Stan Lee Makes It Onto FORBES Top Ten Most Influential Celebrities
Forbes has listed Stan Lee among its most influential celebrities of 2014 a list which includes many other celebrities including Steven Speilberg.
“Maybe it’s all those cameos in Marvel movies,” the business magazine explains. “Lee doesn’t usually show up on this list but the comic creator is responsible for the characters in some of the biggest movies in recent years.”
Stan Lee has appeared in 18 films based on the Marvel characters , from 2000′s X-Men to 2013′s Thor: The Dark World. He is also set to make a guest appearance on an episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on February 4
Forbes magazine ranks celebrities based upon by E-Poll Market Research which ranks more than 6,600 celebrities on 46 different personality attributes based on their polling data of Americans. Steven Spielberg managed to oust Oprah Winfrey from the top spot scoring a 47% influence rating, which the magazine states means "that 47% of the U.S. population believes he is influential.” By comparison, Lee has a 37 percent rating.