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Comic book genius Stan Lee, Spider-Man creator, dies at 95
wsbt ^ | November 12, 2018 | Sinclair Broadcast Group

Posted on 11/12/2018 11:20:55 AM PST by Morgana

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comic book genius Stan Lee, the architect of the contemporary comic book, has died. He was 95.

The creative dynamo who revolutionized the comics by introducing human frailties in superheroes such as Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four and The Incredible Hulk, was declared dead Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Kirk Schenck, an attorney for Lee's daughter, J.C. Lee.

As the top writer at Marvel Comics and later as its publisher, he revived the industry in the 1960s by offering the costumes and action craved by younger readers while insisting on sophisticated plots, college-level dialogue, satire, science fiction, even philosophy.

Spider-Man, the Hulk and X-Men were among the Lee creations that went on to become stars of blockbuster films

Stan Lee posted to is Facebook page yesterday for Veteran's Day and thanking military members for their service. The comic book author served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II.

Lee had become ill a few times in the past year, including pneumonia. His wife, Joan, died in 2017.

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To: pcottraux
Guess we won’t be seeing any more cameos. :-(

CGI.

21 posted on 11/12/2018 12:13:37 PM PST by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Morgana

This rot has taken over the country.


22 posted on 11/12/2018 12:17:39 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: LS
Truly great, but it was sad how he minimized Jack (King) Kirby’s role in Marvel’s creation and success. Next perhaps to Frank Frazetta, Kirby the greatest artist in comic history.

They were both geniuses, but it is sad to see someone claim all the credit as Lee often did. Makes him seem small and petty.

23 posted on 11/12/2018 12:26:17 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: pcottraux
Guess we won’t be seeing any more cameos. :-(

I have read on another website someone claiming that they have taped a bunch of generic "appearances" by Stan Lee to be used in future films.

I don't know if this is true, but it sounds plausible.

24 posted on 11/12/2018 12:27:53 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Sans-Culotte

Some artists, such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean I’ll just say to Jack, “Let’s let the next villain be Dr. Doom” ... or I may not even say that. He may tell me. And then he goes home and does it. He’s so good at plots, I’m sure he’s a thousand times better than I. He just makes up the plots for these stories. All I do is a little editing ... I may tell him that he’s gone too far in one direction or another. Of course, occasionally I’ll give him a plot, but we’re practically both the writers on the things.

STAN LEE, Castle of Frankenstein, no. 12, 1968


25 posted on 11/12/2018 12:36:04 PM PST by shineon
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To: LS

I thought of those two gentlemen also,, all 3 are comic legends .. imho


26 posted on 11/12/2018 12:37:58 PM PST by ßuddaßudd ((>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: shineon

27 posted on 11/12/2018 12:38:56 PM PST by shineon
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To: shineon

RIP Mr. Stan “the man” Lee. You corralled for us a remarkable bullpen of talent not to be repeated. And above all, never took yourself too seriously.

Thanks so much for all the fantasy - ethos - pathos - good humor - valor - adventure and plain old good fun.

Many tears and thrills were to follow generation after generation.

Again - a tip of the cap and much ado.


28 posted on 11/12/2018 12:44:05 PM PST by shineon
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To: ifinnegan

Perhaps the last of a vanishing breed.
A Democrat who did not feel the need to tear down the institutions and the fabric of the country.


29 posted on 11/12/2018 12:45:51 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: shineon

He definitely gave some credit to Kirby, but he claimed to have created/invented several characters when they were joint creations. On individual issues, they shared the credit with both their names equal size.


30 posted on 11/12/2018 12:48:03 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Morgana

Just saw his last cameo in venom. Gave me a good chuckle.

Thanks Stan Lee! Always respected your work.


31 posted on 11/12/2018 12:55:22 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Boycott ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“A Democrat who did not feel the need to tear down the institutions and the fabric of the country.”

His creation has done that just fine.


32 posted on 11/12/2018 1:39:39 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan
Marvel comic books have torn down the institutions and the fabric of the country? Seriously?

Dr. Wertham...is that you?

33 posted on 11/12/2018 1:49:05 PM PST by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

My family, there are still plenty of liberal Democrats. These will be our allies against the LEFTEST scum trying to destroy this country.


34 posted on 11/12/2018 3:07:25 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: Simon Green

It didn’t tear down the fabric, but it sure as hell destroyed the movies. Mute the get power. Then CGI bullsh1t for the rest of the 90 mins. Scripts for his movies can be written on an envelope. I will give him credit where credit it due.....he holds the record for living the longest knowing the Clintons, and actually being the first to die a natural death, so it must have been some sort of super power to thwart of Arkanside!


35 posted on 11/12/2018 4:52:42 PM PST by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputee)
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To: chris37
Exclesior!, Stan.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

A no-prize to you for best comment.

A genius has left the Earth.

Sadly, he never got to see a decent Fantastic Four movie made because Marvel sold the rights.

36 posted on 11/12/2018 5:37:33 PM PST by Disestablishmentarian
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To: Morgana

Sure Stan can have cameos in Marvel’s comic movies, just like other actors have had as well. most recently it was Carrie Fisher who appeared after her death in the Star Wars franchise. Stan the Man may he rest in peace and God bless his soul.


37 posted on 11/12/2018 6:11:38 PM PST by zaxtres
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To: pcottraux

Oh, yes. That is why it was a Musical Chairs industry: Most of them worked for any and all of them at one time or another.

Jack Kirby was, I think, somewhat difficult a personality, but he was entirely correct that Stan Lee denied him the full credit he deserved for his enormous creative input. He did not just draw what Lee said; far from it. No Kirby = No Marvel.

Jack Kirby at Marvel: The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk [first 6-issue run], The Invincible Iron Man, Captain America, The Uncanny X-Men, and on and on. Spider-Man (Steve Ditko) and Daredevil (Wally Wood) were exceptions to his prolific output of new titles.

Fed up with Stan Lee, he went to DC, and produced the whole Darkseid cosmology (which was later somewhat purloined, in my opinion, by Marvel as the Thanos cosmology).

I think Curt Swan (Superman) and many others were underappreciated too. And many of them were very leftist, and some of them wanted to unionize (e.g., Neal Adams).

Bob Kane, to his credit, admitted at an awards ceremony, that he short-changed Bill Finger.

And then look at Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster: not credited for Superman until the 1970s. Money aside, creation is creation.


38 posted on 11/12/2018 6:27:42 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Disestablishmentarian

I got a No-Prize in 1968.


39 posted on 11/12/2018 6:29:15 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Simon Green

Now that Marvel is Disney, yes, it is a major arrow in the SJW quiver.

Try telling a child of five that his/her [binary pronouns used emphatically] favorite superhero, who is flagrantly portrayed as a so-called homosexual or so-called trans-gender, is not really a moral hero, and is thus not a good role model.

I was collecting comics before many here were even born, and I know the history of comics far better than most. Wertham was not entirely right, but he was not entirely wrong - and he was ahead of the curve.

Are you also going to mock Joseph McCarthy, like so many supposed conservatives have done, siding with leftists, and doing their work for them? (And then along came the Venona Papers...)

When you combine the power of entertainment propaganda with the power of education [indoctrination] propaganda, it forms a heady brew for young minds.


40 posted on 11/12/2018 6:40:52 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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