Good Night STAN LEE

I just found out that Marvel Comics founder Stan lee has passed away.

Real quick for those that may not know....If you enjoyed Marvel Movies like Avengers and Spider Man homing coming? Stan Lee was the creator along with Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko (who also passed away earlier this year.)

Back in the 60's Marvel was a relatively small publishing company that became huge with the publication of The Fantastic Four, followed by The Hulk, The X-men and Spider Man.

By the time I started reading comics in the 1970's Marvel was a multi-million dollar company.

By the 2000's...Marvel had not only conquered publishing, but the company had produced great Saturday Morning Cartoons, iconic live action television shows and were about to conquer the film industry.

As I think about Stan Lee's impact....the one word that comes to mind is "POETRY."

There had been scores of super heroes before Stan Lee and scores after and the world of fantasy will somehow go on.

However, Stan Lee brought the art of poetry to comic book writing.

For instance The Silver Surfer is indeed a cool ,alien on a far out space surf board. Stan Lee penned him as "The Sentinal of The Space Ways." He had a way of making the fantastic and amazing relative to 12 year-old kids that wanted comic books to be more than just throw away literature.

He also added poetry and "Shakespeare" (as an adjective) to the "lives" of characters like Spider-man, The Thing and The Hulk.

Mr. Lee also really created the idea of the shared universe of super heroes.

Most importantly Mr. Lee never forgot that people read his books for FUN. So while there was a lot of story telling that made the reader feel like , "Peter Parker goes through the same things I do" he always gave readers great adventure as well.

There's not a day that goes by that Mr. Lee does not inspire me in some creative way.
I have never known a world without Stan Lee...and the world of fantasy will never be the same again.

Good Night and Thanks for The Memories!

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