OT: RIP Stan Lee

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Creative genius has passed away at 95 - RIP

Marvel Comics Co-Creator Stan Lee Dead at 95

 

[nynasty]

No more cameos.


Shitty news.

 

[esls79]

His NHL Guardians project was just years ahead of its time.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

Posted yesterday for Veterans Day:

 

[mattola]

Stan Lee... Wow... He defined so much of my childhood with everything he was involved with, created and influenced. Thank you for everything. RIP

Excelsior! .

 

[Darkstone42]

:'(

But can't deny his life was both long and full and well lived, and that's worth a celebration.

 

[puckhead]

95. hell of a run.
hell of a legacy.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

He was married for 70+ years, that is unbelievable.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Hey @Nasty_Magician lol

 

[Comeds]

All my life I was entertained by Stan Lee's creations or things he had a hand in creating. From old Spider-Man and Fantastic Four cartoons when I was a kid to the live action Incredible Hulk and Spider-Man tv shows of the late 70s and early 80s. For a time as a young teen I read comics and they were almost always Marvel comics. And now with the modern movies, TV shows, and video games I am still entertained. Thanks Stan, RIP.

 

[Jared]

He wrote this in 1968. He was a creative genius and by all accounts a pretty good human being. RIP Stan...

“Let’s lay it right on the line. Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today. But, unlike a team of costumed super-villains, they can’t be halted with a punch in the snoot, or a zap from a ray gun. The only way to destroy them is to expose them — to reveal them for the insidious evils they really are. The bigot is an unreasoning hater — one who hates blindly, fanatically, indiscriminately. If his hang-up is black men, he hates ALL black men. If a redhead once offended him, he hates ALL redheads. If some foreigner beat him to a job, he’s down on ALL foreigners. He hates people he’s never seen — people he’s never known — with equal intensity — with equal venom.

“Now, we’re not trying to say it’s unreasonable for one human being to bug another. But, although anyone has the right to dislike another individual, it’s totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race — to despise an entire nation — to vilify an entire religion. Sooner or later, we must learn to judge each other on our own merits. Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance. For then, and only then, will we be truly worthy of the concept that man was created in the image of God ― a God who calls us ALL ― His children.

“Pax et Justitia, Stan.”

 

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My wife was listening to an interview on CBC with the wife of Todd McFarlane (of Spawn fame) and she regaled a story of Todd meeting Stan at a comic book convention long before Todd became famous (i.e. just starting out in the business). I guess Todd went up to meet Stan and simply asked him, "Do you have a few minutes to talk to me?" Stan invited him to take a seat and before you know it, the discussion had gone on for over 7 hours.

Edit: Posted on the CBC site if interested

How Stan Lee changed Spawn creator Todd McFarlane's life when he was 16 | CBC Radio

 

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“There’s something, if you think about it, that is wonderful about somebody caring about you — as I care about them — whom you’ve never met, who may live in another part of the world, but they care and you have something in common and occasionally you contact each other,” Lee said. “This business of fans I think is terrific, and I love ’em all.”