Stan Lee Dead at 95

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: TMZ

Stan Lee, the man who co-created Marvel Comics, has died ... TMZ has learned.

We're told an ambulance rushed to Lee's Hollywood Hills home early Monday morning and he was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. We're told that's where he died.

Lee had suffered several illnesses over the last year or so -- he had a bout of pneumonia and vision issues.

Stan started Marvel with Jack Kirby in 1961 with The Fantastic Four. He went on to create Spider-Man, Black Panther, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, Iron Man and The Avengers.

Stan made cameo appearances in all of the Marvel movies.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2018/11/12/stan-lee-dead-dies-marvel-comics/

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Saw a post on GD about this and went searching.

Hollywood Reporter has it as well - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stan-lee-marvel-comics-legend-721450

[area51]

1. RIP

[exboyfil]

2. That sucks

I have always been a Kirby fan, but with the MCU I came to love and appreciate what he did for comics before I became a serious reader. Most of the great Lee runs were over by then, and a pre-teen and teenager really didn't care who the editor was.

Thank you Stan for all the memories, for helping to create some great lasting characters, and for being a great ambassador for comics.

The geeks have taken over Hollywood, and you are big reason for it.

[sarge43]

3. Peace passage, Story Teller.

You gave us treasure.

[StarryNite]

4. R.I.P. Stan Lee

Stan Lee entertained so many people of all ages over the years. My 2 year old grandson loves Spider-Man. He even dressed up as him for Halloween.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. RIP Stan

He was a clever and funny guy!

[Initech]

6. Excelsior!!

RIP!

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Black Panther cameo

[Initech]

19. I think my favorite Stan Lee cameo was Avengers: Age Of Ultron

[BumRushDaShow]

24. He was a piece of work.

[berni_mccoy]

14. My thoughts exactly. He is a legend.

[sakabatou]

8. Rest in peace, true believer

[cannabis_flower]

9. RIP Stan Lee

Stan Lee on The Big Bang Theory:

[Maeve]

10. I'll miss looking for him in the movies

Not that he was hard to miss, most times...

I grew up reading Marvel comics so his is one of the first names I learned in that world

[NewJeffCT]

11. what a long and magical life

inventor of so many superheroes and to help elevate them from fringe entertainment to the leaders of mainstream movies.

Rest In Peace

Excelsior

[Gothmog]

12. From my twitter feed

Link to tweet

[IrishEyes]

13. I got the chance to give him a high five once.

I was standing line at comic con and he walked by. He was smiling, waving and giving high fives to people. He seems like he was a nice man. It is sad to see him go.

[exboyfil]

16. We was a great ambassador for comics

I never was at a comic convention with him.

I did meet Jack Kirby in the mid-1970s when I was all total fan boy for him. It might have been the day (which was towards the end), but he didn't seem to be having a good time signing comics. I have collected very few celebrity signatures, and I wonder if seeing Kirby like that was the reason.

[TlalocW]

34. I paid a ridiculous amount of money to get a picture with him at my local comiccon

There were four photo-ops with him spread out over 2 days. Each one had 4 lines of at least 200 people each. I made sure I was last (you'll see why). They herded us in like cattle, Stan was seated, he'd quickly greet you, photo taker would yell, "Smile," then herd you out. Took 5 to 8 seconds. Stan was as happy in the last photo as he was the first because 1) he loved the fans and 2) because I'm sure after each photo he was thinking, "That's another $XXX! Ka-ching!"

Totally worth it though.

https://www.facebook.com/amazingballloonskc/photos/a.1032310786851826/1032310883518483/?type=3&theater

TlalocW

[BumRushDaShow]

37. I know I paid ridiculous amounts to get autographs from Shatner and Nimoy 15 years ago

at Creation Con and stood in huge lines for them... but you sortof go there knowing that's the way it is and it's often a once-in-a-lifetime for the more than casual but less than obsessive fan.

[sarge43]

15. A lot of cameos

[Brother Buzz]

31. His favorite cameo was in Amazing Spider-Man as a librarian.

Stan Lee was a huge friend of the library

1."When I was a kid, I couldn't afford to buy the books I wanted, but three blocks away there was a public library and man, to me it was a magic place."
2. "There was the book. I walk in, I give them the card, they stamp the card, I take the book home, it's mine for a few days and I can read it."
3. "When you have a library card, it's like having a key to all the information in the world."
4. "When you have a library card, you can read anything about anything, and I found whatever you read it doesn't matter--it increases your fund of knowledge."
5. "So a library card is an 'open sesame' to all the knowledge in the world."

[FailureToCommunicate]

36. Wonderful ambassador!

[Eliot Rosewater]

17. Giant in his world, King really....RIP

[icymist]

18. Aww Man!

[turbinetree]

20. Silver Surfer......................My Favorite................

Stan Lee - The Silver Surfer: my philosophical outlet (19/42)

[displacedtexan]

21. He had a nice cameo on Eureka.

He played one of many scientists hoping to be chosen for a trip to Titan. He said, "Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

[Javaman]

22. Awww Jeez. Thank you Stan!

He lived a very long and happy and very influential life.

He has certainly changed mine for the better.

My you rest in peace.

[ismnotwasm]

23. Damn.

[catbyte]

25. This was the moment I realized that Grumpy Cat was "a thing"

[IMG][/IMG]

RIP, sir.

[BumRushDaShow]

26. Wait... LOL!

[mac56]

27. Sad day.

I didn't tumble onto Marvel comics until my college days. The glory days of Marvel had just begun to wane. Stan's legend and legacy have been debated pro and cons for decades. But no matter what, he brought the mythology of super heroes to a peak that others are now just catching up with.

Safe travels, sir.

[Fatemah2774]

28. I will miss him...

And cry as he joins the Pantheon of Heroes.

Thank you for bringing Tchalla, Peter Parker, Ben Grimm, Sue and Johnny Storm, Reed Richards, Bruce Banner, Tony Stark and all of the other great characters to life.

[rsdsharp]

29. I was more a DC guy as a kid,

but I did pick up an occasional Fantastic Four or Avengers.

I don't read comics anymore, but he was a legend. RIP.

[Miles Archer]

30. Every Tuesday at my hometown newsstand, every new Marvel Comic at 12 cents a pop

I bought every single title, every week. I was never much of a DC fan at all, except for the occasional book.

Those were the days of 3 network channels on TV, no "cable," no Internet. It was comic books and the very occasional trip to a "record store," about a 45 minute drive from where I lived, unless I went to Zayre, which was closer.

I know that in modern times, Stan's name is plastered across every new "Marvel Universe" movie. When I was a kid, Iron Man wasn't Robert Downey Jr. He was about three years old when I was up to my eyeballs in Marvel Comics.

In short, Stan Lee made being a kid feel like being a kid. He was the source of fun, he was the magician who kept pulling one inconceivable rabbit after another out of his hat.

R.I.P., "Smilin' Stan."

[BumRushDaShow]

35. I remember the 25 cents comics

but I was buying Ritchie Rich and Archies. Then we would sell/trade them at school for like 10 cents each.

[dameatball]

40. Same here on the 3 channels. We got NBC and CBS....had to go outside and turn the antenna for ABC.

We also got PBS somehow or another.

[Iggo]

32. Excelsior!!!

[DinahMoeHum]

38. Flame On!

. . .and say hello to Jack Kirby for us.

[dameatball]

39. Oddly, I am not a big fan of the superhero movies. But Marvel comics and Mad magazine were a huge

part of my childhood and teen years. RIP Stan.

[Auggie]

41. Awesome creative mind and amazing storyteller

And I think a super human and all around nice guy.

[Solly Mack]

42. :(

[BeyondGeography]

43. A very good-hearted man

in addition to all his talent.

RIP

[Demonaut]

44. R.I.P Stan

[Lokilooney]

45. Whats depressing is what came to be toward the end

https://deadline.com/2018/07/judge-dismisses-restraining-order-protecting-stan-lee-1202422494/