Stan Lee

Stanley Martin Lieber, better known as Stan Lee (December 28, 1922 - November 12, 2018) was a comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business to become Marvel Comics' primary creative leader for two decades, leading its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a multimediacorporation that dominated the comics industry. In collaboration with others at Marvel, particularly co-writer/artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created numerous popular fictional characters, including superheroes Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch and Ant-Man. Following his retirement from Marvel in the 1990s, he remained a public figurehead for the company, and frequently made cameo appearancesin films and television shows based on Marvel characters, on which he received an executive producer credit.

Death
On November 12, 2018, Stan Lee died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California after being rushed there in a medical emergency earlier in the day. He was 95 years old. Earlier that year, he revealed to the public that he had been battling pneumonia, and that in February he was rushed to the hospital for worsening conditions at around the same time. The immediate cause of death listed on his death certificate was cardiac arrest with respiratory failure and congestive heart failure as underlying causes. It also indicated that he suffered from "aspiration pneumonia". His body was cremated and his ashes were given to his daughter.