Stan Lee Dead at 95

TMZ ^ | November 12, 2018 | TMZ

[LostInBayport]

Stan Lee, the man who co-created Marvel Comics, has died ... Stan's daughter tells TMZ.

We're told an ambulance rushed to Lee's Hollywood Hills home early Monday morning and he was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. We're told that's where he died.

Lee had suffered several illnesses over the last year or so -- he had a bout of pneumonia and vision issues.

Stan started Marvel with Jack Kirby in 1961 with The Fantastic Four. He went on to create Spider-Man, Black Panther, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, Iron Man and The Avengers.

Stan made cameo appearances in all of the Marvel movies.

Lee had a rocky relationship with Marvel once the company went full-tilt Hollywood. He sued the company in 2002 for royalties he said he was owed for the first "Spider-Man" movie. Three years later he settled the case for $10 million.

Lee is survived by his daughter, J.C. His wife of 69 years, Joan, died in 2017.

J.C. tells TMZ, "My father loved all of his fans. He was the greatest, most decent man."

Lee was 95.

[MarchonDC09122009]

Stan and his fellow progressive visionaries sure helped change America over the past 60 years.
Many o’ not so manly lad got introduced to walking on the wild side via superhero bulging muscle erotica -

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[cll]

I rather that be the end of the show than Rajeh’s wedding.

[oldvirginian]

First thing I thought of!

Since the scripts for the final season of BBT are already written I wonder how they’ll work this in?

Sheldon has lost his greatest mentors: Leonard Nimoy, Stan Lee and that science guy Hawking.
At least he still has Bill Nye the fake science guy.

[kanawa]

F&G Ping...

[LostInBayport]

Most if not all of the stuff you cite took place long after Stan left the daily production of the comics (and readers like me stopped buying). The “social justice” stuff started in undisguised earnest after Bush’s reelection and that is when many readers, myself included, took our money elsewhere. What is left on the publishing side is abysmal sales and a core audience of liberals. Not a recipe for continued success.

What I am grateful for from Stan Lee is the characters he created that were less about social agendas but more about stories with moral protagonists in fascinating situations striving to do the right thing. The “right thing” is what has been warped in today’s society. The warping of those characters as published today isn’t the cause but a reflection.

[TADSLOS]

RIP.

[PCPOET7]

have nothing but scorn for what you just said. Unless the guy is actually evil what you said was uncalled for. as far as I could see Stan lee was a caring man and while I disagree with his liberalism he is a man who did more good then bad and influenced a lot of kids in a good way with the content of his comics.

[kanawa]

I started with Spiderman #4 and Fantastic Four #17

Travelled from the Toronto area and got to meet him at the first Mighty Marvel Comic Convention at the Hotel Commodore in NYC, 1975

Stan "the Man" Lee and "Our Pal" Sal Buscama signatures

The program had pages with photos of the 'Bullpen' Gang.
I got "Darling' Dick Ayers sig on his pic.

[LostInBayport]

That is a fantastic memento. I came along a bit later, and have always envied the “club” feel Marvel had with its readers in the early days.

[ConservaTexan]

If I valued your opinion your scorn would devastate me; luckily I don’t. If my not being able to laud someone who was supportive of killing the unborn on demand, the selling of the dead baby body parts, unlimited ILLEGAL immigration, confiscating firearms from law abiding citizens, confiscating/redistributing private wealth, disparaging law enforcement and military...then maybe we shouldn’t go out for a drink.

[Alas Babylon!]

Kept me entertained all my life. Thank you Stan Lee!!!!

Loved your last cameo in Venom. Had me thinking chuckling for sure.

[MarchonDC09122009]

Rational action result facts are lost on otherwise logical people who are swayed by fond yesteryear nostalgic emotions.

Lee, Gaines and all media artistic progressive misfits knew EXACTLY what they were doing actively co-opting American Christianity and traditional social cultural convention.

Did you actually think the following came about accidentally?

God was replaced by Super-man

Introduction of homoerotic themes and imagery via power pedastry couple Batman and Robin, and their fellow 1960’s “Justice League” steroid musclebound skin tight costume peers?

Clear thinking Greatest generation WWII veteran US Senators discovered just how deviant comic book NYC liberal publishers and their “artists” really were, quite willingly corrupting the nation’s youth for profit and to propogate progressive taboo ideas to kids.

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Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency

Alarmed by a dramatic rise in juvenile delinquency in the 1950s, Congress explored the possible influence of crime, horror, and superhero comic books on youths’ behavior. To investigate this potential correlation, Senator Robert Hendrickson of New Jersey moved to create a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, who succeeded Hendrickson as chairman of the committee, oversaw a series of televised hearings in New York in the spring of 1954. Following the hearings, comic book publishers voluntarily developed new standards of content control.

This country cannot afford the calculated risk involved in feeding its children, through comic books, a concentrated diet of crime, horror, and violence.

Interim Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, 1955–1956

[kanawa]

When I was a teen, comics inspired me to be the Good Guy, the Hero not the Villain.

[LostInBayport]

Introduction of homoerotic themes and imagery via power pedastry couple Batman and Robin, and their fellow 1960’s “Justice League” steroid musclebound skin tight costume peers?

Oh come on. Robin was added to give young readers someone to identify with. Superhero sidekicks helped sell books. It wasn't some grand plan to push perversion. Who thinks that way?

As for the skin tight costumes, well, I doubt any kid wanted to read about fat superheroes wearing sweatpants. Otherwise Lena Dunham would have played Wonder Woman in that movie.

I'll give you that some of the EC stuff was twisted and probably aimed at adults. But the superheroes were about appealing to a sense of adventure and imagination. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, said someone once.

[Future Snake Eater]

Robin was added to give young readers someone to identify with. Superhero sidekicks helped sell books. It wasn't some grand plan to push perversion. Who thinks that way?

A lot of dopes around here, that's who.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I was introduced to Stan Lee by a late 1960's satirical comic book entitled Not Brand ECCH! It was published for only a few years but I actually bought a few issues (and I've never been a comic book person). As a matter of fact, I actually bought the first issue just a few years ago. (It was initially supposed to be titled Brand ECCH! but it was preceded by the word "not" (in answer to the question "who says a comic book has to be good?), and it eventually became part of the title.

It was very much like the old MAD comic book before it became a magazine, with silly signs all over the panels. I've often wished they'd continued publishing it, but even if they did, you can't buy comic books at the supermarket any more.

Anyway, while I had seen some Marvel cartoons on TV, it was this comic who taught me about Stan Lee.

[be-baw]

Hmm....I doubt anyone would take what you say seriously. Hatred will kill ya, if you you let it. No go find a another parade to rain on...

[MarchonDC09122009]

+101

[MarchonDC09122009]

Eyes, yet blind...
See for yourself -

https://www.cbr.com/awkward-batman-robin-moments/

https://slate.com/culture/2016/04/the-history-of-the-gay-subtext-of-batman-and-robin.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/holy-homophobia-batman-a-queer-reading-of-the-dark-knight

[ConservaTexan]

I don’t care about libs enough to hate them, but I also don’t make excuses for them. Feel free to yourself, if you choose.