A Hero among super heroes: American comic legend Stan Lee died

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He was involved in the invention of super heroes like Spiderman, Hulk or Black Panther. Now the world has died well-known comic book author at the age of 95 in Los Angeles, according to US media reports.

He was the father of popular comic characters such as Spiderman, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, The X-Men, Fantastic Four, Black Panther, or Daredevil. The man who built the Comic-book Empire Marvel, and approximately 350 characters he created, has died at the age of 95 in Los Angeles. The U.S. media “TMZ” and “Variety reports,” citing Lee’s daughter and their lawyer.

“Today, we have a true super-heroic lost”, condolences to the Oscar Academy on Twitter. “Stan Lee, thank you for everything.” Lee gave people who felt differently, feeling that they were ROE something Special, the comedian Seth. “You were and will always be a super hero,” wrote the actress Jamie Lee Curtis. And the German Rapper Casper agreed: “You, yourself, were the greatest super hero of them all.”

“One of the most prolific storytellers of the Americas”

In July 2017 Stan Lee was still fit and immortalized in the Hall of Fame, the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood

In November 2008, Lee from the then U.S. President George W. Bush received the National Medal of Arts, the highest arts award by the US government. As “one of the most prolific storytellers of the Americas” was Lee at the time, celebrated in Washington for a Genre, the literature, friends and critics a couple of decades earlier had spurned. It was only in the 1980s and 1990s, the comic changed folders to a kind of hip pop literature. Prior to that, she had been something for a small fan base of Nerds and outsiders – Fantasy for children and young people. Stan Lee didn’t care for it: to invent characters, was difficult for him. Many of them were human, and more approachable than the competition: He sat on the human, natural sides of the supernatural heroes: Daredevil is blind, Hulk has uncontrolled outbursts of anger, and the X-Men characters have weaknesses, physical, mental, or behavioral. In contrast, there is Batman, in real life, the millionaire Bruce Wayne, or Superman that comes as an all-powerful Adonis from the sky flew.

Stan Lee in 2017, with “his” figures of Iron Man and Spiderman

“I tried to write the characters as human beings who have supernatural powers,” said Lee 2013. A super hero with weaknesses is a great example, wrote the magazine “Psychology Today”. Peter Parker, the climb as Spiderman walls of high-rise buildings, is an “average, sloppy Boy,” so it was Stan Lee. Has thought up the iconic blue-and-red spider man at the beginning of the 1960s, along with his colleagues Steve Ditko. The Comic artist also passed away this year – on 29. June, at the age of 90 years.

Lee’s characters knows the whole world

The son of Romanian immigrants, was born in 1922 in New York as Stanley Martin Lieber. He was still a Teenager when he began in 1939 as an assistant at the publishing house Timely Comics, later Marvel should be called. His gap filler-texts in issue 3 of the Captain America Comics in 1941, can be seen as a debut in a career full of “POW!” and “BANG!”. Today, Lee’s reach creations with blockbusters and video games, millions of people worldwide. The end of the Eighties Lee of New York had moved to Los Angeles. At the end of April 2018, the 95 had visited-Year-old there for the Premiere of the Marvel superhero movie “Avengers: Infinity war”.

Stan Lee at the Premiere of “Avengers: Infinity War” at 23. April 2018

Lee’s own weakness is not was, according to him, that he earned with his inventions a lot of money, not even as Marvel’s publisher and editor-in-chief from 1972. “I was very stupid. I should have been greedy,” he said 2017 – to be assets, however, is estimated to be around $ 50 million. The “Hollywood Reporter”, according to Lee’s daughter was with her father, a bitter fight over the future of the assets. In the past year, Lee’s wife Joan had died at the age of 93 years.

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