Stan Lee was an American publisher, producer, and comic book writer. He expanded Marvel to a multimedia corporation dominating the comic and film industry for two decades as the creative leader. He modeled some popular superheroes in the world, including Iron Man, Thor, the Fantastic Four, Hulk, and Spider-Man. He founded Stan Lee Foundation focusing on education, arts, and literacy. Stan Lee has an estimated net worth of $50 million at the time of his death on November 2018 due to heart and respiratory failure.
Family Life of Stan Lee
Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922, in New York City, New York. His passion as a young kid to write a great American novel led him to work as a Marvel comics editor and grew to be the president and chairman of Marvel. He married Joan B Lee in 1947 and had two children Joan Celia Lee born in 1950 and Jan Lee. His wife died in 2017 from a stroke. Stan Lee died on November 12, 2018, in his sleep due to respiratory and heart failure. His daughter Joan Celia Lee inherited his estates and money and Roy Thomas replaced him as editor-in-chief at Marvel.
Details of Stan Lee’s Career Life
He grew through his family-run business, Timely Comics, which later became Marvel Comics. He began his comics career in Timely Comics in 1929, writing short stories. With artists like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditka, he formed the Silver Age era for comics, creating relatable and human-like superheroes like X-Men and Spider-Man. This move turned Marvel Comics into the top-selling comic company in the world earning $1 million annually. Lee was a good writer and released hundreds of comic books. He scripted, edited, and art directed most Marvel series and wrote a monthly column called Stans Soapbox.
Lee used social commentary in the comics to discuss issues like sexism, drug abuse, and racism. He worked as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics from 1972 to 1992. In 1994 he was added to the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame Jack Kirby Hall of Fame and Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011. Lee was also writing TV and films on series like The Incredible Hulk Spider-Man and Marvel Cinematic Universe Films. In 2000, he sued Marvel for not working in line with his contract for 10% profit on films and television projects that he created. He was paid $ 10 million as a one-time payment.
Marvel company was sold for $4 billion to Disney. Lee retired from Marvel in the 1990s but continued to venture into independent creatives. He founded the stan lee foundation to help support and nurture programs, ideas, culture, arts and promote diversity. He had an art collection of originals from artists like Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, and Roy Lichtenstein.
Lee lived in the same neighborhood with artists like Dr Dre. He sold his condo in San Francisco for $1.35 million. His graphic digital novel Stan Lees God Woke won the 2017 independent publisher books awards’ Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award.
