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Stan Lee, Excelsior - My Tribute

Excelsior - 

Where did your catch phrase "Excelsior!" come from?
I used to have a lot of expressions that I would end my comic book columns with: Hang Loose, Face Front, 'Nuff Said, and I found that the competition was always imitating them and using them. So, I said I'm going to get one expression that they're not going to know what it means, and they won't know how to spell it. And that's where excelsior came from, and they never did take up on it, thank goodness.

Source: Stan Lee Shouts 'Excelsior!'

A lot of tributes have come out recently on Stan, "The Man" Lee from a great tribute from New Mexican, George R. R. Martian on his blog entry "Farewell to a Marvel" to Bill Maher's condescending opinion on what is or is not good art (when is comedic talent is the artistic equivalent of Tiny Tim's music).  

I was first introduced to Stan Lee from comic books, but his voice and famous catch phrase came from my Saturday Morning's watching Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.

You can listen to the audio to snack on some "member berries":

http://www.spider-friends.com/BuenaVista/StanLeeNarrations.html

While a lot of the writings on Stan Lee go from him being a genius to an attention seeking salesman who was taking credit for other people's creations, I can say that Stan's creative salesman side and his contribution is something that Marvel couldn't do without as much as their artists and writers.  For myself, Stan was the narrator for my favorite super hero, Spidey, in bringing this great character with character challenges in his various evolutions from Comic, TV, and the big screen.

Hearing what was happening to Stan after losing his wife, being taken advantage of I was always praying for Stan to have a happy ending in this life and the next.  True Believers, he seemed to in this life and I hope the next as well.   -nuff said.