Posted on 03/22/2018 12:27:04 PM PDT by blueplum
You might expect Stan Lee, at age 95, to be enjoying the fruits of his many labors: Marvel Comics, the company he served as the former president and chairman of, dominates popular culture. Characters he co-created — among them Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men, and the Avengers — are household names. He’s a comics legend, with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. When Marvel sold to Disney in 2010 for $4 billion, he personally pocketed a cool $10 million, and tours the world as its ambassador emeritus. And midway through his tenth decade, Black Panther, based on a character he and Jack Kirby first envisioned in 1966, currently sits atop the global box office charts, and carries a Rotten Tomatoes score of 97%.
Instead, seven months after the death of Joan, his wife of almost 70 years, beset with pneumonia, the apparent victim of gross financial malfeasance and surrounded by a panoply of Hollywood charlatans and mountebanks, he may be facing his greatest challenge, every bit the equal of any of the psychologically flawed superheroes he helped shepherd into being. According to one insider with working knowledge of Lee’s current situation, “It’s a real ----ing mess over there. I think his money will be gone in a few weeks… Stan and [his daughter] JC are literally being picked apart by vultures.”
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Maybe he can live off of the royalties he gets from his appearance on the Big Bang Theory...
His restraining order signature has to be worth something!
How could those compassionate leftists in Hollywood be like this? I thought when I saw them all marching around in their pink hats that they were more caring than the rest of us - there must be some mistake. It must be the conservatives in Hollywood doing this.
He shaped the industry and is an icon but he’s a Hillary loving, flaming Liberal whack job.
I don't think he knows what literally means...
My hero is Jesus Christ. Everything else is the world searching for a hero to right all the wrongs. One is reality, the other is fantasy.
He is, literally, misusing the word literally.
Perhaps the efforts to bring back the California Condor have been more successful than previously thought
I just checked dictionary.
One use of the word ‘literally’ means NOT literally!...............
Is it the same dictionary that has “bootylicious” in it?
The informal definition was added because so many people are “literally dumbasses”...
I was literally shocked!...................
English is, literally, a weird language...
All the other countries say it’s literally the most difficult language to learn................
“Money doesn’t care who it goes to.” — Joseph Myerson, 1873-1956
He got 10 million from a 4 Billion dollar deal ?
Looks like the first peck was from dear ol’ Walt.
Stan made choices about who to surround himself with...he chose wrong
I’ve always thought if you won the lotto, you need to hide away a very huge chunk of cash, put the rest in your solid credit union and flip the finger to the army of financial advisors, stockbrokers, investors, etc.
They saw 10 million as an hors d’oeuvre and scarfed that up like child’s play.
It would shock you how often they do it to themselves. My rich aunt got taken by a Jamaican Sweepstakes Scam. She got greedy and she died penniless.
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