A man who recently described himself as “the world’s most famous cameo artist" made an appearance in San Francisco weekend. This time, he wasn't here to wink at the camera — instead, he was cheering on the SF Giants.
92-year-old Stan Lee is known to many not just as a comic book writer, editor, and publisher but as the guy who's made multitudes of cameo appearances, first drawn into Marvel books in the 1960s, then later in Marvel film properties, including this summer's moneymaking monster Avengers: Age of Ultron.
.@TheRealStanLee is in the 🏠 #SFGHero #SFGiants pic.twitter.com/nDx0qZamaw
— San Francisco Giants (@SFGiants) May 9, 2015
This Saturday, Lee's cameo was at AT&T Park, where the Marvel man made his third-annual appearance at the SF Giants' Superheroes and Comics Night.
You might recall that in 2013, Lee turned Sergio Romo into a superhero as part of that year's event, and in 2014 he threw out the first pitch at a June game.
On Saturday, Lee returned to answer questions, greet his old pal Romo, kick off the game, and show off his Giants garb:
Sadly, the Giants would lose the game 6-2 to the Miami Marlins. But, as Lee once said, "If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader."
Perhaps the same is true for our struggling Giants? One can only hope.