Stan Lee's Hair

[Dr Rock]

What's the story?

[Pauline Walnuts]

That's one of his superpowers

[Indomitable Spirit]

The fact he has a completely different face is more notable for me personally.

[bgmnts]

He was bitten by a radioactive Burton Reynolds.

[Blue Jam]

What's the story?

He became a porn star?

[letsgobrian]

Jack Kirby demonstrates the transformation in Mister Miracle.

[FredNurke]

He was bitten by a radioactive Burton Reynolds.

I presume at some point I'm going to stop laughing at this, but it hasn't happened yet.

[Shaky]

Probably swiped a colleague's wig and moustache while he was pinching their work.

[Blue Jam]

Anyone else keep reading the thread title as "Stewart Lee's hair"? It's driving me mad.

[Funcrusher]

I heard an interview recently with a Marvel writer who started there as an office boy and one of his first jobs was to go and pick up and discreetly deliver Stan Lee's toupee.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Gotta admit it'sa great toup

[Dr Rock]

It is, he looks fantastic. Second part of the mystery, here he is in Mallrats (1995) rocking a solid, slicked back look he'd been sporting since the early 80s. Wig? No apparently it's a 'Fleming-Myer flap' where skin that grows hair is removed and put in the bits where there's no growth



One giveaway of this procedure is a fine white line along the hairline - Stan had one of these.

However this technique wasn't available until about the year 2000 - so how did Stan seemingly have one in the mid-90s and possibly before? Access to top-secret LA pioneers? Stallone and Trump are also believed to have had Fleming-Myer flaps.

Or maybe the Mallrats Stan is just wearing a good wig?

[Magnum Valentino]

Yeah, makes sense for a movie production they'd have access to good wigs and prosthetics.

[The Culture Bunker]

I did like how for the last 30-odd years of his life he had hair that didn't appear to grow, but I found it more weird he married (and remained so for 70 years) a lass from Newcastle.

[buzby]

However this technique wasn't available until about the year 2000 - so how did Stan seemingly have one in the mid-90s and possibly before? Access to top-secret LA pioneers? Stallone and Trump are also believed to have had Fleming-Myer flaps.

Late 70s/early 80s are when the Juri Flap and it's derivatives such as that developed by Fleming and Meyer came to prominence as scalp reduction techniques (the Juri Flap procedure dates back to 1969 when it was first performed by Jose and Carlos Juri). There's a research paper published in 1979 from a surgeon describing two years of using the Juri Flap method.

[rack and peanut]

I did like how for the last 30-odd years of his life he had hair that didn't appear to grow, but I found it more weird he married (and remained so for 70 years) a lass from Newcastle.

Howay-Woman?

[Dr Rock]

Late 70s/early 80s are when the Juri Flap and it's derivatives such as that developed by Fleming and Meyer came to prominence as scalp reduction techniques (the Juri Flap procedure dates back to 1969 when it was first performed by Jose and Carlos Juri). There's a research paper published in 1979 from a surgeon describing two years of using the Juri Flap method.

Thanks Buzby! That's that mystery solved. Is there anything you don't know?

[PlanktonSideburns]

Feel like a good toup should be more respected than a surgical procedure

[jamiefairlie]

Late 70s/early 80s are when the Juri Flap and it's derivatives such as that developed by Fleming and Meyer came to prominence as scalp reduction techniques (the Juri Flap procedure dates back to 1969 when it was first performed by Jose and Carlos Juri). There's a research paper published in 1979 from a surgeon describing two years of using the Juri Flap method.

Juri Flap, 23 appearances for Finland, 2 goals. 1974 -1979.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

imagining some marvel comics artist slowly losing his barnet follicle by follicle as new hairs appear on stan's head

"these were mine i came up with them myself forsooth"

[Paul Calf]

What's the story?

1979

[ajsmith2]

Looks good to me

[bigfatheart]

He was never actually bald in the first place, Vince Colletta just erased all his hair to save time.

[Butchers Blind]

Always amazed by those fellas who have been bald/balding for some time then have the brassneck to just rock up the next day with a full head of fake hair like nothing's unusual. Example, Bruce Forsyth in the 80's.

[The Culture Bunker]

Always amazed by those fellas who have been bald/balding for some time then have the brassneck to just rock up the next day with a full head of fake hair like nothing's unusual. Example, Bruce Forsyth in the 80's.

Robin Gibb was my favourite example of this. I remember the Bee Gees promoting some mid/late 90s bit of pap ('Alone', I think) and his hairline had finally caught up to that of his twin. Skip forward a few years, and he had a full mop back on.

[Butchers Blind]

Paul Daniels, another one in the 80's who thought he could just turn up on TV the next week with hat hair and no-one would notice.

[Dr Rock]

I think it's perfectly acceptable.

[ZoyzaSorris]

Love it in when you catch a post text but not the name whilst scrolling on phone and you just know immediately before you look it's buzby. Of course he has an detailed knowledge of obscure hair graft procedures 

[Magnum Valentino]

He was never actually bald in the first place, Vince Colletta just erased all his hair to save time.

Excellent post.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Always amazed by those fellas who have been bald/balding for some time then have the brassneck to just rock up the next day with a full head of fake hair like nothing's unusual. Example, Bruce Forsyth in the 80's.

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