The torch-bearing writer, editor, and longtime Marvel Comics head honcho has died, his representatives confirmed Monday.
Not to have diversity of different races and nationalities is ridiculous, Lee told EW in June 2015.
Because the world is diverse.
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The more we can include everybody, the better it is.
By the late 60s, Marvel was selling 50 million comic books a year.
In 1972, Lee became the companys president and publisher.
Comic book artist Gil Kane noted that Lee wrote one book a night for 10 years.
Not only was it easy for him, but it was the best thing that happened to comics.
Although the Marvel Method evolved into the industry standard, it resulted in no small amount of bitterness.
I came up with the Fantastic Four.
I came up with Thor, Kirby said in a 1991 interview withThe Comics Journal.
Whatever it took to sell a [comic] book, I came up with.
Stan Lee has never been editorial-minded.
It wasnt possible for a man like Stan Lee to come up with new things.
In his later career, Lee became known for his P.T.
He even launched a signature cologne in 2013.
Marvel always owned the rights to these characters.
If I owned them, I probably wouldnt be talking to you right now.
In recent years, Lee maintained his cultural presence operating Pow!
(Lee sold Pow to Hong Kong-based Camsing International in 2017 and ended his relationship with L.A.
Comic Con in 2018.)
He also maderegular cameo appearancesin Marvel-produced films.
For seven decades, Lee was married to Joan Boocock Lee, an English native and onetime hat model.
She was the girl I had been drawing all my life, Leewould say of his wife.
Joan Boocock Leepreceded her husband in deathin 2017.
Stan Lee was not untouched by turmoil or controversy in later life.
In January, he wasreportedly accused of sexual harassmentby employees of a nursing company.
A lawyer representing Lee categorically denied the allegations, calling them false and despicable.
In March,TMZreported that Leecontacted policeafter he noticed $1.4 million missing from his bank account.
Lee alsosued his former managerfor allegedly duping him out of millions of dollars.
In a video to fans in March, Lee appeared sanguine.
I want you all to know Im thinking of you, he said.
I want you to know that I still love you all.
