Hasta La Gadget!

After more than half a century in the comics industry, Stan Lee has yet to slow down. The 86-year-old Spider-man creator speaks with the speed and enthusiasm of a man a fraction of his age, especially when discussing his latest project, “Time Jumper.” He’s also not content to let the latest technology pass him by.

“I have so little time that every day what I do is just Google the name ‘Stan Lee,’ and I Google the name ‘Pow Entertainment,’ to see what people are writing about me and the company,” explains Lee. “So I get a lot of things that way, but I don’t have time to do any more. I’d be sitting in front of the computer all day–which I’d love to do–but I haven’t got the time.”

Lee’s also the proud if somewhat baffled owner of the industry’s hottest handset. “I bought an iPhone, but it’s a total mystery to me,” he told Gearlog. “I like to scan the Internet and I like to play with my telephone. I’m the only guy who has this old-fashioned type of phone. This is still one of the first models ever made. I’m still trying to learn how to get my messages on it, but it’ll come to me, eventually.”

And while the intricacies of mobile technology may baffle him, Lee has the whole home theater thing down pat. “I don’t know if you have DirectTV, but starting with number 501, you get HBO and a million old movies. I just thumb through until I find something that catches my eye. I also belong to Netflix. I go through the list of old movies and catch the ones I’ve missed. So I’m really up to date, as long as we go back about a year ago.”