Stanley Martin Lieber “Stan The Man Lee”
December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018
was an American comic-book writer, editor, and publisher. He was editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics With artist Jack Kirby, Lee launched the superhero team the Fantastic Four in 1961, and was soon responsible for creating popular characters like Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk and Thor. Lee later worked in a number of comic-related business and multimedia ventures.
After working for Marvel in an official capacity for nearly 60 years, Lee began to pursue other projects, and in 1999 he formed Stan Lee Media, an Internet entertainment company built around his creations. Eventually his role at Marvel became that of chairman emeritus. Lee’s new firm did well with its first project, an animated online series called 7th Portal, which featured aliens who enter Earth through a “7th portal”—the Internet.
Film adaptations based on the series that Lee cocreated were highly successful. X-Men (2000) and Spider-Man (2002) launched blockbuster franchises that earned billions of dollars in box-office revenue worldwide. Other Lee creations to receive the Hollywood treatment were Daredevil (2003), Hulk (2003), and Iron Man (2008). Lee was often featured in cameo roles in those films, a tradition that continued after Disney purchased Marvel in 2009. A flood of Marvel films followed the purchase, including those based on Lee-Kirby creations such as Thor (2011), the Avengers (2012), and Ant-Man (2015) for over 10 years of Cameos his last which may have been in Sony/Marvel Venom and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) and just filmed for Avengers 4 (2019)
The County of Los Angeles and the City of Long Beach declared October 2, 2009 STAN LEE DAY
And The Los Angeles City Council officially dedicated October 28th 2016 Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo the event was renamed “Stan Lee’s Los Angeles Comic Con.”
Mr Lee was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995. He received a National Medal of Arts in 2008.
In 2017, Lee was honoured as a Disney Legend for his career in film and publishing.
I had the chance to meet Stan The Man Lee in Sydney at Supanova Comic Con & Gaming it was such an honour to meet him he was cheerful and I had a brief chat with him he will be sadly missed but his Legacy will live on
#RIPStanLee
