Who was Stan Lee and why he was famous ?

Lee's wife, Joanie, died from a stroke in July of 2017.

In 2018, Lee was granted a temporary restraining order against a memorabilia collector, who claimed to be his caregiver.

As he got older, Lee's eyesight deteriorated to the point where he had difficulty reading comic books, something that he greatly missed doing, he told RadioTimes in 2016.

Stan Lee died Nov. 12, 2018 at the age of 95.

He became an editor at Timely Comics in 1941. Timely Comics would eventually be renamed “Atlas Comics” in the 1950s and was re-branded again as “Marvel Comics” in 1961. The same Marvel we all know and love today.

In collaboration with several artists, including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he created Spider-Man, the Hulk, Doctor Strange, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Daredevil, Thor, the X-Men, and many other well known fictional characters.

He was inducted into the comic book industry’s Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995. Lee received a National Medal of Arts in 2008. Sometimes it takes a long time to get recognized for your hard work.

Lee was raised in a Jewish family. In a 2002 survey of whether he believes in God, he stated, “Well, let me put it this way… [Pauses.] No, I’m not going to try to be clever. I really don’t know. I just don’t know.” None of us do, Stan.

Lee’s favorite authors include Stephen King, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Harlan Ellison.

When Spider-man married Mary Jane in 1987, Marvel held a publicity event at Shea Stadium in New York, featuring actors dressed like Spider-Man and Mary Jane. Stan officiated the wedding ceremony. Sadly, Stan’s not available for weddings.

In 1998, Stan signed a lifetime deal with Marvel Enterprises, Inc. The contract only requires that he spend 10 percent of his time with the company. In a 2012 Reddit Q&A thread, he told a fan, “I don’t have any spare time.” We can tell, Stan.

It is no secret that Stan has cameo roles in many Marvel movies, but did you know that it is actually part of his contract? A special clause in the agreement specifies that Stan must appear in any film based on one of his characters. He is of course, paid for his time, so it’s not terrible.

In 2012, Stan co-wrote a New York Times bestselling graphic novel for 1821 Comics called Romeo and Juliet: The War. The graphic novel is a retelling of the classic tale, but both families are super human soldiers who, after having crushed all their mutual enemies, turn on each other.

When asked which Marvel super villain he would want to become, Stan said he would want to be Dr. Doom. He thinks that Dr. Doom is misunderstood and that just because he wants to rule the world doesn’t mean that he is 100% a villain. Perhaps he would do a better job than we are currently.

Stan’s trademark catchphrase, “Excelsior!” means “Ever upward.” It is also the New York state motto. It is also Al Gore’s motto in South Park’s ManBearPig episode.

Stan is the recipient of the 2,428th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is located at 7072 Hollywood Blvd, in front of the Live Nation Building.

Stan Lee reveals the secret of his slicked back mane on the second page of his memoir. “My whole adult life, I’ve never been to a barber,” he writes. “Joanie always cuts my hair.” Sadly, Joan passed away earlier this year. Our condolences to Stan and his family.

Before writing about the fantastic lives of fictional characters, Stan Lee wrote antemortem obituaries for celebrities at an undisclosed news office in New York. He says that he eventually quit that job because it was too “depressing.”

A week into his job at Timely Comics, Lee got the opportunity to write a two-page Captain America comic. He wrote it under the pen name Stan Lee (now his legal name) and titled it Captain America Foils the Traitor’s Revenge. His first full comic script would come in Captain America Issue 5, published August 1, 1941.

After being transferred from the army’s Signal Corps in New Jersey, Lee worked as a playwright in the Training Film Division in Queens with eight other men, including a few who went on to be very famous: Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan, cartoonist Charles Addams (creator of The Addams Family), director Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It’s a Wonderful Life) and Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. What a team that must have been!

In 1971, Lee received a letter from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare asking him to put an anti-drug message in one of his books. He came up with a Spider-Man story that involved Spidey’s best friend Harry abusing pills after a bad break-up. The CCA would not approve the story because of the mention of drug abuse, but Lee convinced his publisher, Martin Goodman, to run the comic anyway. Just like his heroes, Stan does what needs to be done.

The Hulk was supposed to be gray, but Lee writes that the printer had a hard time keeping the color consistent. “So as of issue #2,” Lee writes, “with no explanation, he turned green.”

According to Lee, during an argument, Joanie destroyed the typewriter he used to write the first issues for iconic characters including Spider-Man and The Fantastic Four. “This happened before eBay,” he writes. “Too bad. I could’ve auctioned the parts and made a mint.”

When Lee moved his family to Los Angeles, he set up a studio in Van Nuys where he stored videotapes of his interviews, along with a bust of his wife that he commissioned. The building was lost to a blaze that the fire department believed was arson, but no one was ever charged with the crime.

Beginning with the first Spider-Man film in 2002, Stan Lee has made cameos in Marvel films as a service to the fans. He says that his appearance in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer was inspired by the story of Reed and Sue Richards’ wedding in Fantastic Four, in which he and artist/writer Jack Kirby attempt to crash the ceremony but are thwarted.