Stan Lee, a writer and editor often credited with helping American comics grow up by redefining the notion of a superhero, including the self-doubting Spider-Man, the bickering Fantastic Four, the swaggering Iron Man and the raging Incredible Hulk, died Nov. 12 at a hospital in Los Angeles. Tragedy struck Lee last year when he lost Joan, his wife of 69 years, who died at the age of 95. The creative dynamo who revolutionized the comics by introducing human frailties in superheroes such as Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four and The Incredible Hulk, was declared dead Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Kirk Schenck, an attorney for Lee’s daughter, J.C. Lee. "And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. One of the Four, the Thing, looked like a monster and often acted like one, and he hated the powers that made him look that way.
Marvel Comics editor and comic book writer Stan Lee dies at the age of 95.