Ditko's feuds with Lee and the epiphanies of their collaborations. --Forward

His life's work, as it turned out, was serious enough, and Fingeroth honours it with a book that is as much an affectionate biography of a business as it is of the man who made it.
--Sunday Times (UK)

A must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about one of comics' greatest and most polarizing figures. --SYFY WIRE

Drawing information from Lee's own archives, firsthand experience, others who knew the most famous comic book creator who ever lived, and many more sources, Fingeroth strives to be both factual and fair to all parties, concerned throughout this complicated and controversial life history. This gripping and entertaining read offers an account not only of one man but also of Marvel Comics itself, along with the lives impacted along the way. --Psychology Today

This one might be the comic-lovers go-to gift for the 2019 season. Danny Fingeroth takes readers on a deep dive into Stan's life, stuffing this book with balanced analysis and long-lost stories. It's a page turner and there's something for everyone inside. --Ed Catto, Pop Culture Squad

There's more about Stan Lee in this roller coaster of a book than I thought I'd ever want to know. But I couldn't stop reading it. Danny Fingeroth gives us, page after page, rapid and cogent insights into the Marvel world, the comics universe, and Stan Lee as innovator, ring master, high-stakes gambler, con man, and an indefatigable charmer. And visionary, as well Stan would want to take the book apart, and put it together again. --Jules Feiffer (assisted Will Eisner on The Spirit, and authored The Great Comic Book Heroes)

There have been several bios of Stan, including ones attributed to himself, but Danny's is the best so far! I think this will become the standard source about Stan's life. --Peter Sanderson, comics scholar and historian

Fingeroth seems to cover everything with extensive research, interviews, his personal relationship with Stan and the archives at the University of Wyoming. It's just a great look at Stan Lee and for comic book fans, a great behind the scenes look at how they were developed and made." --Red Carpet Crash

Lieber's origin story is as good as any of the characters he would go on to create, and Danny Fingeroth's new biography, A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story Of Stan Lee, tells it well. --AV Club

"Danny understands Stan's special talent of blending together the diverse creations of his myriad collaborators into a coherent universe with a single voice which made each of us feel it had been created for us alone. I'm glad Stan's bio was written and he was the one to write it." --Scott Edelman, award-winning comics and science fiction writer and editor

Danny Fingeroth has written an essential book for anyone interested in the popular culture that surrounds us. More than just his critical role in the creation of many comics for Marvel, but the films that dominate the theaters are impossible to imagine without Stan Lee. --James Danky, University of Wisconsin-Madison (School of Journalism and Mass Communication); Co-author of Underground Classics (The Transformation of Comics into Comix)

It's wonderful--even-handed, affectionate but not hagiographic, and genuinely insightful. --Professor Ben Saunders, Director of Comics Studies, University of Oregon