DVD, Digital Release: With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

Digital Release Date: July 18, 2017, DVD Release Date: July 18, 2017
Price: DVD $10.03
Studio: Well Go USA


One of the most recognized name in comics, the legendary Stan Lee has co-created over 500 iconic pop culture characters including Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and many more and his name appears on more than one billion comics in 75 nations in 25 languages.

The 2010 feature-length documentary With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story returns to digital and DVD to explore the life and imagination of Stan Lee from his depression era upbringing though the Marvel Age of comics and beyond. The film uncovers original footage, photographs, documents and stories of Lee’s fascinating journey from his early years at Timely Comics, his service in WWII, the rise of the Marvel bullpen, the comic book industry’s censorship battle of the 1950’s through the dawn and explosion of Lee’s legendary co-creations.

Directed by Terry Dougas, Nikki Frakes and William Hess, the film offers a zillion interview bits with Lee’s colleagues and celebrity followers (everyone from Marvel Studio president Kevin Feige to fan chick Paris Hilton.

The DVD contains the following bonus contents:

  • Filmmaker Commentary
  • Over 90 minutes of Featurettes
  • Extended Interviews
  • Galleries of over 500 Characters Stan Lee co-created
Buy or Rent With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.