Stan Lee • Marvel Comics

Stan Lee, creator of many Marvel Comics

Stan Lee, who dreamed up Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk and a cavalcade of other

Marvel Comics superheroes that became mythic figures in pop culture with soaring success at the

movie box office, died at the age of 95, his daughter said.

As a writer and editor, Lee was key to the ascension of Marvel into a comic book titan in the 1960s

when, in collaboration with artists such as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he created superheroes who

would enthrall generations of young readers.