Stan Lee, center left, blows out the candles on a Marvel Comics birthday cake in 1975, at the first Mighty Marvel Comic Book Convention in New York. (AP)I WASN’T even fully seated before Stan Lee brought up his beloved Joanie, his wife of seven decades. And you want to quit anyway.’”With those words, Lee says, Joan changed their lives — and the future of Marvel Comics. In Lee’s mind, we would have no multibillion-dollar Marvel superhero industry today were it not for Joanie. Joan Lee died Thursday in Los Angeles, after being hospitalized for a stroke this week, her family said in a statement.

Source: Washington Post July 07, 2017 15:25 UTC