{"product_id":"funko-pop-stan-lee-prototype","title":"Funko Pop — Stan Lee Prototype","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a prototype Funko Pop dedicated to Stan Lee, offered with the edition subsequently released to the public. Prototypes are the origin point of every Funko figure: the pieces from which a design is judged, corrected and approved, and which by their nature are not replicated. Their interest for collectors lies precisely in that position, as a record of the design decision rather than of the finished product.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis example comes from the private collection of David Goldsmith, part of Funko since its early years alongside founder Brian Mariotti and now active in a new venture, Thrilljoy. The provenance places the object inside the company's own history, at the stage where the figure of Stan Lee, the author who shaped American comics and co-created much of the Marvel universe, was being translated into the Pop vocabulary of oversized head, minimal features and instantly legible silhouette.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe figure is accompanied by the public release edition, which establishes a narrative link between the prototype and its final realisation: the two objects document the beginning and the end of a single design process, and together they give this piece a completeness that prototypes rarely have.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collecto Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58053098406228,"sku":"530","price":2915.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/9083\/7588\/files\/file-1729847324628-4-png.png?v=1793382397","url":"https:\/\/collectoarchive.com\/products\/funko-pop-stan-lee-prototype","provider":"Collecto Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}