JONAH JAMESON IS MODELED AFTER STAN LEE.

When you take a step back and look at Stan Lee and J. Jonah Jameson, there’s hardly a comparison. One is an imaginative and upbeat legend of a man, who has created more classic superhero comics than probably anyone else in the industry can boast. The other, well… it’s J. Jonah Jameson. But could it be that somehow, the hot-headed owner of the Daily Bugle was actually modeled after Stan Lee? Well, according to the man himself, yes!

During an interview Stan Lee did for NPR in 2010, he admitted this surprising fact while answering a fan question. “I thought, if I were a grumpy, irritable man, which I am sometimes, how would I act? And that was it.” While it’s cool to learn something like that so long after the character was first created, the thought of the Stan Lee we know acting anything like Jameson is terrifying.