rundalek:

STAN LEE I S SO FUCKING SAVAGE 

Stan Lee’s cameo in Deadpool looks hype as fuck

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Stan Lee and Robert Downey Jr. on the set of the first Iron Man movie.

“This gentleman was born to play Tony Stark. The way he looks is exactly how I pictured Tony.” - Stan Lee talking about RDJ [x]

With Avengers: Age of Ultron coming out today, I thought it would be a great opportunity to remind everyone that Stan Lee’s inspiration for S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division) was  U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement).

Stan Lee to HitFix:

HitFix: You’ve created so many characters and so many worlds over so many decades. How vividly do you actually remember the creation and the genesis of this S.H.I.E.L.D. world?

Stan Lee: I remember it very clearly! There had been a television show called “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” and I thought to myself, “We ought to do a script that had that same feeling.” U.N.C.L.E. was this secret organization and there were two stars in the show and they went out on all sorts of great assignments from U.N.C.L.E. I forget what the initials “U.N.C.L.E.” So I came up with S.H.I.E.L.D. - Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law enforcement Division. [He laughs.] I think they have since changed that a little bit, but that was the original meaning of S.H.I.E.L.D. We had this character, Sergeant Fury, who had been a sergeant in World War II, and we had a book called “Sergeant Fury and his Howling Commandos.” He was the head of a group of tough commandos and it was a very successful comic book for a number of years, but eventually I stopped doing it, because we stopped doing war stories. But fans would always say to me, “What happened to to Sergeant Fury? Where is he? What is he doing now?” So I thought, “Wow, if I do a script like ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’ if I get a secret organization, why not put Sergeant Fury at the head of it? But by now, he’ll be colonel!” I loved that idea. so he was the star, Colonel Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Jack and I had a lot of fun doing the S.H.I.E.L.D. stories. We’d come up with the wildest ideas we could think of and away we went.

Stan Lee to IGN:

IGN: You were there for the beginning of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Lee: Well, I’m glad they invited me, because I did the first S.H.I.E.L.D. story in the comics with Jack Kirby. I love the whole concept of S.H.I.E.L.D.. I don’t know if you’d remember, but years ago, there was a television show called The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and U.N.C.L.E. was a secret organization and so forth. I got the idea for S.H.I.E.L.D. from U.N.C.L.E.. I thought it’d be great to have an organization like that, but because we were doing comic books, I’d make it bigger and more colorful and more far out. We had a book called Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, which we stopped publishing after awhile. The fans would wonder, “What happened to Sgt. Fury? Where is he now?” So it occurred to me that if I did this group S.H.I.E.L.D., why not put Sergeant Fury at the head of it, except he’d now be a Colonel. So he’d be Colonel Fury and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – and that’s how it all started. I loved the idea, and I’m so glad that it’s a TV series. As it moves along, I hope it just gets wilder and wilder.