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I figured I'm going to tell you how spider-man came into being. It's a true story although sometimes it's hard even for me to believe it, but we had already done the Fantastic Four and I think maybe the x-men I can't remember the order. But my publisher came to me and he said Stan I want you to come up with another superhero so I said okay. 

I went home and when my publisher said do something I'd better do it because I wanted to keep my job. I thought what can I come up with now and the most important thing in a superhero at first is the superpower. Once you get that everything comes along. 

So I thought what power will I give a new guy and I saw a fly crawling on the wall and I said hey if I can get a superhero that could stick to walls and crawl on him man that would be cool. And no I'm lying to you. I don't think the word cool was in use then I probably I probably said it'll be groovy. I'll never lie to you so I thought that was good. 

Now I needed a name. So let's see fly man, mosquito man. I cut down the spider-man. Spider-man, it just sounded dramatic. So okay and my hero I had his power, his name and then I figured just for fun I'm going to give him personal problems. Because except for you people who're that your lives are perfect but most other people have personal problems. And then I thought I'd make him a teenager because there were no teenage superheroes that I know of at the time so armed with all that wonderful material those great ideas. 

I ran into my publishers office and I told them. This was my reaction. The reaction he gave me Stan that is the worst idea I have ever heard. First of all, and he started to give me his rate because he's a very logical man very intellectual. First of all, people hate spiders so you can't call a hero spider-man. You want him to be a teenager? Teenagers can only be sidekicks. And you want him to have personal problems? Stan don't you know what a superhero is? They don't have personal problems. 

Well I left the office disappointed. But obviously a much wiser man. And I couldn't get spider-man out of my system. So we were about to kill the magazine, I think it was called "Amazing Fantasy". It wasn't selling well and we were sending the last issue to press. When you do the last issue of a magazine, nobody cares what you put in it because the book is dying. Just to get it out of my system, I put spider-man. An "Amazing Fantasy" featured him on the cover, forgot about it. A month later all the sales figures came in. My publisher came racing into my office. Stan! Stan! you remember that character we both loved so much spider-man? Let's do them as a series. 

Now, why am I telling you this besides the fact that I have to kill a little time? If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it. Now that doesn't mean that every wild notion you come up with is going to be genius. But if there is something that you feel is good, something you want to do something that means something to you, try to do it. Because I think you can only do your best work if you're doing what you want to do. And if you're doing it the way you think it should be done and if you can take pride in that after you've done it, no matter what it is you can look at it and say I did that I think it's pretty damn good. That's a great feeling. So don't let idiots talk you out of something that you think is good. 

By the same token that doesn't mean every single thing you think is good. It isn't going to be win a price, got to have a little judgement there. I've had other things that I thought were good that didn't work. But I'll save that for the next award you give me, I'll need something. And I want to say I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this award. And this college has meant a lot to me. I have spoken here many times over the years. It's one of the greatest institutes of learning. And to get this award, the icon award, I am truly touched so I want to thank the staff Nick whoever it is the cave it a big. And I want to wish all of you the best luck in the world. Just do your thing, do it as well as you. That's the important thing. Don't shirk whatever you do. Give it your best shot. you'll be glad you do.