Joan Lee, Stan's Wife of 69 Years, Passed Away At Age 95 (hollywoodreporter.com) 82
Reader McGruber writes: The Hollywood Reporter has the sad news that Joan Lee, the wife of Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 95. In an earlier story, Stan described meeting Joan: "When I was young, there was one girl I drew; one body and face and hair. It was my idea of what a girl should be. The perfect woman. And when I got out of the Army, somebody, a cousin of mine, knew a model, a hat model at a place called Laden Hats. He said, 'Stan, there's this really pretty girl named Betty. I think you'd like her. She might like you. Why don't you go over and ask her to lunch.' Blah, blah, blah. "So I went up to this place. Betty didn't answer the door. But Joan answered, and she was the head model. I took one look at her -- and she was the girl I had been drawing all my life. And then I heard the English accent. And I'm a nut for English accents! She said, 'May I help you?' And I took a look at her, and I think I said something crazy like, 'I love you.' I don't remember exactly. But anyway, I took her to lunch. I never met Betty, the other girl. I think I proposed to [Joan] at lunch." After marrying, the couple returned to New York, where Lee worked at Marvel Comics forerunner Timely/Atlas Comics, a job he initially landed because his cousin Martin Goodman owned the company. Comics were a middling enterprise until Lee and Jack Kirby co-created the Fantastic Four in 1961 (followed by the Hulk, Avengers, Iron Man, X-Men and other characters) and turned the company, renamed Marvel Comics, into a pop culture powerhouse. In some versions of the origin of the Fantastic Four, Lee credits Joan with inspiring him. He was depressed about his career (Lee had dreams of becoming a serious novelist) and the state of comics (the industry in the 1950s was dominated by stories of war, science fiction and romance, genres he didn't like) and contemplated leaving the business. "Before you quit," Joan told him, "why don't you write one comic you are proud of?" And thus was born the Fantastic Four.
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I will only post as AC due to the re-positioning of /. as an astro-turfing tool
That's like, "The pizza had rat turds on it, so I only had two slices."
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We're not plants.
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Re: Sorry for Mr Lee (Score:1)
Granny is a confirmed cheater.
Re:Sorry for Mr Lee (Score:4, Insightful)
Stan Lee has lost his wife. Of nearly 70 years.
What am I seeing here and on social media? Way too many people posting "Stan doesn't have long, either".
Yes -- he's old. Yes, elderly surviving spouses don't often last much beyond their departed. The *PROBLEM* I'm having with this popping up all over social media is that it's tactless. It is without taste. It's poor manners.
It's akin to meeting someone new and saying "Wow, that's some mole you have on your nose". Some things are of so little import that they need no comment and to make one only makes others feel uncomfortable. And I'm not talking about just Stan... *I* don't want to think of a world without him in it.
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Effectively people treat social media like a conversation between friends or relatives, when it is actually more like broadcast news...
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What kind of clothes? [youtube.com]
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People who lose a longtime spouse are usually very old (Stan Lee is 94) and for that reason alone stand a statistically big change of dying in the next 3-6 months.
correlation, causation, blabla
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Stan Lee lives a different life than most people. I'm sure Joan was and is very important to him, but he's not lacking for any kind of company he wants - in fact, I'm rather sure he has full-time staff to regulate how much social interaction reaches him throughout each day.
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We'll all be sorry to see him go but the man left his mark on the world and can leave this plane with grace.
There are a lot of things to love (or hate) about the recent success of Marvel movies, but personally my favorite is that Mr. Lee finally gets to see those comics come to life in a truly spectacular fashion.
There's a lot to be said about the traditional comic format but he's never been shy about wanting to bring Marvel properties to TV and Screen. In countless interviews he has ALWAYS said he loved br
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It's not uncommon for a spouse to die shortly after their partners passing. It's been known to happen within hours or days.
There's a bunch of studies linked in this article [mic.com] for you to ignore.
start the clock (Score:2)
I hate to say it but Stan has been sitting down in the last few cameos. Being married to someone for that long can usually means that the one left will decline rapidly. My granddad didn't last a month after my grandmother passed and they were married for 71 years.
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Sorry, but just like Joan Lee, your grandparents are also burning in hell. Had they repented and been born again, they would have been saved. Jesus can forgive any sin, but you must first accept Him as your personal savior. Hope that helps.
You know, when you really think about that it paints Jesus in a rather hypocritical light.
All that talk of not judging others, loving thy neighbor as thyself, and turning the otehr cheek only to be so petty about who "deserves" to be saved based on whether they personally ask him for it when it's in his power to grant salvation unconditionally.
Dick move JC. Dick move.
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Sorry, but just like Joan Lee, your grandparents are also burning in hell. Had they repented and been born again, they would have been saved. Jesus can forgive any sin, but you must first accept Him as your personal savior. Hope that helps.
If you're going to be in heaven, I'd much rather be in the other place.
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Yeah, but her boyfriend's a jerk. [comicvine.com]
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Actually, as I understand it, he's he's already filmed his cameos for the MCU. [nerdist.com]
Lovely Tribute (Score:2)
May we all be so lucky
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Maybe you don't want to delve too deeply into that.
Haven't felt this sad since BSD died (Score:2, Funny)
When BSD died, I went through the five stages of grief. Ultimately I turned my will over to a higher power. I also planted a small tree to remember BSD by. Unfortunately it was killed a few years later by the pine beetle.
I can't take any more death. I will throw some quarters into the fountain at the mall in memory of Stan's wife. They gather those coins up every Labor Day and donate them to Jerry's Kids. After I get home from the mall tonight I'm also going to watch Jerry "the spaz" Lewis in the original
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Probably NetBSD/OpenBSD?
news for nerds? (Score:1)
my condolences, but news for nerds? do nerds actually like that spandex crime fighting fantasy garbage? i thought comic book fans were more in the loser or at least the dork spectrum
Stan the man will be around for another 5-10 years (Score:1)
Wonderful times ... (Score:2)
... those must have been when you could meet the woman of your dreams like that and be together until death thou part.
Nigh impossible with most ladies today.
I envy him.
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No, life wasn't better then.
I (in this more modern day and age) have met the woman of my dreams.
My grandparents who live in the age you're vaunting chose terribly and were thoroughly miserable until parted by severe illness, followed by death of one of them. Naturally being people of that age and generation, divorce wasn't really on the table even though it would have been of great benefit to them.
Thing is if you weren't so clearly bitter about the ladies you want to be with, they might be more inclined to
Except he's not totally wrong ..... (Score:2)
In modern times, everyone feels like technology enables them to have "better options" than they really have.
Instead of just walking up to a woman who strikes you as amazing, expressing that interest, and it potentially sparking a great relationship? Now you have to compete with all the "Hot or Not?" and Tindr type web sites that encourage you to just flip through hundreds of photos of people you might find physically attractive. You can potentially hook up with ANY of them with just the swipe of your finger