Stan Lee
American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer (1922-2018) · United States · Writers · Died at 95
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Something wrong?He co-created Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, and a dozen other characters that rewired what superheroes could be - then spent half a century turning those creations into the biggest film franchise on earth, racking up more box-office than any actor alive through cameos in his own universe.
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, To me, the human aspect of superheroes has always been, perhaps, the most important part.
Most writers - and I think it’s an unfortunate thing - they try to write something that they think a certain audience might enjoy.
We tried to make our characters as human and empathetic as possible.
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About this person
Stanley Lieber started at Timely Comics as a young writer and climbed through a family business that would become Marvel. In the 1960s, working with Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor, the X-Men, Black Panther, and more - characters written with neuroses, rent problems, and recognizable inner lives, a break from the square-jawed norm. A decade later he took on the Comics Code Authority's censorship rules and helped crack them open. The 1980s saw him push Marvel into film and TV with uneven results; the 1990s brought retirement, though he stayed on as the company's public face and secured executive producer credits that made him, through cameos, the highest-grossing actor in film history. He kept creating independent projects until his death at 95 in 2018, by which point the characters he'd co-plotted decades earlier had become the center of global pop culture.
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