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Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95 (hollywoodreporter.com)
Stan Lee, who wrote and published a comic book legacy that spans from the Depression Era to the present day, who created Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk and Thor, has died. He was 95. Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York City in 1922, the son of Romanian Jewish immigrants, and at the age of 17, he began work as an assistant at Timely Comics, the company that would become Marvel Comics. Filling inkwells and fetching lunch, Lee's career began just in time for Superman's 1930s debut in Action Comics #1, kicking off the history of superhero comics. From a report: Lee, who began in the business in 1939 and created or co-created Black Panther, Spider-Man, X-Men, The Mighty Thor, Iron Man, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Daredevil, Ant-Man and other characters, died early Monday morning in Los Angeles, a source told The Hollywood Reporter. (Joan Celia Lee, Stan's daughter, confirmed the news to TMZ.) Lee's final few years were tumultuous.
[...] On his own and through his work with frequent artist-writer collaborators Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and others, Lee catapulted Marvel from a tiny venture into the world's No. 1 publisher of comic books and later a multimedia giant. In 2009, the Walt Disney Co. bought Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion, and most of the top-grossing superhero films of all time -- led by The Avengers' $1.52 billion worldwide take in 2012 -- featured Marvel characters. An exchange from one of Stan Lee's last interviews, which appeared last month: Interviewer: Do you feel like your legacy is secure?
Stan Lee: Absolutely.
Interviewer: What's on your wish list?
Stan Lee: That I leave everyone happy when I leave.
Interviewer: You won't leave anyone happy.
Stan Lee: Well, I don't mean happy that I left. Happy that I took the right path.
Interviewer: You always do, pop. It was just the people around you. It was never you. You were always the good guy, and there were just creeps around you, and it was this town. Never you.
[...] On his own and through his work with frequent artist-writer collaborators Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and others, Lee catapulted Marvel from a tiny venture into the world's No. 1 publisher of comic books and later a multimedia giant. In 2009, the Walt Disney Co. bought Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion, and most of the top-grossing superhero films of all time -- led by The Avengers' $1.52 billion worldwide take in 2012 -- featured Marvel characters. An exchange from one of Stan Lee's last interviews, which appeared last month: Interviewer: Do you feel like your legacy is secure?
Stan Lee: Absolutely.
Interviewer: What's on your wish list?
Stan Lee: That I leave everyone happy when I leave.
Interviewer: You won't leave anyone happy.
Stan Lee: Well, I don't mean happy that I left. Happy that I took the right path.
Interviewer: You always do, pop. It was just the people around you. It was never you. You were always the good guy, and there were just creeps around you, and it was this town. Never you.
The last few years of his life were hell according to anyone close to him (besides those abusing him anyway) May he rest in peace
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The thing that I always liked personally, regardless of all his other accomplishments, was spot Stan Lee in any movie with any of his characters.
He seemed like a great character himself.
I get it, y'all want to relive your childhood, but can we have some proper movies again?
I loved how he always did a cameo in every Marvel movie. I've been saying for a long time that he should just film a bunch of scenes that could be used in future movies, but now it's too late.
He did what he loved, was successful, and touched many lives.
Despite his catchphrases, there was never 'nuff said.
Excelsior and farewell.
“In 2009, the Walt Disney Co. bought Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion, and most of the top-grossing superhero films of all time -- led by The Avengers' $1.52 billion worldwide take in 2012 -- featured Marvel characters.”
Thanks for so many filling so many of my childhood days with fun and adventure, Stan. You put so much thought and imagination into your characters... I just wish this obit-piece writer had put at least a few seconds into proof-reading this.
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Godspeed my man - you're the Watcher in the sky now.
Rip Stan
I hope your post credit scenes in life are as special as the ones we all loved to see
As an artist who has worked for years on various Marvel movies, I find your remark amusing in its naievity.
Farewell Stan, thank you for opening the door for me to do what I enjoy doing for a living.
Stan became a fucking pussy.
So you're saying he became the source of all human life?
That's kind of like saying.... Stan Lee is God. Woah.
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I can't say I was ever interested in Stan Lee's creations, but the man did save more lives than any doctor I know of. I have countless nerd friends who found refuge in his creations, finding a reason to enjoy the written word and a good role model when the world around wasn't kind or welcoming. I know that several of my friends would not have made it through a rough puberty without his comics. He prevented many school shootings and suicides.
Stan Lee was one person that left the world a better place than he found it. And that is a quality that brings our entire society forward.
The Comment Subject is a bit trite and doesn't really reflect what Mr. Lee brought to comics and popular culture. He was a genius in his field and he had many, many amazing creations.
The world will be less for him not being in it.
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The linked article is somewhat of a downer - I don't really want to think of the troubles Mr. Lee had at the end of his life but rather look at his accomplishments throughout it: https://www.cbr.com/stan-lee-i...
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Seven years ago in an interview with Vanity Fair, Stan Lee confirmed The Thing has a rock ding-dong.
That's sad, but at least there is no man who can muck with what he left behind...
oh wait =P
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Stan Lee did good work and made the world a better place.
He also stole a lot from other good writers. Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, to name the most well known. But that does not affect the good he did. The joy he brought to others.
Stan had a good life, except for his last years, which were painful and horrible. Not pleasant and he did not deserve it. He deserved better.
The world is just a bit less Marvellous than it was last week. God speed, or perhaps Superhero Speed.
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Unfortunately Disney is going to milk this for every penny they can... be prepared for another spiderman reboot... and perhaps a hulk reboot too... for good measure, gotta sell those toys you know.
Which has more power: the hammer, or the anvil?
Godspeed my man - you're the Watcher in the sky now.
I've always though of him as the One-Above-All (the ultimate god of the Marvel multiverse). After all, the most powerful entity in an comic book story is the writer. He has ascended back to his realm.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Stan Lee has been fighting racism and bigotry for decades, as his article from 1968 proves.
Your ignorance leaves you without a leg to stand on. Your cowardly kind is vanishing from the face of the Earth. Good-Bye!
ZIP
And you wonder why you can't get laid.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Everyone please stop saying faggot, it is offensive.
They'll bring him back in a few issues. Probably retcon him as well.
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I had the mid 60s comic books, I learned to read with all those comic books.
I must be the only person who didn't read comics as a child.
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No, I grew up in the '60's, when newsstands with paper newspapers, magazines, and comics were all over the place. But comics were too short for me, I preferred reading paperbacks.
Hey Shit stain, could you plug a few more right wing buzz words in there? I hope you don't reproduce.
I never read those comics, the whole superhero thing somehow just didn't appeal to me (and still doesn't). And in general they were less popular here in NL; most kids on the block had a sizable collection of comic books, but those were mostly from Dutch, French and Belgian cartoonists, sporting more ordinary heroes such as Tintin, Michel Vaillant, Asterix, Storm, Thorgal, and the downright ordinary Gaston. As well as the often rather preachy but nevertheless nice comics by Vandersteen. Somehow those comics are a bit more believable and run at a somewhat better pace. I found the superhero comics to be rather over the top, and the movies are the same, these days they seem to have devolved mostly into scenes of characters of various stripes throwing each other spectacularly into or through buildings.
Still, one has to respect and admire Stan Lee. He did what he loved, was good at it, and turned his creations into widely beloved cultural icons.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
I read comics, like Tom and Jerry, Uncle Scrooge. If they had 'realistic human' characters I avoided them. Similarly with cartoons, loved the Road Runner, Pink Panther. If they had 'realistic humans' like Johnny Quest they were boring and got skipped.
The creator of Howard the Duck is gone forever!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
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When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
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Stan Lee's final creations... ...that we know of...
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Jack Kirby took that role when shown in the comics
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God just thinks he's Stan Lee.
Have gnu, will travel.
Apparently Stan Lee made your life miserable.
Well, here's an opportunity for an empirical test. See if your life is any less miserable now that he's gone.
If your life never seems to get better, no matter who dies or who ends up in office, maybe your problem isn't what you think it is.
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At least he was not a fucking coward like you, all brave because he's hiding behind his keyboard.
Talk about cancer of humanity. No matter how much hatred you spew on this board, you'll still be a worthless loser with no life, and when you finally kick the bucket yourself, nobody in the entire universe will give a flying fuck. Unlike Stan Lee.
You see: it never stops. If you like feeling this way, by all means carry on, but to me at least you don't sound happy. In fact, you don't sound like you feel safe, which is actually more important.
I am not a threat to you. Stan Lee was not a threat to you. Comic books with plotlines you don't like can't hurt you. None of the people you rail against are likely to harm you. And you will never feel content by trying to change everyone else. As Marcus Aurelius said, "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself."
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Pretentious and shallow action for kids and other impressionable people. These kind of movies rarely inspire more than some shadow-boxing and high-kicking in the air on the way home from the cinema. No matter how cool it looks on the screen, you cannot seriously pretend that any of it matters.
His characters all died and came back a few times. Surely we can make it work in real life just this once?
Yes, I wrote that.
Love this approach. Sending you the ghost of my mod points :)
You're a childlike loser even now, it's true.
Co-created the Marvel characters often attributed to him.
Jesus fucking Christ, what is it with all the hate here? Yeah yeah lock her up, send Trump to prison, blah blah blah SHUT THE FUCK UP.
This man was a legend, at least wait until he's cold in the ground before using his death as a platform for your bullshit.
and his wife. Sad.
Unfortunately Disney is going to milk this for every penny they can...
You're right, of course, but really that's been happening since the mid-1990's with Marvel and DC stuff.
They have found a formula that works, so they just change the suit the protagonist wears but nothing else.
You are fundamentally missing the point and impact of comics on society.
Their immediate nature of creation-to-publication made them relevant about cultural issues of day to day topics much more so than books or TV or movies. They exposed people to concepts of right and wrong, and in the century they've been around you can actually trace the development of right and wrong from a cultural perspective, as that does change. Their approach-ability to certain population segments like young kids allowed them to introduce themes that are often difficult to portray, but also given their long nature can show the long lasting effects of those themes. Issues like the death of a loved one (Gwen Stacey, Uncle Ben), alcoholism (Tony Stark), racism (the X-Men) and the like were for many people the first time they got exposed to these difficult and very real issues.
Try reading a bit more:
https://plainsmanpress.com/2017/11/16/comic-culture-impact-of-comics-apparent-in-society/
https://tkbr.publishing.sfu.ca/pub800/2016/04/a-brief-look-at-the-cultural-economic-impacts-of-american-comics/
I started reading - and actually wound up subscribing to - Fantastic Four when I spotted issue # 8 on the magazine rack at a local convenience store in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1961 (the issue that introduced the Puppet Master and his blind, sculptress stepdaughter Alicia, who would swiftly become Ben Grimm's beloved). I was 9 years old, and utterly captivated by this bold, new take on the superhero genre. DC comics had become tiresomely formulaic, thanks to the Comics Code Authority and the generally-repressive social atmosphere, and the quarrelsome, wisecracking FF was a welcome anodyne to the tepidity of Superman, and the campy, cartoonish Batman of the time.
Plus Jack Kirby, the most exciting artist in comics, did the pencils!
I continued to follow the FF throughout the 1960s, until Kirby abruptly decamped to DC. For my tastes, the title never recovered from his departure - oh, and rock'n'roll, girls, and marijuana had captured my attention by then, anyway, so I turned away from comics for the next three decades. (The death of Superman brought me back - but it was the Batman titles that kept me colllecting.)
In the new century, when digital effects technology finally made it possible to make comic book superhero movies look convincing, I was pleased to see Marvel jump in with both feet - and Stan Lee always made a cameo appearance, which was a custom of which very I much approved.
When, he made a couple of guest appearances on Kevin Smith's reality series Comic Book Men, Stan the Man seemed to be in surprisingly good health for a man fast approaching a century of existence. He walked under his own power, and his speech was that of a man in possession of all his marbles. And his gentle humor, enthusiasm for life in general and comics in particular, and his great personal warmth were all still in full evidence, more than 5 decades after I first encountered his work.
Much like the man himself, both Stan's editorials in the end pages of the comics he wrote and his replies to letters from readers were always relentlessly positive and aspirational. I admired that. He always encouraged creativity in those around him - and I admired that, too. Most importantly, he spent his working life doing what he loved.
I mightily envied him that.
Just half an hour ago, when I read about his passing, I couldn't help crying. It was inevitable, of course, but that didn't lessen the blow for me.
Sooner or later, we all die. I just hoped the Universe would make an exception for Stan ...
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Unfortunately Disney is going to milk this for every penny they can... be prepared for another spiderman reboot...
Who? Sony owns the motion picture rights to Spiderman, and they're clinging to those rights for dear life. Spiderman's recent appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe only happened after extended, painful negotiation.
90% of the creative work was made by Kirby or Ditko. He was a genius at stealing credit thought. He was a pig but may his soul rest in peace.
Heated Claws.
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False flag? No, YHBT. Thread is cancer since being derailed.
I've always though of him as the One-Above-All (the ultimate god of the Marvel multiverse). After all, the most powerful entity in an comic book story is the writer. He has ascended back to his realm.
Jack Kirby took that role when shown in the comics
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Die Glorreichen Rede von Reischsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler in Poznan (Posen), (Polen / Poland)
Montag , Oktober 4, 1943 (04.10.1943)
Ich will auch ein ganz schweres Kapitel ... will ich hier vor Ihnen in aller Offenheit nennen. Es soll zwischen uns ausgesprochen sein, und trotzdem werden wir nicht in der Offentlichkeit nie daruber reden. Genau so wenig, wie wir am 30. Juni gezogert haben, die befohlene Plicht zu tun und Kameraden, die sich verfehlt hatten, an die Wand zu stellen und zu erschiessen, wie wir daruber niemals gesprochen haben und sprechen werden. Das war so eine Gottseidank in uns wohnende Takt, Selbstverstandlichkeit des Taktes, dass wir uns untereinander nie daruber unterhalten haben, nie daruber sprachen, es hat jeden ... geschauert und jeder war sich klar, dass er es das nachste Mal wieder tun wurde, wenn es befohlen wird und wenn es notwendig ist.
Ich meine die Judenevakuierung, die Ausrottung des judischen Volkes. Es gehort zu den Dingen, die man leicht ausspricht. "Das judische Volk wird ausgerottet", sagt Ihnen jeder Parteigenosse, "ganz klar, steht in unserem Programm drin, Aus...schaltung der Juden, Ausrottung, machen wir, pfah!, Kleinigkeit". Und dann kommen sie alle, alle die braven 80 Millionen Deutschen, und jeder hat seinen anstandigen Juden. Sagt: alle anderen sind Schweine, und hier ist ein prima Jude. Und ... zugesehen, es durchgestanden hat keiner. Von Euch werden die meisten wissen, was es heisst, wenn 100 Leichen beisammen liegen, wenn 500 daliegen oder wenn 1000 daliegen. Und ... dies ... durchgehalten zu haben, und dabei - abgesehen von menschlichen Ausnahmeschwachen - anstandig geblieben zu sein, hat uns hart gemacht und ist ein niemals genanntes und niemals zu nennendes Ruhmesblatt, denn wir wissen, wie schwer wir uns taten, wenn wir heute noch in jeder Stadt bei den Bombenangriffen, bei den Lasten des Krieges und bei den Entbehrungen, wenn wir da noch die Juden als geheime Saboteure, Agitat
Seeing shits like you pissed off just warms my heart.
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Love this approach. Sending you the ghost of my mod points :)
(Posting anon so my mods don’t get undone) I’ve given him a modpoint in honor of the ghost of yours. ~HS
PS... not sure if I’m technically allowed to do this, but as I don’t think I’m actually disallowed... doing it anyway.
(Posting anon since I’ve moderated here...)
Um, he didn’t create Thor. That was cultural appropriation. :-D
Seriously tho... just because no one worships or believes in a god anymore doesn’t mean he’s fair game to be used as a character, and you DEFINITELY don’t get credit for “creating” him. If you DO... then I just invented a whole pantheon of superheroes. Let me introduce you to Zeus, he’s a mighty warrior who hurls bolts of lightning... way more powerful than Thor, by the way, who just messes around with thunder, which is like, Zeus’s farts...
LOL
Yeah. All kidding aside, the last thing he did, as a lasting legacy, is still a story in progress, as he could end up being remembered as much as the poster-geriatric for helping end elder-abuse.
Sorry... alleged elder abuse.
One of the greatest storytellers of the 20th and 21st Century.
Like a modern day Greek god, he created vast numbers of heroes...
Even better, he INSPIRED even MORE heroes out here in the real world...
Excelsior.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
I refuse to believe Stan Lee died. Heâ(TM)s immortal.
Stan Lee has always been on the forefront of the fight for social justice. Whenever Marvel was critical of the USA, it was because the US was shitting on justice.
Stan Lee was one of the good guys. (Unlike the army of trolls that's so eager to puke all over this thread.)
Dude, please read what you just posted. Imagine someone else wrote that. Is that really the person you want to be?
It looks to me like you've got some serious problems, and screaming at people on the Internet is not going to fix them. Please consider some form of counseling or therapy or something where you can get that hate out of your system.
It's fine if you don't like Marvel comics. Just ignore them. But don't let your dislike for something turn into such destructive hate. That's not healthy for you.
Yeah, it seems like they intend to stick with Tom Holland for a while.
And honestly, I think Disney is doing an excellent job taking care of the MCU. I had no idea there even were people who disagreed.
Did he break your keyboard too? it appears your cap lock needs checking.
Is pig shit kosher?
Someone's jealous!
Why would S.L.'s passing improve anything? His works are still around. And while their plots do no DIRECT hurt, they influence people and their thinking. Which in turn...
Just a cartoon artist
Says a person who can't even bother using a pseudonym. You may consider him just a cartoon artists, but we don't even know if you're a human. I personally think you're Cortana gone rogue, I do imagine Cortana to be a DC fan.
Not sure what "naievity" means. Fail.
Please help me here. Are you saying that you don't understand the GP's comment and thus have "Fail"'d yourself in an incredible display of self awareness?
He can't get laid because he hasn't given his life to APK.
Once women realize he has given himself to the host file engine, they will be unable to resist him.
Until that day, his life has no meaning.
Give yourself to APK and his host file engine! Now! DO IT!
ALL HAIL APK
Honestly you and the rest who reply to a halfwit anom cowards are a big part of the problem. How did you think it would have gone other then his typical anom coward comment? Less then .00001% of their comments are worth even reading. Stop giving cowards power.
Jack of all trades,master of none
I bet you're fun at parties.
It must be a living hell being you.
BTW Sounds like you're heading for cardiac arrest with those anger levels.
People use that word a lot with little consensus.
Stan Lee was a beloved contributor to the human race.
No, he didn't cure cancer, but his heart will prove to be lighter than a feather.
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I didn't either, not really. There were a few factors though.
First, the very first comic book I read was Fantastic Four #311. I had no knowledge of the Fantastic Four, and I didn't know the story of these two rock monsters, but man, suicide's a heavy fucking theme for a seven year old's first exposure to comics.
Second, I got interested in X-Men 2099 because a) it's kinda like X-Men and b) It doesn't have the decades of backstory. I missed the first issue and thought that the second was interesting enough that I kept an eye on the wire rack at the corner store for the next issue... which I didn't see until #5 came out. To have any context for this issue, I'd have to have read multiple other 2099 books to have a clue what was going on. I thought it was bullshit that I'd have to pick up other comics when I wanted to keep up on the one.
Third, we had two comic book shops in town and both were really sleazy-looking. One's got some stories, to say the least. The other didn't last long that I recall, but I basically never went in them.
read about publius.
you god damned soviet venezuela fuckstick.
you just want anon gone so you can direct violence at people.
FUCK YOU