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: 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.