Stan Lee is notorious for a brief Hitchcock-like cameo in this millenium's successful interpretations of the MARVEL Comic Universe films he rules with titles like SPiderman, XMen, GhostRider and more. In the 1970s when Marvel Comics was installing some legendary artwork and storylines, though, the several television and cinema films made of the material fell far from Stan L's expectations. Poor acting, poor writing and poor timing for TV's Spiderman, or the Incredible Hulk and even a major film about Doctor Strange. By the time 1970s were drawing to a close, Stan Lee was jaded with Hollywood interpreting his materials and so pulled back on a UNIVERSAL film deal to create a sci-fi adventure featuring the SILVER SURFER on the silver screen. His move was absolute but the entire crew and art team and even the casting of 1970s mega-star Olivia Newton-John, as the heroine in distress, was contracted and on stage ready to film without a script. The resulting film XANADU is a hot-headed collaborative committee film made under a tight contract and budgetary restrictions and short falls. Low expectations for the film were grumbled quietly about UNIVERSAL though the recording arm of the studio, MCA, which was contracted for most of OLIVIA NEWTON JOHNS hits, retrieved a large amount of the budget for an exploding art rock-meets swing- meets disco fantasy soundtrack. THE album was a huge hit, much more that the film ever was and now you know that XANADU began in the imaginations of MARVEL COMICS and eventually MARVEL did release a large format storyboarded comic interpretation on cheap newsprint with no soundtrack or lyrics of course. I shall finish with the legendary STan Lee's quick respite finishing all posts in Marvel comic history......"'nuff said.."