Profile of Stan Lee: Marvel Man
Spider-Man, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Four and X-Men have proved global box office gold, and, with his quirky penchant for making fleeting cameos in the live action features, ensured Lee’s iconic status in pop culture
Factfile
Name: Stan Lee
Age95
Appearance: dark glasses, moustachioed and always smiling
Newsworthiness: the face of comic book superheroes died last week
For decades, Stan Lee was the face of an industry. An industry that today is worth billions of dollars, with major Hollywood studios battling it out to capture global audiences by pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into their blockbuster superhero franchises, superheroes who largely came from the imagination of Stan ...
