It’s obviously just comic book readers who think that the legendary Stan Lee’s pretty much past his due date, and I know it’s not even a 100% accepted consensus. even there. Obviously Disney feels otherwise, or at least they feel there’s still some money to be squeezed from Lee’s name as they just announced that Stan will be developing some superhero-styled properties for The Mouse to, assumedly, animate.

Comic book legend Stan Lee has set up three projects at Disney, which houses his production shingle POW! Entertainment. The projects have attracted Oscar nominee Richard LaGravenese, scribe Gary Goldman and Robert Teitel and George Tillman Jr. of State Street Pictures.

The projects are based on stories and ideas from Lee, who will executive produce with his POW! partner Gill Champion.

Lee and Champion said the projects are intended to be tentpoles with franchise potential, with the first installments intended to serve as an origin story that lays out the mythology of the plot and characters.

“I only hope Disney will have room at the theme park once they become the tentpole franchises that we envision them to be,” Lee joked.

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