PR.com chats with Stan Lee

PR.com posted an interview with Stan Lee earlier this week, in which he talks about his early life:

PR.com: Do you have one specific memory where it clicked in your mind that you wanted to write characters?

Stan Lee: No. What happened was, at school I was always good at [English] composition. Whenever I had to write a composition, I did well and the teachers always encouraged me to write. It came easy to me. So, it was very nice to be encouraged to do something that came easily.

PR.com: And who was the first person who believed in your talent, when you got out of school and you started to make your way in your career?

Stan Lee: Well that's an interesting question. I was hired at a magazine company just to be an assistant. It was a comic book company… to the editor and the artist. They worked together. And after I was there for a while, they started giving me things to write. So I guess you might say that they were the first. Their names were Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.