Stan Lee (1922–2018) began his career with wartime Timely Comics, and staying the course throughout the Atlas era, Stan the Man made comic book history with Fantastic Four #1, harbinger of a bold new perspective in story writing that endures to this day. With some of the industry’s greatest artists, he introduced hero after hero in Incredible Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men, and more, forming a shared universe for rival publishers to measure themselves against. After an almost literal lifetime of writing and editing, Lee was involved in movies and television via his company POV! Entertainment. He was Marvel’s chairman emeritus and best-known public representative.

Stuart Moore is a writer, a book editor and an award-winning comics editor. His novels include the New York Times bestselling Zodiac Legacy series (with Stan Lee, from Disney) and Marvel's Civil War.

Current and recent comics writing includes Convergence: Superboy and the Legion (DC) and Dominion: Last Sacrifice (Amazon/Jet City); he has also written several original science-fiction projects, including the acclaimed EGOs (Image Comics).

Moore has served as editor of the Virgin/SciFi Channel comics line, the Marvel Knights imprint and DC's acclaimed Vertigo line, for which he won the Eisner Award for Best Editor.