Stan Lee
Stan Lee was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business to become Marvel Comics’ primary creative leader for two decades. He co-created numerous popular fictional characters, including Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man and the Wasp. 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. Lee continued independent creative ventures into his 90s, until his death in 2018.
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Stan Lee was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business to become Marvel Comics’ primary creative leader for two decades. In collaboration with others at Marvel, he co-created numerous popular fictional characters, including Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man and the Wasp. 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 received the NEA’s National Medal of Arts in 2008. Lee continued independent creative ventures into his 90s, until his death in 2018. The Stan Lee Foundation was founded in 2010 to focus on literacy, education, and the arts, as well as supporting ideas that improve access to the arts and sciences. Lee died in a hotel room in San Francisco, California, where he was staying with his wife and two children. He is survived by his wife, Joan Clayton Boocock, and two daughters, Joan Celia C. Lee and Joan C. Lees, who were born in 1950 and 1952, respectively. Lee also had a son, Larry Lieber, who was born in 1953, and a daughter, Jocelyne C. Lieber-Lee, who died in 2012, at the age of 89. Lee is buried at Mount Sinai Cemetery in New York City, next to his son Larry. He was married to his wife Joan for more than 50 years.
He also had three children, two of whom died in childhood; the other two died in adulthood. Lee had a brother, Larry Lee, who also worked in the film industry; and a son-in-law, David Lee, whom he married in 1998. Lee’s daughter Joan Celie C. was born on December 28, 1922, in Manhattan, New York, and died on January 25, 2002. Lee lived in a brownstone in the East 90s in Manhattan; he also owned a condominium on East 63rd Street in Manhattan from 1975 to 1980, and during the 1970s owned a vacation home in Remsenburg, New Jersey. He lived in Woodmere, Long Island, from 1950 to 1950, and in 1981, he bought a home in West Hollywood, California. He died on December 25, 2018, in a New York hotel room; he was buried in Mount Sinai, California; he had lived in the West Coast town of West Hollywood since 1981. He had been married to Joan for over 40 years; they had two children, one of whom was a daughter named Joan Celian C. “J.C.” Lee, born in 1941, and he was married in 1952. Lee worked as an office boy for a trouser manufacturer; ushering at the Rivoli Theater on Broadway; and selling subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune newspaper. He graduated from high school early, aged 16 and a half, in 1939 and joined the WPA Federal Theatre Project.
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