"In the comic book, when Reed and Sue got married, Jack Kirby drew the last panel of the story which showed him and me trying to get into the wedding, but not being allowed in," explains Lee.  "We thought that it would make a great, funny ending.  It's just a shame that Jack is no longer with us because it would have been great if he would have been in the cameo with me."

Lee says he is excited to finally see the Silver Surfer on the big screen.  "I've always had a warm spot for the Surfer because he was the most philosophical of all of our characters," recalls Lee.  "I was able to put a lot of my own thoughts and theories in his dialogue.  He always wondered why the human race, which is blessed with such wonderful weather, all the food we could want, change of seasons and such beautiful scenery, could have wars and have trouble getting along.  Those are thoughts that I always had, and I've been able to have him say those things and seemed appropriate, because he was seeing us with fresh eyes, having come from another planet."

Lee credits the success of the films not so much with the source material, but with the creativity of the filmmakers themselves.  "I wrote a lot of stories and I was very lucky that some of the stories seemed to catch the imagination of the readers," says Lee.  "But lucky for me, when movies were made of them, Marvel picked the best directors, screenwriters and the best actors, and that tended to make the things that I wrote years ago seem very profound and perhaps clever...So much of it has to do with the way the story is presented on the screen.  If these things were badly done, people would say, 'Ah, that Stan Lee is just a hack.'  So, I owe a lot to the incredibly talented people who have done these movies."