WonderCon 2025

WonderCon special guest Danny Fingeroth spent 18 years at Marvel, where he ran the Spider-Man line and wrote hundreds of comics. As a cultural historian, Danny’s books include Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society and Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero. His 2019 biography of Stan Lee, A Marvelous Life, tackles the controversies surrounding Lee. Danny’s most recent book, 2023’s Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin, chronicles Ruby’s bizarre life. Today, Danny speaks about his career with popular culture expert Travis Langley (Spider-Man Psychology: Untangling Webs).