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 Stan Lee Biography

 American creator, director, publisher, and maker of comic books, Stan Lee. During their 20 years as its primary creative director, he supervised the company's transition from a small printing business section to a multi-media behemoth that controlled the comics and cinema industries. He co-created several well-known Marvel characters, such as the Hulk, Daredevil, Scarlet Witch, Thor, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Black Panther,  the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Wasp, Ant-Man,  and Black Widow.

A more grounded approach to superhero books was developed as a result of the appearance of these and other superheroes in the 1960s. He made various attempts, with varying degrees of success, to incorporate Marvel characters into other media during the 1980s He frequently appeared in Marvel-themed movies and television shows, earning an executive producer title in the process. This helped him surpass Steve Jobs as the highest-grossing person in cinema history. He continued his independent creative pursuits well into his 90s, dying in 2018

Marriage

In Manhattan's East 90s, Lee rented the top floor of a townhouse and resided there from 1945 to 1947.The couple bought a house in 1949 and lived there until 1952 in the Long Island community of Woodmere, New York.

They also held a house in Remsenburg, New York, in the 1970s, as well as an apartment on East 63rd Street in Manhattan from 1975 to 1980. To relocate to the West Coast, they purchased a house in West Hollywood, California, in 1981 that used to belong to Don Wilson, comedian Jack Benny's radio operator.

Career

In 1939, Stan Lee worked with his uncle Robbie Solomon at a literary magazine and comic book distributor Martin Goodman's new Timely Comics division. Timely had changed into Marvel Comics by the 1960s. Joe Simon, the editor of Timely, officially recruited Lee, whose aunt Jean was Goodman's spouse.

Two issues later, with the supplemental feature "'Headline' Hunter, Foreign Correspondent," penned under the pen name "Reel Nats," Lee made the transition from filler to real comics. His first character, Destroyer, was co-created with him for Mystic Comics In August 1941. Other figures he co-created during the Golden Age of Comic Books include Father Time and Jack Frost, who made their debuts in Captain America Comics and the United States of America Comics in August 1941, respectively.

Early in 1942, Lee enlisted in the US Army and worked in the Signal Corps, taking care of telegraph wires and other communication tools. Later, he was given a job in the Training Film Division, where he produced guides, training videos, catchphrases, and animations. He claimed that only nine people in the United States Army held the position of "playwright" and that this was his military designation. Several well-known or soon-to-be-famous individuals served in Lee's section of the Army, among them three-time Academy Award winner Frank Capra, Charles Addams, an artist for the New Yorker, and Theodor Geisel, better known as "Dr. Seuss" and the author of numerous children's books.

Every week on Friday while he was in the Army, Lee got notes from Timely editors outlining what needed to be written and by when. Lee would sketch stories and deliver them back on Monday. The mailman disregarded Lee's note for a week, telling him there was nothing in his mailbox. The following day, Lee was walking past the locked mailroom when he spotted a letter with the return address of Timely Comics in his mailbox.

Lee asked the officer in command to open the mailroom so that he wouldn't miss the deadline, but the officer declined. Lee then used a tool to pry open the mailbox's hinges and take the assignment packet out. Once the mailroom commander learned what Lee had done, the base captain—who didn't like Lee—turned him in. He might have been punished for meddling by being sent to Leavenworth Prison.

Lee started writing stories in a range of categories in the middle of the 1950s when Atlas Comics had established itself as a ubiquitous brand, including romance, Westerns, humor, science fiction, medieval adventures, horror, and mystery. In the 1950s, Lee and his comic book collaborator Dan DeCarlo worked together to develop the serialized newspaper strip My Friend Irma, which was based on the radio sitcom featuring Marie Wilson. By the decade's close, Lee had grown weary of his work and was considering quitting the field.

Death

In September 2012, Lee had a pacemaker inserted, forcing the postponement of conference performances. By the end of 2017, Lee had officially stopped appearing at events. On July 6, 2017, his 69-year-old spouse Joan Boocock died from symptoms following a stroke. After being taken to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for treatment of an earlier-day medical emergency, Lee passed away there on November 12, 2018, just one month before his 96th birthday. Lee had already endured treatment for pneumonia in February of that year.

His funeral document stated that cardiac arrest was the immediate cause of death. The main reasons were described as congestive heart failure and respiratory failure. In addition, it indicated that he had asthma from aspiration. After being given to him, his daughter got his cremated bones.

Roy Thomas, the new editor-in-chief of Marvel, visited Lee two days before his passing to discuss the forthcoming book The Stan Lee Story. Roy Thomas said: "He was probably ready to go. He nevertheless kept talking about doing more appearances. As long as he enjoyed the energy to do so and was not needed to travel, Stan was always ready to make additional cameo appearances. He loved those more than anything else.”