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Legendary Marvel Comics Writer-Editor Stan Lee Has Died at Age 95

posted by martyb on Monday November 12 2018, @08:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the R.I.P. dept.

martyb writes:

Reports are coming in from all across the web that Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee has died:

Stan Lee—the Marvel Comics legend responsible for cultural icons from Spider-Man and Iron Man to X-Men and Black Panther—has died according to multiple reports from places like TMZ and The Hollywood Reporter [(THR)].

THR spoke with a source that said Lee died early Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. TMZ spoke to Lee's daughter, J.C., who said an ambulance rushed to Lee's Hollywood Hills home early Monday morning to take him to Cedars-Sinai. That outlet noted Lee had suffered several illnesses over the last year or so, including dealing with pneumonia. Lee was 95 years old.

[...] Indisputably, Lee's decades-spanning career has spawned some of the most beloved pop culture characters and franchises of all time. He began working on comics as an assistant at Timely Comics in 1939; that entity would eventually morph into Marvel Comics in the 1960s. Alongside other eventual giants of the industry like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, Lee helped create seemingly every adored comic hero this side of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman: in addition to the credits above, Lee had a hand in the Hulk, Doctor Strange, the Fantastic Four, Daredevil, and characters like Ant-Man and Thor.

Also at: Hollywood Reporter, The Daily Beast, c|net, ComicBook.com, and NPR.

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  • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Monday November 12 2018, @08:51PM (3 children)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 12 2018, @08:51PM (#761038) Journal

    RIP.

    I hope Stan told Marvel to keep using his image forever and that they keep doing so giving him perpetual cameo appearances going forward.

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  • (Score: 2) by srobert on Monday November 12 2018, @09:03PM

    by srobert (4803) on Monday November 12 2018, @09:03PM (#761043)

    Stan's next cameo appearance will be in The Underground.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @10:05PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @10:05PM (#761059)

    Now that Disney is involved, you can bet they will CGI him everywhere and drag his likeness thru the mud for decades, like they are going to do with Carrie and Cushing

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday November 12 2018, @11:46PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Monday November 12 2018, @11:46PM (#761099) Journal

      Nah. Star Wars is dying. Obituary will be in the paper soon.

      (Paper...what the hell is that?)

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