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Stan Lee’s fictional superheroes lived in the real New York. Here’s where they lived, and why. https://t.co/oV1IGGN8R6
Stan Lee, who died Monday at 95, was born in Manhattan and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. His pulp-fiction heroes have come to define much of popular culture in the early 21st century.
Tying Marvel’s stable of pulp-fiction heroes to a real place — New York — served a counterbalance to the sometimes gravity-challenged action and the improbability of the stories. That was just what Stan Lee wanted. https://t.co/rDosqzpP8i
The New York universe hooked readers. And the artists drew what they were familiar with, which made the Marvel universe authentic-looking, down to the water towers atop many of the buildings. https://t.co/rDosqzpP8i
The Avengers Mansion was a Beaux-Arts palace. Fans know it as 890 Fifth Avenue. The Frick Collection, which now occupies the place, uses the address of the front door: 1 East 70th Street.
Stan Lee, who died Monday at 95, was born in Manhattan and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. His pulp-fiction heroes have come to define much of popular culture in the early 21st century.
Tying Marvel’s stable of pulp-fiction heroes to a real place — New York — served a counterbalance to the sometimes gravity-challenged action and the improbability of the stories. That was just what Stan Lee wanted. https://t.co/rDosqzpP8i
The New York universe hooked readers. And the artists drew what they were familiar with, which made the Marvel universe authentic-looking, down to the water towers atop many of the buildings. https://t.co/rDosqzpP8i
The Avengers Mansion was a Beaux-Arts palace. Fans know it as 890 Fifth Avenue. The Frick Collection, which now occupies the place, uses the address of the front door: 1 East 70th Street.
A small army of African-American women across the South is using networks originally forged in segregation to muster turnout for Democratic candidates
The women are mobilizing in conservative states and districts, hoping to pull off upsets like Doug Jones’s Senate victory last year in Alabama, where 98% of black women voted for him and proved a critical base of support. https://t.co/RSD5JCJ0Ui
"We're trying to stir up the spirits of the folks who’ve been turned off this damn process." — LaTosha Brown, in Greenville, Mississippi, co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund https://t.co/RSD5JCJ0Ui
Kewyata Dice works as a nursing assistant in Americus, Georgia. She sat out the 2014 and 2016 elections, but has promised to vote in this one. "I feel like I should get out and make my vote matter," she said. "Make myself matter." https://t.co/RSD5JCJ0Ui
Kayla and Kiana Blaine in Tallahassee, Florida, are fueled by a protectiveness and fear about the fate of black men. They applaud Andrew Gillum’s opposition to Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law and are recruiting fellow FAMU students to get out the vote. https://t.co/RSD5JCJ0Ui
The women are mobilizing in conservative states and districts, hoping to pull off upsets like Doug Jones’s Senate victory last year in Alabama, where 98% of black women voted for him and proved a critical base of support. https://t.co/RSD5JCJ0Ui
"We're trying to stir up the spirits of the folks who’ve been turned off this damn process." — LaTosha Brown, in Greenville, Mississippi, co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund https://t.co/RSD5JCJ0Ui
Kewyata Dice works as a nursing assistant in Americus, Georgia. She sat out the 2014 and 2016 elections, but has promised to vote in this one. "I feel like I should get out and make my vote matter," she said. "Make myself matter." https://t.co/RSD5JCJ0Ui
Kayla and Kiana Blaine in Tallahassee, Florida, are fueled by a protectiveness and fear about the fate of black men. They applaud Andrew Gillum’s opposition to Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law and are recruiting fellow FAMU students to get out the vote. https://t.co/RSD5JCJ0Ui
