<P> With the help of his uncle Robbie Solomon, Lee became an assistant in 1939 at the new Timely Comics division of pulp magazine and comic - book publisher Martin Goodman's company . Timely, by the 1960s, would evolve into Marvel Comics. Lee, whose cousin Jean was Goodman's wife, was formally hired by Timely editor Joe Simon . </P> <P> His duties were prosaic at first . "In those days (the artists) dipped the pen in ink, (so) I had to make sure the inkwells were filled", Lee recalled in 2009 . "I went down and got them their lunch, I did proofreading, I erased the pencils from the finished pages for them". 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 . Lee later explained in his autobiography and numerous other sources that he had intended to save his given name for more literary work . This initial story also introduced Captain America's trademark ricocheting shield - toss . </P> <P> He graduated from writing filler to actual comics with a backup feature, "' Headline' Hunter, Foreign Correspondent", two issues later . Lee's first superhero co-creation was the Destroyer, in Mystic Comics #6 (August 1941). Other characters he co-created during this period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books include Jack Frost, debuting in U.S.A. Comics #1 (August 1941), and Father Time, debuting in Captain America Comics #6 (August 1941). </P> <P> When Simon and his creative partner Jack Kirby left late in 1941, following a dispute with Goodman, the 30 - year - old publisher installed Lee, just under 19 years old, as interim editor . The youngster showed a knack for the business that led him to remain as the comic - book division's editor - in - chief, as well as art director for much of that time, until 1972, when he would succeed Goodman as publisher . </P>

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