{"id":305466,"date":"2018-11-13T04:38:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T04:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305466"},"modified":"2018-11-13T04:38:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T04:38:20","slug":"marvel-comics-legend-stan-lee-dies-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/marvel-comics-legend-stan-lee-dies-at-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Comics legend, Stan Lee dies at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305470 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lee-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Lee-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Lee-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Lee-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Lee-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Lee.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Stan Lee, the colorful Marvel Comics patriarch who gave the world the radioactive Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk, the legend of Thor and the swaggering Iron Man died on Monday at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 95.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lee, born as Stanley Lieber on December 28, 1922, began his career at what was then Timely Comics in 1939. Over the years he was a writer, editor and occasional illustrator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was considered as one of the most legendary names in the history of comic books and the leading creative force behind the rise of Marvel Comics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lee had created hundreds of colorful characters. Those superheroes have been adapted into blockbuster films, most of which were made after Disney acquired Marvel in a 4-billion-dollar deal in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Stan Lee was as extraordinary as the characters he created,&#8221; The Walt Disney Company,\u00a0said in a statement\u00a0on Monday. &#8220;A superhero in his own right to Marvel fans around the world, Lee had the power to entertain, to inspire and to connect.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the statement, &#8220;Marvel and The Walt Disney Company salute the career and life of Stan Lee and offer their undying gratitude for his unmatchable accomplishments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Lee, the colorful Marvel Comics patriarch who gave the world the radioactive Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk, the legend of Thor and the swaggering Iron Man died on Monday at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 95. Lee, born as Stanley Lieber on December 28, 1922, began his career at what was then Timely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[9653,9652,9654],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305471,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305466\/revisions\/305471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}