R.I.P. Stan Lee. The Marvel Comics onetime editor-in-chief and later publisher has died in Los Angeles at the age of 95.
At this stage it is unknown what the cause of death was. Stan was taken to Cedar’s Sinai Medical Center on Monday morning and was pronounced death after arrival.
Stanley Lieber was born December 28, 1922. During his early days at Marvel Stan created or co-created characters like Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men and Daredevil. He was also co-writer of the early Iron Man and Ant-Man comic books.
Stan started in the business in 1939 and drove the expansion of Marvel from a small independent publisher to the billion dollar corporation it is today. Disney paid $4 billion for the company in 2009.
Lee married his wife Joan in 1947. She died in 2017 at age 95.
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