Lee was raised in a Jewish household, and in a 2002 interview, he stated when asked if he believed in God, 'Well, let me put it this way. Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922, in Manhattan, New York City, in the apartment of his Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents, Celia ( née Solomon) and Jack Lieber, at the corner of West 98th Street and West End Avenue. He received the NEA's National Medal of Arts in 2008.

Lee 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. He continued independent creative ventures into his 90s until his death in 2018. In the 1980s he pursued the development of Marvel properties in other media, with mixed results.įollowing his retirement from Marvel in the 1990s, Lee remained a public figurehead for the company, and frequently made cameo appearances in films and television shows based on Marvel characters, on which he received an executive producer credit. These and other characters' introductions in the 1960s pioneered a more naturalistic approach in superhero comics, and in the 1970s Lee challenged the restrictions of the Comics Code Authority, indirectly leading to changes in its policies. In collaboration with others at Marvel-particularly co-writers/artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko-he co-created characters including superheroes Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch, and Black Widow. He was the primary creative leader for two decades, leading its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics and film industries.

He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Publications which would later become Marvel Comics. Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber / ˈ l iː b ər/ December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer.

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