His commitment to the comics fandom went deep: Martin was first in line for the first ever New York City Comic Convention in 1964, and received a “#1 comic-fan” badge for his trouble.Unfortunately, Lee “doesn’t have the vaguest idea who the hell I am.” Since finding success, Martin has met Stan Lee “a dozen times” at conventions.Martin has since been compared to Shakespeare himself. In one letter, he said Stan Lee was a better writer than Shakespeare.One of his first published works was a fan letter in Fantastic Four #20.He was a huge Marvel and DC Comics fan as a child, and became an active member of pre-Internet fandom, contributing to fanzines and chain letters.He also did dramatic readings of his own works, which echoes the early years of Hans Christian Andersen. As a kid, he made up stories and sold them to neighborhood children for pennies.And thus, the first seeds for ASOIAF were planted. He kept the turtles in a toy castle, and as they often died, Martin began to imagine that they were all scheming to kill each other off.As a child, Martin chiefly wrote stories about a mythical kingdom inhabited by his pet turtles.He has described his father as “a functioning alcoholic,” which influenced his writing.citizens that most (including himself) are descended from immigrants themselves. Martin isn’t afraid of getting political, and recently wrote a blog post celebrating immigrants, and reminding U.S.Martin’s father was Italian, and his mother was half Irish.He was born George Raymond Martin, and added the second R (for Richard) at age 13.
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