Stan Lee

Stan Leee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor, and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.

In the 1960s, Stan Lee, together with Jack Kirby, helped create many of Marvel Comic's iconic superheroes and a vast number of fictional characters outside of it. For two decades, Stan Lee was Marvel Comics' primary creative leader, developing it into a multimedia comic-industry/corporation. In doing so, he launched a new wave of creative writing to superhero comics in the 1960s and instigated a change in the Comics Code Authority. Lee remained a public figurehead for Marvel Comics after his retirement in the 1990s; he continued on making his own independent creative properties and collaborated with other writers.

On November 12, 2018, Lee passed away in Los Angeles, California from pneumonia at the age of 95. One of Lee's last projects before his death was the Alliance project, which features an opening recording of Lee in the series' first installment, A Trick of Light.