Marvel fans love seeing Stan Lee make cameos in MCU movies. From his first appearance as a Hugh Hefner-style playboy in Iron Man to his final shot as a hippie in Avengers: Endgame, Stan gave audiences plenty to look forward to. Stan also made funny cameos in animated movies like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and even DC's Teen Titans GO! to the Movies.

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What fans may not realize, however, is that Stan has been making cameos for decades in Marvel comic books. With Stan having sadly passed away, here are ten places you can still see Stan Lee make an appearance in the comics.

10 The Fantastic Four #10

Stan Lee literally wrote himself and artist Jack Kirby into their own comic book in The Fantastic Four #10, which saw the two comic creators striving to come up with a good villain to face off against the Fantastic Four. They end up getting a visit from Doctor Doom who forced them to lure Reed Richards to Marvel Comics so the villain could switch minds with him. Apparently, the Fantastic Four helped Lee and Kirby come up with plots for the Fantastic Four comic in the Marvel Universe too!

9 The Fantastic Four Annual #3

Lee and Kirby reappeared in The Fantastic Four Annual #3 when they tried to attend the wedding of Reed Richards and Sue Storm. Sadly they were both thrown out by none other than Nick Fury for not having an invitation. Swearing revenge, the two comic creators vowed to get even in the next issue of the comic.

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The gag was so funny it was reused in the movies when Stan Lee tried (and failed) to get into Reed and Sue's wedding in The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Kirby, sadly, passed away in the 1990s and could not reprise his role.

8 Marvel Team-Up #74

Stan Lee is a natural showman. So, it was only natural that he made an appearance in Marvel Team-Up #74 as the host of Saturday Night Live! The story saw Peter Parker attend a performance of SNL with Mary Jane - only to discover that the Silver Samurai was causing trouble backstage, forcing Spidey to get involved. Stan, amusingly, remained oblivious to the whole thing as he joked with the original SNL cast. Unfortunately, SNL never asked Stan Lee to host their show in the real world.

7 Daredevil #79

Stan Lee and his wife Joan both met Daredevil when the Man Without Fear ran by them in Daredevil #79. Although blind, Daredevil naturally recognized his creator, calling him "fearless leader" before getting the two to safety. He then faced off against the Man-Bull, giving Stan a front-row seat to a superhero fight.

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Stan must have enjoyed the cameo since he would later appear as an old man saved by a young Matt Murdock in the live-action Daredevil movie starring Ben Affleck.

6 Mini Marvels

The wonderful Mini Marvels was a series of comics that recast Marvel characters as kids who received advice from their friendly "Principal Stanley." In one comic strip, Stan got a visit from a depressed Spider-Man (aka “Spidey”) who couldn’t stop feeling guilty over his Uncle Ben’s death. When he wondered who had decided to play such a cruel joke on him, Stan nervously changed the subject and arranged for Spidey to take a day off from being a superhero. Later, he advised a young Green Goblin who wanted to rob a bank to "do it tonight."

5 New Avengers Annual #1

Stan Lee famously appeared as a bearded “love expert” in Kevin Smith’s Mallrats movie. So, it just seemed natural that he should officiate the wedding of Luke Cage (aka Power Man) and Jessica Jones in New Avengers Annual #1.

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This wasn't even the first time Stan had married comic book characters. He'd also officiated the wedding of Spider-Man and Mary Jane during a live 1987 publicity stunt at Shea Stadium. Considering Stan and his wife Joan had been married since 1947, he likely was an expert on marriage.

4 The All New, All Different X-Men #98

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby made another brief but funny cameo during a Christmas-themed story in The All-New, All Different X-Men #98. While enjoying the New York winter snow, the two saw Scott Summers (Cyclops) and Jean Grey making out in public. Recognizing the two X-Men, Jack remarked that such a scene would have never happened when they were in charge of the X-Men comic books. Adding that kids today had “no respect,” Lee got to poke fun at the “grumpy old man” character cameo he would sometimes play later in life.

3 Stan Lee Meets Doctor Strange #1

In the early 2000s, Stan wrote a series of one-shot comic books containing short stories where he met and interacted with famous characters he helped co-create like Doctor Doom, Spider-Man, and the Silver Surfer. This gave him a great way to give himself extended cameos.

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In Stan Lee Meets Doctor Strange, Lee dropped by his “old friend” Doctor Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum in Greenwich Village only to learn that the good doctor had fallen on hard times. Needing money to pay for rent and memory classes to help remember his spells, Doctor Strange turned his home into a tourist trap selling T-shirts and personal photographs. Stan was actually asked to pay to see his own creation!

2 Stan Lee Meets The Thing #1

Stan Lee wrote himself into another cameo when he penned a short story where he bumped into Ben Grimm (aka The Thing) of the Fantastic Four. Revealing himself as the man who had turned Ben into the monstrous Thing when he wrote The Fantastic Four, Stan offered to write a new story that would turn Ben back into a regular human. To his shock, Ben revealed he secretly preferred being the Thing since everyone else was a wimp compared to him – and all the girls loved him. Suddenly envious, Stan asked Ben if he could get blasted by cosmic rays too.

1 Captain America #600

While most of Stan Lee’s cameos are done for laughs, one comic book appearance had an almost tragic feel. In the story “The Persistence of Memorabilia,” published in Captain America #600, multiple people bid on Captain America memorabilia after Cap was gunned down in the aftermath of Marvel’s first Superhero Civil War. One of the items up for auction is a photograph of Captain America alongside the 47th Infantry Division during World War II. It ends up being sold to an elderly, sad-eyed Stan Lee who actually did serve in World War II as a young man.

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