Episode 1

Love Me, Stan Lee--I'll Be Your Superhero
An absolute train wreck of a reality series, and I mean that in a good way--you will often hate yourself for loving this show. I can't honestly say that it's great television, but it's just ridiculous enough to be a pleasantly diverting guilty pleasure. But like sweet candy, once it's gone--you'll barely miss it.

11 contestants, each having developed a superhero persona complete with homemade costume, come together to compete for "the greatest prize in reality show history!" OK, if you think having Stan Lee draw a comic book about you and starring in a bad sci-fi movie are the "greatest prize." But our contestants are ready to go--here's just a sampling: Fat Momma, Monkey Woman, and Cell Phone Girl. Now if, like me, you think seeing a grown plus-sized woman running around in tights with twinkies attached to her belt is a sight you don't want to miss--then this show's for you!

Obviously, the contestants don't have true superpowers. So the challenges are...

"Be a winner, not a wiener"
This may have been the most fun cheesy reality show yet. Really, all one needed was an original superhero concept and a costume and one could try out. On April 4, 2006, about 120 contestants physically auditioned for Stan Lee at the Sunset Gower Studios, Hollywood, CA during a torrential rain storm, vying to be in the final 11-man lineup for the Sci-Fi Channel's WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO? Thousands more had submitted tape auditions. This was a six episode series, hosted and judged by Marvel comic book legend Stan Lee, who is quoted as saying: "We're not going to ask anybody to fly or leap tall buildings with a single bound. We can't test that. But what we can test is this: Every superhero has certain qualities and characteristics on the inside, characteristics like courage, character, honesty, integrity, self-sacrifice, compassion, resourcefulness. We can test that stuff." The winner will be immortalized with his or her own comic book and his/her character will appear in an original...

Stan said No to a thrid season.
to see Stan bad mouth these people (when he really is the world's nicest guy off camera) was just not him. This show was a joke and I am glad he did not want to do more.

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