Stan Lee, the legendary writer and publisher of Marvel Comics has died. He was 95.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, he died early Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
An attorney for Lee’s daughter, J.C. Lee, confirmed.
“We at Stan Lee’s Lee POW! Entertainment are saddened by the loss of our friend and mentor Stan Lee, the father of pop culture. His passing today marks a devastating and painful moment in time, but the legacy of Stan Lee, through his creative genius and his universes of characters, will continue to reach the world of true believers for generations to come,” Shane Duffy, CEO of Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment, said in a statement.
Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922, born to Jewish-Romanian parents in New York. He started in the book business in 1939 working on small pulp-fiction magazines. By the 1950s, he started co-creating many “flawed-humanity” iconic superheroes including Black Panther, Spider-Man, The Mighty Thor, Iron Man, X-Men, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Daredevil and Ant-Man.
Since the merger with Disney, Lee’s made 56 cameos in the Marvel Universe dating back to the live-action TV movie, “The Trial of the Incredible Hulk” in 1989 and “X-Men” in 2000.
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