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Stan Lee Media Headquarters Visit

Date range confirmed in original Google Video description for the footage

Stan Lee, MTV News (July 29, 2009)

"We had met a number of times," Lee told MTV News. "In fact, [Jackson] came to my house once with his son, and I remember my wife took care of his son for about an hour while Michael and I were talking.

"He was quite a good father," he added. "He was very solicitous, and he cared very much for the boy."

While their plan to buy Marvel never progressed past "the discussion phase," Lee said, the pair grew fairly close. At one point, Lee even made a trip to Jackson's home to discuss, of all things, Spider-Man.

"I had been to his place in Neverland," Lee said. "He wanted to do Spider-Man. I'm not sure whether he just wanted to produce it or wanted to play the role. ... Our conversation never got that far along.

"He thought I'd be the one who could get him the rights [to make a Spider-Man movie], and I told him I couldn't," Lee continued. "He would have to go to the Marvel company. But we did become friendly ... and he was a great guy."

“Moviefone” (May 1, 2012) (archived)

“Moviefone”: The most interesting bit of almost-casting that I've ever heard came from a Producers Guild conference last summer: the "X-Men" producers revealed that Michael Jackson seriously lobbied for the part of Professor X.

Stan Lee: I wasn’t aware that Michael Jackson wanted to be Professor X. I knew Michael Jackson. And with the things he discussed with me, I felt he wanted to be Spider-Man. That was the character that interested him. He never discussed the X-Men with me.

“Moviefone”: How do you think he would have fared as Spider-Man?

Stan Lee:I think he’d have been good. I think he’d have been very good. But I must say that Tobey Maguire was wonderful.

“Moviefone”: I’m fascinated by the fact that Jackson worked with Stan Lee Media and attempted to buy Marvel, in the 90s.

Stan Lee:Yes, he wanted to. He felt that would be the only way that he could play Spider-Man. [Laughs]

The Comics Journal (August 17, 2005) (archived)

For once, the connection to Jackson came not through Paul's vast network but via SLM artist Aaron Sowd, who knew someone in the Jackson camp. According to Paul, "After we built SLM into a public company with a market cap almost twice Marvel's, we talked with Michael Jackson about teaming up to buy Marvel. I have a videotape of Michael in our offices for over two hours, seeing what we were doing."

Jackson, who was an avowed fan of Lee's work at Marvel, was reportedly interested and sat down with Lee and Paul to discuss the possibilities. Salicrup, who was also present, recalls Jackson saying to Lee, "If I buy Marvel, you'll help me run it, won't you?"

According to Salicrup, Lee responded, 'Sure. I'll be here."

Jackson retained the services of investment banking firm Wasserstein-Perrella to negotiate with Perlmutter, but according to Paul, the Marvel owner was unwilling to take less than $1 billion for the company, and Jackson's zeal eventually faded.

Google Video description of Stan Lee Media footage (October 27, 2006) (Mirror)

Exclusive video of Michael Jackson visiting Stan Lee Media Squnkqurx animation studio in February, 2000. Jackson, Peter F Paul and Stan Lee discussed joint venturing Jackson's entertainment activities with Stan Lee's 100 man studio while working together to buy Marvel Entertainment. Stan Lee Media was valued at $370 million then, twice the value of Marvel. At the end of the video Stan Lee tells Michael Jackson that Peter Paul could be as great a help to building Michael's company as he was in building Stan's company. Four months later Paul arranged with President Bill Clinton to come and work with Paul and Lee after he left the White House in 2001 as a Rainmaker for their global expansion.(see www.hillcap.org)This resulted in the largest campaign fraud on record by the Clintons and a $100 million civil fraud suit against the Clintons by Paul.