Stan Lee, Force Behind Marvel Stable of Superheroes, Dies at 95
- His characters with troubled lives redefined the genre
- Walt Disney Co. acquired Lee’s Marvel comics for $4 billion
Stan Lee in 2008.
Photographer: Jonathan Alcorn/Bloomberg
Stan Lee, who brought a modern sensibility to comic books and provided lucrative fodder for Hollywood as co-creator of such sympathetically imperfect superheroes as Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, X-Men and Iron Man, has died. He was 95.
Lee died on Monday in Los Angeles, according to the Associated Press.