 "I would then race home on my bike, clutching my new titles, almost apoplectic in anticipation. When I opened each brightly coloured issue, it wasn't to find out the latest about Peter Parker/Spider-Man's ailing Aunt May, or even whether Doctor Doom's latest device for world domination had really -- as it seemed last issue -- killed off one of the magically empowered Fantastic Four."
Trevor Boddy [Special to the Sun] writes a sentimental and substantial profile on ‘Stan The Man’ to herald his upcoming appearance in Vancouver, Wednesday at the 18th annual Film and Television Trade Forum, a parallel event to this year's Vancouver International Film Festival. He will be interviewed by Vancouver writer/director David Hauka at the University of B.C. Robson Square theatre
 Trevor hopes it will be filled to its rafters with "lapsed and superannuated members of the Merry Marvel Marching Society"
a little off his usual beat [the Sun's civics and architecture columnist] but he shows he's more then qualified to talk about the mastermind of Marvel Comics' formative years and co-creator of many of it's institutions. I liked that he did not fall, as many do, to crediting the world to him but still gives him his proper due, and he talks to some detail about Stan's own misgivings about Marvel's cooperate culture. On the whole this is one of the best articles I’ve read on the old dude in, ever!
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