After seeing the thread about Stan Lee potentially leaving this Earthly realm in the near future, I thought I'd make a thread to challenge GAF's whimsy.
So here you have it:
Would you rather have lived Stan the Man's life of abundant creativity, being a cornerstone of an art form and a cultural pioneer?
Or would you rather be The Hef, a visionary playboy that challenged the social norms and got to live in a mansion full of beautiful women?
A few facts to help you decide.
Stanley Martin Lieber (born December 28, 1922), better known by the pen name Stan Lee, is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
In collaboration with several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and many other fictional characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. In addition, he headed the first major successful challenge to the industry's censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, and forced it to reform its policies. Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.
Hugh Hefner launched Playboy. The undated first issue, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot.
Hefner remade himself as a bon viveur and man about town, a lifestyle he promoted in his magazine and two TV shows he hosted, Playboy's Penthouse (19591960) and Playboy After Dark (19691970). He admitted to being "'involved' with maybe eleven out of twelve months' worth of Playmates" during some of these years. Donna Michelle, Marilyn Cole, Lillian Müller, Shannon Tweed, Brande Roderick, Barbi Benton, Karen Christy, Sondra Theodore, and Carrie Leigh were a few of his many lovers. In 1971, he acknowledged that he experimented in bisexuality.
Hefner then began to move an ever-changing coterie of young women into the mansion, even dating up to seven girls at once, among them, Brande Roderick, Izabella St. James, Tina Marie Jordan, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson.
I will withhold my answer for now.