Here come The Stan Lee Eagle Awards!

The latest press release.....

The launch of The Stan Lee Eagle Awards 2014

COMICBOOK legend Stan Lee is providing fans around the world with

a fresh opportunity to honour their favourite writers, artists and titles of the previous 

year.

In collaboration with awards director Cassandra Conroy, the co-founder of the Marvel 

Universe is set to officially open The Stan Lee Eagle Awards for nominations on 

April 23rd 2014 at www.stanleeeagleawards.com.

Conroy took over as chair of the original 'Eagle Awards' in 2008 from their founder – her 

father, Mike Conroy – and has spearheaded the awards evolution. 

"My dad's intention was always to give the fans a voice and I'm delighted that this latest 

initiative will take his vision to an entirely new plane." she said.

Dubbed the People's Choice Awards, The Stan Lee Eagle Awards are unique in that they 

offer the only worldwide platform for professionals and non-professionals alike to voice their 

opinions of the work being done in the medium. 

"It'd be great to see more non-English language titles and creators being recognised and 

having such a household name as Stan Lee attached makes virtually anything possible," 

stated Mike Conroy.

"Many view Stan as a comicbook god," he added. "That Stan was the very first inductee on 

to Eagle Awards Roll of Honour back in 1976 just makes Cassandra's coup that much more 

of a personal pleasure for me."

The Stan Lee Eagle Awards will be held annually in July at 

the London Film and Comic Con.

"The original Eagle Awards had a coveted reputation that was well earned and respected. 

But to have Stan 'The Man' Lee offer his brand and patronage to champion The Stan 

Lee Eagle Awards is just incredible," proclaimed Cassandra Conroy, who added. "There 

has been a Conroy behind the Eagle Awards since their inception in 1976. I'm delighted 

that such a legendary creator as Stan has been willing to help me build on my father's 

legacy."

The 2014 prizes will be handed out as part of this year's London Film & Comic Con with the 

inaugural ceremony being held at Earls Court on Saturday, July 12th.

STAN LEE

It is almost impossible to summarise Stan Lee's contributions to the US comic book 

industry. A writer and editor who began his career in 1939 at the age of 16, he almost 

single-handedly ran Timely and Atlas – the precursors to Marvel Comics – writing a 

significant percentage of the stories for a line that consisted primarily of war, western, 

romance and fantasy/monster anthologies from 1941 until 1961 when he partnered with 

artist Jack Kirby to create Marvel's first superheroes in almost a decade. The Fantastic 

Four revived the fortunes of what had been a moribund company, and the collaboration 

between Lee and the legendary King of Comics continued as they followed that runaway

success with a wave of other well-receivedcharacters: Ant-Man (in Tales to Astonish), The 

Incredible Hulk, Thor (in Journey into Mystery), Iron Man (in Tales of Suspense), Sgt 

Fury and his Howling Commandos, The Avengers and X-Men among them.

Stan Lee's attendance at London Film and Comic Con, July 11th - 13th 2014 will be his last 

ever official European convention appearance.

CASSANDRA CONROY

GROWING UP surrounded by comics and immersed in the British comics scene thanks to 

her father, Mike Conroy, it was all but inevitable that Conroy would develop her own love for 

the medium. A face on the UK convention circuit since her early teens, Conroy took over 

the running of the original Eagle Awards from her father in 2008 when she was only 16. 

Determined to reinvent for the 21st century what were originally envisaged as fan awards, 

in 2014 she teamed up with legendary Marvel Universe co-creator Stan Lee to create a new 

worldwide brand in The Stan Lee Eagle Awards. Since 2012, Conroy has been coproducing 

the Comic Zone element of Showmasters' various UK-based multimedia events 

with her father.

MIKE CONROY

ONE OF the UK’s leading comics journalists, Mike Conroy is currently publisher/editor of 

Multiverse, Britain’s leading comics news magazine. He writes the bonus features for all 

the titles in Hachette’s hugely successful Ultimate Marvel Graphic Novel Collection line, 

as well as co-producing Comics Zone, the event-within-an-event at Showmasters’ massive 

nationwide multimedia extravaganzas, with his daughter Cassandra. A veteran comics

journalist, historian, author and biographer, Mike Conroy is also the founder of the Eagle 

Awards. Established in 1976, the Eagle Awards are one of the comics industry’s oldest and 

most coveted international prizes.

More detailed bios at www.stanleeeagleawards.com

London Film and Comic Con (www.londonfilmandcomiccon.com) will run from Friday 11th 

July to Sunday 13th July 2014 in Earls Court 2. The Stan Lee Eagle Awards takes place 

during the evening of the event on Saturday 12th July, doors open from 7pm.