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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.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @09:40PM (7 children)
What is the connection between superheroes and Jews? Superman, Batman and Spiderman all were thought of by American Jews. This is not a baiting question, I am just interested why the superhero theme was so popular among young Jews who had grown up in the US.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday November 12 2018, @10:32PM (1 child)
And it's not just the escapism of the superhero genre, it's wider fiction generally: Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, Kenneth Arrow, Alan Greenspan, ...
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @05:40AM
You're taking it to farce, but this isn't LOTR-style fantasy world escapism, rather a unique genre of humanoids hiding in society that are (at time of design) capable of some fantastical skill that they choose to dress up in a fancy costume to employ. Later on in the hands of the marketers, they become vulnerable, tools of the government, blah blah. That, and the level of violence portrayed in those societies, has always turned me off to American comics.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday November 12 2018, @11:11PM
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mykl on Monday November 12 2018, @11:38PM (2 children)
Jews were often denied the ability to enter prestigious careers back in the early to mid 20th Century, which is why a lot of them ended up in entertainment.
I remember a great anecdote about the legal profession from the same time. Jews were not invited to join prestigious commercial law firms back in the 1950's, so they found what legal work they could. That included mergers and acquisitions, which was considered a 'dirty business' back in the 1950's and 1960's. When it became all the rage in the 1980's, who were the only firms with decades of experience to help manage some of the largest takeovers at the time?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday November 12 2018, @11:51PM (1 child)
Banking used to be considered a lowly business, so they did that. Guess who had the experience when banking became prestigious/almost.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @05:09AM
Go-fuck-you Sachs, because WASP jp morgan wouldn't let them in.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:59AM
Business side, comics was and is advertising and copyrighting. Superheroes sell well, are easier to protect as IP in a court and advertisers like being associated with positive messages. As for the Jews, like Hollywood, its mostly survivor's bias. Jewish lawyers, creative writers and ad agencies had their own niches due to being discriminated against elsewhere and whenever the industry took a bad turn, the Jews were forced to stick with it and somehow pull through.
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