Stan Lee To Lose Pants In Legal Battle!
Stan Lee with his pants off; it’s every girl’s dream. (What? Is that gross?) Only it’s not as magical as it would seem my fellow silver fox lovin’ freaks! According to Variety.com shareholders of Stan Lee Media Inc. are suing the pants off of our beloved geek icon! Named as defendants in the $750 million suit are Stan-the-man, his unimportant-as-far-as-I’m-concerned wife, Marvel Entertainment Inc. (New York) and former Marvel CEO/wacky producer Avi Arad. Stan Lee Media Inc. are seeking profits from films and other works based on Marvel characters, including Spider-Man, X-Men and Iron Man, that the shareholders say belong to the company, which recently emerged from bankruptcy in 2006. In a statement released in 2008, Lee's lawyers denied that he gave the company copyright interests in characters he created during his Marvel career. Oh what a tangled, web we weave...
