An ex-assistant claims working for Stan Lee was far from a super experience.
The comic book icon has been hit with a lawsuit accusing him and his family of demeaning, verbally abusing and ripping off a man who recently worked as his personal assistant.
Shawn Lukaszewicz claims Lee and his daughter and wife terrorized him during his stint as their personal assistant from November until June, subjecting him to foul-mouthed tirades when he made mistakes and failing to pay him for working virtually round-the-clock, Courthouse News Service reports.
In mid-November, the suit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court claimed, Lee’s daughter, Joan Celia, also called J.C., 65, told Lukaszewicz to deliver some mail to the Spider-Man co-creator’s house.
When he rang the bell, the 92-year-old Lee allegedly answered the intercom and told him to “get the f-out and never ring my damn doorbell again.”
Months later, Lukaszewicz, who was paid $40 an hour for 40 hours but expected to be on call 24/7, claims Lee ripped into him during a car ride to a meeting with boxer Manny Pacquiao, telling his young assistant he was driving too slow.
When Pacquiao was a no-show — the suit says he was preparing to fly to Las Vegas for his May 1 fight with Floyd Mayweather — Lee flew into a Hulk-style rage, calling Lukaszewicz a “f— idiot” and claiming everyone they worked with “thinks you are a f— a–hole.”
J.C. Lee was particularly abusive, the suit contends. On one occasion, she sent the assistant a text calling him a “disloyal s—” and also once referred to him as her “little bitch.”
In March, Lukaszewicz says he was running errands for J.C. Lee to help her get ready for Easter when he decided to buy her an Easter basket as a gift.
When he gave it to her, Lee purportedly screamed, “You must be f— retarded … Why do I need a f— Easter basket?”
“There must be something wrong with your brain,” she shouted, according to the suit.
The lawsuit says Lee later called to apologize, as did her lawyer, who claimed, “She was just drunk.”
Thing came to a head in early June, when Lukaszewicz was tasked with driving Lee to San Francisco from Los Angeles.
During the trip, the suit asserts that Lee smoked weed for the entire ride and, when they arrived at her hotel, ordered Lukaszewicz to drive around the block a few times to air out the car.
When Lukaszewicz complained that he was not being paid for his extra time, she allegedly kicked him out of the car, screaming, “You are done. You are done.”
He ended up abandoned in San Francisco and was forced to make it back to L.A. on his own, the suit claims.
Lukaszewicz’s suit accuses the Lees of intentionally inflicting emotional distress, failure to pay wages, wrongful firing and other labor violations.
Stan Lee’s POW Entertainment and his wife, Joan, are also named as defendants.
Lee and POW did not immediately respond to the Daily News’ requests for comment.
Lee is the mastermind behind Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, X-Men and several other of Marvel Comics’ most popular characters.
