Stan Lee - Excelsior

Stan Lee, who was chief writer and editor of Marvel Comics helped create some of the most enduring superheroes of the 20th century and was a major force behind the breakout successes of the comic-book industry in the 1960s and early ’70s, died on Monday, the 12th November 2018 in Los Angeles. He was 95.

Lee was a crucial figure in the rise of Marvel Comics in the 1960s, when his partnership with equally legendary artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, created many of the beloved characters who now topline films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Although his creative influence over the comics company waned throughout the '70s, he remained as its symbolic chairman and as its public face until his death. Marvel also famously inserted Lee into cameos in almost all of its live-action feature films.

Stan Lee's creative and artistic contribution to the Marvel Universe brought an unshakable humanismus, a faith in our human capacity for altruism and self sacrifice into the once dark nihilism of the comic world.

Rest in Peace, Stan! EXCELSIOR!