Debut as a text filler
Time: May, 1941
Place: Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Details: Marshaling his childhood ambition to be a writer, young Stanley Lieber made his comic-book debut with the text filler "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge" in Captain America Comics #3 (cover-dated May 1941), using the pseudonym Stan Lee which years later he would adopt as his legal name.
‹ Earlier in historyChairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet UnionTuesday May 6, 1941 Later in history ›Hess flew Solo to BritainSaturday May 10, 1941
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