Stan Lee dead at 95

[GrinningYMIR]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stan-lee-marvel-comics-legend-721450

[Unbeliever]

Don't tell Sheldon and Leonard, they'll be all torn up over it.

Stan had a good long run, and he's been a big influence on the American "culture."

[Munch]

so sad :(

he was my hero growing up. Me and my childhood friend use to talk about how awesome it be to meet him one day, he inspired me to write stories and make up fictional characters of my own.

he was a legend, I knew he didn't have much longer, but was glad he got to at least get back together with his daughter, after the mess his carer put him though.


Thank you stan :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a2SZxUK2OA

[drunkenshoe]

:(

He did have a good long run. RIP.

[Draconic Aiur]

What were his positives?

[Baruch]

What were his positives?

"he co-created fictional characters including Spider-Man, the Hulk, Doctor Strange, the Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Black Panther, the X-Men, and ... the characters Ant-Man, Iron Man, and Thor." ... from Wikipedia

[Unbeliever]

Stan Lee had a really marvelous imagination! ;-)

[SoldierofFortune]

Wish i could see the age he died if i care of me...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

What were his positives?

He said Tony Stank. That alone is good enough for me.

[GSOgymrat]

"Hey True Believers!"

Stan Lee helped create a universe of interesting characters and stories that have kept me entertained most of my life. He always struck me as an original geek who had boundless enthusiasm for comics and sincerely loved his fans.

[Munch]

"Hey True Believers!"

Stan Lee helped create a universe of interesting characters and stories that have kept me entertained most of my life. He always struck me as an original geek who had boundless enthusiasm for comics and sincerely loved his fans.

I grew up on his work and the world he created. I tried my hand at drawing from a book he published on drawing. But it was more then that, I escaped into marvel comics, at times when it was to hard to deal with the pressures of life when younger, my drunk father, bully older brother, and being bullied in school, for me escape was both in games, and comics, marvel comics especially.
I loved stan the man so much I wanted to meet him one day, I even think I wrote him a letter when I was 12, mailing it to the uk branch of marvel comics, not knowing if it would ever reach him.

Its just so sad that someone like him, having to deal with so much crap at the end, given what he gave for the world.

[Hydra009]

He had a rare mix of gifts - great imagination, enthusiasm for the art of storytelling, and love for fans.  He didn't just try to sell a story - he tried to build a community and he was wildly successful at that.

Also, Stan Lee and other Marvel writers revolutionized the superhero genre, creating complex characters with human strengths and flaws and lives outside of the latest crisis.  And many of these stories tackled important social issues, especially racial prejudice.

My favorite marvel character was a guy Stan Lee dreamed up as a challenge to himself - to take the sort of character no one would like and make him likable.  That character was Tony Stark.

Cheers to a legend.  Excelsior!

[Unbeliever]

Stan really liked alliteration in the names of his characters.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/profile/zapa/lists/raj-koothrappalis-list-about-stan-lees-characters-/33219/

[Munch]

You know, it makes me wonder if because of these elements stan lee, steve ditko and jack kirby created, if that isn't why the marvel comic movies are doing so well, and where dc cinematic universe just isn't.
Theres always been this sum up of the differences between marvel and dc, with dc heroes, they are like gods among men, where as the marvel heroes are grounded people with flaws.

I really do believe this is whats made the marvel movies so successful, because the characters are more grounded, they have flaws. iron man was in the comics once an alcoholic, but in recent times he's developed a hubris and arrogance he overcomes. Hulk all about his split personality and dealing with that loss of control. Spidermans about trying to live a normal life and the weight of that coupled with his responsibility to those he loves.
Stuff like that is more relatable then 'I got hit by lighting now I'm super fast!' or 'my dad made me a cyborg, now i'm awesome' or 'my parents died when I was young, but I'm super rich and fight crime and have a butler who raised me'. Dc isn't as grounded as marvel.

And you can see that in the movies, even with characters like tony stark whos as rich as batman, he is deeply flawed and even with his charisma, his attitude conflicts with other characters like Steve rogers, who himself is out of time with how things are today. Conflicts like that give characters layers that just isn't there in some dc charterers.

And thats what stan, jack and steve did with these characters when making them, which is still important today.

[Munch]

Stan really liked alliteration in the names of his characters.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/profile/zapa/lists/raj-koothrappalis-list-about-stan-lees-characters-/33219/

we get it, the only thing you can relate to stan lee is that one big bang episode.