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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 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.
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.
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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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That's sad, but at least there is no man who can muck with what he left behind...
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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.
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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!
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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 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.
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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)
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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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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Surely we can make it work in real life just this once?
I'm not going to stay it is impossible but it will be a bitch. Re spawning in Real Life is not as easy in comic or video games. Last guy who done it took 3 days and he had to be in god mode.
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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.
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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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.)
Did he break your keyboard too? it appears your cap lock needs checking.