MEETING STAN LEE

MEETING STAN LEE

In the late 1980s Peter Adamakos was invited to be the animation guest
of honor at the Atlanta Fantasy Fair. An exhibition of his artwork was
on display, and he gave talks on animation and premiered the
theatrical short BIBITE at the convention. There were other guests
including actors, writers and the comic guest of honor, Stan Lee.

The invited guests had a number of opportunities to get to meet each
other as they appeared together on panels and other activities. We
often had lunch together and it was a great three day event, if
hectic, and the main room alone had 40,000 square feet of fans and
fandom.

Stan Lee was an engaging and friendly man and of course we talked of
animation and comics during the convention. He liked one of our
proposed projects and we began talks of bringing it to Marvel
Animation. We continued discussing it in the months that followed,
then one day he advised that he was going to sell the animation
company and would not be involved. It was disappointing as working
with him it would have been something special.