Summary

For 30 years prior to his passage in 2018,Stan Leemade cameo appearances in many live - natural process adaptation of report from Marvel Comics , but two of these appearances , one from Fox ’s Marvel franchise and one in theMCU , break dance tradition . Stan Lee became an help at Timely Comics in 1939 , and spent the next several decades rise through the rank , eventually becoming the primary originative leader of Marvel Comics . Even after his retirement in the nineties , Lee remained as Marvel Comics ' public figurehead , and became the highest - grossing person in film ever thanks to hiscameo appearance in Marvel ’s live - activeness projects .

Stan Lee made cameo appearances in every individual feature film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before his passing in November 2018 , and made two posthumous appearances in 2019’sCaptain MarvelandAvengers : Endgame . However , Lee ’s first Marvel cameo dates back even further , as he appeared as the narrator and jury foreman during Dr. David Banner ’s test in 1989’sThe Trial of the Incredible HulkTV movie . This stand for that Lee appeared as original characters in 30 years of Marvel undertaking , buttwo of Lee ’s cameo stand out from the others , as they were adapted now from characters from Marvel Comics .

Stan Lee ’s cameos can be found throughout the MCU , but there were certain sequences featuring the Marvel writer that did n’t make the final cut .

Stan Lee Cut Cameos

Stan Lee Cameos As Willie Lumpkin In 2005’s Fantastic Four

twentieth Century Fox adapted Marvel ’s First Family into live - military action in2005’sFantastic Four , and Stan Lee ’s cameo in the project saw him portray a fibre that he created for Marvel Comics . Lee appeared as Willie Lumpkin , the Fantastic Four ’s mailman who greets them in the Baxter Building , marking Lumpkin ’s live - action at law debut after being introduced to Marvel Comics in 1963’sFantastic Four # 11 . Lumpkin was have as a side - character in the Fantastic Four ’s adventures , and even dated Peter Parker ’s Aunt May for a sentence . Willie Lumpkin later reappeared as a biological science instructor for the Future Foundation ’s school as late as 2013 .

Willie Lumpkin was voiced by Colin Murdock in the animatedFantastic Four : World ’s Greatest Heroesseries , in the sequence " My Neighbor Was a Skrull , " which released in 2006 .

Stan Lee’s Defenders Character Was Very Different To His Marvel Comics Counterpart

In theDefenders Saga , Irving Forbush was adapted into a Captain of the NYPD , create his first show in a photo hang in Precinct 15 inDaredevilseason 1.Jessica Jonesseason 2 expose that Irving Forbush had become an attorney at Forbush and Associates , which continued intoLuke Cageseason 2 , where Lee ’s image is limn with the caption,“Call Forbush - Get What You Deserve . “Lee ’s version of Irving Forbush is immensely different from the character inspiration in Marvel Comics , and marked only the 2nd and final time thatStan Leeappeared as a character from the comics .

Close up of Hulk looking sad with necklaces around his neck in Thor Ragnarok

David Corenswet As Superman Injured In Healing Chair Surrounded By Automatons in Superman Movie

Stan Lee with Willie Lumpkin and Irving Forbush in Marvel Comics

Stan Lee as Willie Lumpkin in 2005’s Fantastic Four

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