Stanley Martin Lieber
Hey Prosers,
It’s been a rough time for me right now. I just got home after seeing A Star is Born, when I checked my phone and I noticed that my dad sent me a text message. In the text, he told me that Stan Lee had sadly passed away today. As you can imagine, this news is pretty devastating to me.
Stan Lee was truly one of my biggest idols. I’m sure by now his name and image may be familiar to you due to his multiple cameos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but his status as a legend goes beyond that. Since the 1940s, Stan’s been writing and making comics for a small comic book industry that would be later known as Marvel Comics today. It’s because of him that we have wonderful characters like Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Daredevil, and the Avengers.
People used to ask me which superhero I would like to be. I would always say that I never wanted to be a superhero. I wanted to be Stan Lee, someone who created superheroes we can look up to. Not just superheroes, but extraordinary characters that we could connect with and relate to. It was to say that we, just ordinary people, has the great power and the great responsibility to be heroes.
Thank you, Stan, for being my inspiration, my idol, my true superhero
“I try not to do anything that’s too close to what I’ve done before. And the nice thing is we have a big universe here. It’s filled with new ideas. All you have to do is grab them.”
Rest in peace,
Our greatest superhero
(1922-2018)