Stan Lee talks about forever fans, love of ‘comicbooks’ at Silicon Valley Comic Con

Stan Lee talks about forever fans, love of ‘comicbooks’ at Silicon Valley Comic Con SAN JOSE — Stan Lee took the Silicon Valley Comic Con stage for the last day of the weekend-long event, and made a good case for more than his regular one-scene cameo in the next Marvel movie. [...] the co-creator of Thor, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man and the X-Men is still arguably the most entertaining draw at pop culture conventions. The San Jose Convention Center big room that seats 3,200 — almost as much as the Fillmore Auditorium and Warfield put together — was packed for a simple Q&A on Sunday, March 20, featuring queries from one awestruck fan after the other. If I hadn’t gotten into comics I think I might have been some sort of writer. [...] I might have tried to be an actor, because my favorite person, besides myself, was Errol Flynn. Stand-up comedy might have worked as well. Here’s Lee on why you’ve been saying the words “comic book” wrong all these years: A ‘comicbook,’ Lee told the crowd, explaining that the two-word version implies just a book with comics, not a complex artistic experience. Peter Hartlaub is The San Francisco Chronicle’s pop culture critic.