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Joan Lee, Stan's Wife of 69 Years, Passed Away At Age 95 (hollywoodreporter.com)
Reader McGruber writes: The Hollywood Reporter has the sad news that Joan Lee, the wife of Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 95. In an earlier story, Stan described meeting Joan: "When I was young, there was one girl I drew; one body and face and hair. It was my idea of what a girl should be. The perfect woman. And when I got out of the Army, somebody, a cousin of mine, knew a model, a hat model at a place called Laden Hats. He said, 'Stan, there's this really pretty girl named Betty. I think you'd like her. She might like you. Why don't you go over and ask her to lunch.' Blah, blah, blah. "So I went up to this place. Betty didn't answer the door. But Joan answered, and she was the head model. I took one look at her -- and she was the girl I had been drawing all my life. And then I heard the English accent. And I'm a nut for English accents! She said, 'May I help you?' And I took a look at her, and I think I said something crazy like, 'I love you.' I don't remember exactly. But anyway, I took her to lunch. I never met Betty, the other girl. I think I proposed to [Joan] at lunch." After marrying, the couple returned to New York, where Lee worked at Marvel Comics forerunner Timely/Atlas Comics, a job he initially landed because his cousin Martin Goodman owned the company. Comics were a middling enterprise until Lee and Jack Kirby co-created the Fantastic Four in 1961 (followed by the Hulk, Avengers, Iron Man, X-Men and other characters) and turned the company, renamed Marvel Comics, into a pop culture powerhouse. In some versions of the origin of the Fantastic Four, Lee credits Joan with inspiring him. He was depressed about his career (Lee had dreams of becoming a serious novelist) and the state of comics (the industry in the 1950s was dominated by stories of war, science fiction and romance, genres he didn't like) and contemplated leaving the business. "Before you quit," Joan told him, "why don't you write one comic you are proud of?" And thus was born the Fantastic Four.
Stan stole her from Jack Kirby, just like everything else.
And also sorry that he probably won't be around very long, people who lose a longtime spouse often die in the next 3-6 months.
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I've known of number of old married people with 50+ years of marriage; and if the wife passed away first, the husband maybe lived up to 2 years beyond that.
I hate to say it but Stan has been sitting down in the last few cameos. Being married to someone for that long can usually means that the one left will decline rapidly. My granddad didn't last a month after my grandmother passed and they were married for 71 years.
May we all be so lucky
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
My grandfather died about 15 years ago and we figured grandma would go soon after. Nope, she kept on going. Then about 2 years ago, her long-time milkman died. She dropped upon hearing the news.
Weird.
I lost a grandfather (also 95) last month.
The good ones always go too soon, no matter how we count the years.
Thank goodness you're here to add thoughtful and worthwhile content.
Honest-to-FSM question. What kinds of responses are you hoping for from this troll?
When BSD died, I went through the five stages of grief. Ultimately I turned my will over to a higher power. I also planted a small tree to remember BSD by. Unfortunately it was killed a few years later by the pine beetle.
I can't take any more death. I will throw some quarters into the fountain at the mall in memory of Stan's wife. They gather those coins up every Labor Day and donate them to Jerry's Kids. After I get home from the mall tonight I'm also going to watch Jerry "the spaz" Lewis in the original "Nutty Professor". He will calm me down and help assuage my grief, a grief not only for BSD, but also for the dead little pine tree that followed in BSD's footsteps. But most especially the sorrow I feel over the passing of Mrs. Stan Lee.
I'm nowhere near that age and I'm already pretty stinky. Farts in particular are much nastier than in my youth. I'm hoping that if I ever get that old, my farts will be like a dusty, dry wind without any odor.
The way he's been cameoing around with younger buxom ladies in Marvel movies lately, he might be like the Hef and last many years past his expiry preying on the bodies of the young and buxom! :)
Where does it say the facts won't be presented at least one more time after death? Say in purgatory or something? I mean that would be in line with something Jesus would do.
I will only post as AC due to the re-positioning of /. as an astro-turfing tool
That's like, "The pizza had rat turds on it, so I only had two slices."
Get bent. The behavior you're displaying here is not Christian like at all.
No
Refusing to lend credibility to a pizza joint that sells rat-turd infused products does not mean that I cannot write graffiti to that effect on their walls
Rat turds are o.k. They contain electrolytes.
I've got some Prik Kee Noo Suan peppers growing in my garden, they are great on anything, even pizza
fyi, literal translation from Thai is Rat Turd Pepper
For her contributions to science and computers.
Most of us would just leave the pizza joint.
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Who are you talking about?
I thought maybe you meant Bob Dylan, but he's still alive, and he doesn't have a middle (stage) name.
p.s. I also assume you're not talking about Berkeley Software Distribution or Big Swinging Dick.
my condolences, but news for nerds? do nerds actually like that spandex crime fighting fantasy garbage? i thought comic book fans were more in the loser or at least the dork spectrum
We're not plants.
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Probably NetBSD/OpenBSD?
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I can only imagine the hole left in Stan Lee's life. I've been with my wife for 16 years and just the thought of her passing away is incredibly depressing, to say the least. Stan, my heart goes out to you. God speed to your wife.
It's a sad sad day when someone on Slashdot has to ask "What's BSD?". Now get off my lawn, you whippersnappers.
he still has more to offer, I know now he only does cameos but SuperHumans wasnt that long ago..
he's a cartoonists, sure the kids love his super-heroes, but why is both him and his wife portraited and spoken of as some saviours of mankind or something? He draws cartoons of super heroes!!
... those must have been when you could meet the woman of your dreams like that and be together until death thou part.
Nigh impossible with most ladies today.
I envy him.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Wow. You're only the 2nd moron who missed "p.s. I also assume you're not talking about Berkeley Software Distribution."
BSD is another name for an operating system called Net-2 which was written by Bill Jollitz and Linda Jollitz. It went through several name changes but then it died. Hobbyists still tinker with its remnants and have various pet names for their hobby versions. Minix popularized by Andrew Tannenbaum (Bob Dylan's childhood friend) is probably the most popular BSD derived softwares. It uses a cute raccoon named Rascal for its logo. Because of BSD using a raccoon for its logo, BSD hobbyists are affectionately referred to as "coons".
Since we're confidently predicting afterlife here: I predict you'll be reincarnated as a bookworm, to teach you the true relevance of the printed word. Bibles will be your favourite food.
In modern times, everyone feels like technology enables them to have "better options" than they really have.
Instead of just walking up to a woman who strikes you as amazing, expressing that interest, and it potentially sparking a great relationship? Now you have to compete with all the "Hot or Not?" and Tindr type web sites that encourage you to just flip through hundreds of photos of people you might find physically attractive. You can potentially hook up with ANY of them with just the swipe of your finger.
That causes the "kid in a candy store" syndrome, where it feels like you have so many available choices, any one individual is rather disposable and will be judged against all of those others.
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...but yours is one of the weirdest