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

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 Gaaark on Monday November 12 2018, @11:44PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Monday November 12 2018, @11:44PM (#761097) Journal

    This makes me think of what they did to Superman: he could kick your ass...unless you had kryptonite, then he couldn't. Lame.

    The inevitable happened. You can't use the same piece of kryptonite against Superman twice.

    Wait...what? Why?

    He can't fly, he can only jump and go fast because he's used to much higher gravity. WAIT...he CAN fly! Yeah.

    NOW, he has Laser Eyes! Yeah!

    Now...ah feck it, let's just kill him. BIG SALES! Ah just kidding...he's not dead. Ha. Ha. Ha.

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:25AM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:25AM (#761107)

    You may have just cleared up why I have always disliked Superman. I could never quite put my finger on it.

    I am old enough to remember the crushing disappointment after seeing the 1978 Superman movie (which Wikipedia notes enjoyed critical acclaim).

    My mates thought I was nuts, but I just never "believed" Superman.

    The Batman movie with Jack Nicholson I thought was pretty good, but then Batman was actually at risk at some point. Then, of course DC (or whoever owns the rights) has just repeated the formula every few years to suck further blood out of the stone.