Stan Lee (1922– 2018) began his long career with wartime Timely Comics, but "the Man" made comic book history with Fantastic Four #1, harbinger of a bold new perspective in comic book writing that endures to this day. With some of the industry’ s greatest artists, he introduced hero after hero in The Incredible Hulk, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Uncanny X-Men, and more, forming a shared universe for rival publishers to measure themselves against. After a lifetime’ s worth of writing and editing, Lee was involved in movies and television via his company POW! Entertainment. He was Marvel’ s chairman emeritus and best-known public representative.
