By Aditi Agrawal
Stan Lee, the creator of Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Iron Man, the X-Men, and one of the best known writers of the Silver Age of Comic Books, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 95.
His death, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, was confirmed to the New York Times by Kirk Schenck, a lawyer for Mr. Lees daughter, J. C. Lee.
Credited with infusing superheroes with humane characteristics and complexities, Lee created the characters that have now spawned the most profitable movie franchise in history, and dot virtually every sphere of public imagination.
Born as Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1922 in Manhattan to Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents, Celia and Jack Lieber, Lee was the older of two brothers.
Although Lee aspired to become a serious writer after graduating from high school, he was eventually hired at Timely Publications, founded and owned by a relative Martin Goodman, which would ultimately become Marvel Comics in 1961.
In the late 1990s, Lee would go on to become the chairman emeritus at Marvel.
Marvel, Disney (the parent company of Disney), rival DC, and celebrities paid tributes to Stan Lee.
Aditi Agrawal is the senior sub editor at Qrius