vintagegeekculture:

If you ever want to see the otherwise avuncular Stan Lee actually pop a vein and get angry, read some of his stories where he handles the senselessness of racism and bigotry, like the Howling Commandos story where a bigot against black people joined the commandos and had his life saved by Gabe Jones, or FF 25, the story of the Hate-Monger’s Hate Ray, where he legitimately got passionate and mad. 

The first black editor at Marvel, Chris Priest, said that he got a lot of race based hazing from guys around the Marvel offices in the late 1970s. And Priest made a point of saying that Stan Lee – who at the time worked at Marvel in a ceremonial and promotional role instead of a creative, or management, or editorial one – NEVER joined in and discouraged it angrily whenever he was around.