Sadly, Stan Lee, the architect of my childhood imagination with characters like Spiderman and the Fantastic Four, has passed away. Here is a nice piece in the NY Times from today….. Here’s a brief bio from Wiki today….
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic-book writer, editor, and publisher. He was editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, and later its publisher and chairman, leading its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
In collaboration with several artists—particularly Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko—he co-created fictional characters including Spider-Man, the Hulk, Doctor Strange, the Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Black Panther, the X-Men, and—with co-writer Larry Lieber—the characters Ant-Man, Iron Man, and Thor. In doing so, he pioneered a more complex approach to writing superheroes in the 1960s, and in the 1970s challenged the standards of the Comics Code Authority, indirectly leading to it updating its policies.
Following his retirement from Marvel, he remained a public figurehead for the company, and frequently made cameo appearances in Marvel Cinematic Universe films. Meanwhile, he continued independent creative ventures into his 90s.
Here’s all his cameo appearances in the Marvel films as someone other than himself, ala Hitchcock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aXfFjvUgzM
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