PR.com: (Allison Kugel): Hi Stan! It's an honor to be speaking with you.

Stan Lee: Well thank you very much.

PR.com: I want to start by talking about your early life because…

Stan Lee: I was born of poor, but humble parents. (Laughs)

PR.com: I thought for a minute that you were going to quote Steve Martin's character in The Jerk…

Stan Lee: So tell me… what would you like to know?

PR.com: What childhood influences set the pattern for who you became as an adult?

Stan Lee: Oh I guess like everybody else, the things I read and the movies I saw, and of course whatever my parents taught me. But the biggest influences I think were the movies and the books.

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