RIP Stan Lee

FortuitousFluke said:
Weren't there also allegations of financial abuse in relation to his business manager. Link below:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...e-reports-of-elder-abuse-against-marvel-mogul

I vaguelly remember something about family members taking the mick too?
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Yeah, there was a lot of dodgy stuff going on in the last couple of years. He was getting on, but he was devoted to his wife, and I think that when she died a couple of years back, it really did knock him down. It takes away the thing you have to live for, and the shock takes a big toll on your health and can precipitate a quick decline in the elderly. He was 95 so he had a good innings, but it's a shame he had to deal with dodgy people trying to get their hands on his money in the last couple of years.
 
Steampunk said:
Yeah, there was a lot of dodgy stuff going on in the last couple of years. He was getting on, but he was devoted to his wife, and I think that when she died a couple of years back, it really did knock him down. It takes away the thing you have to live for, and the shock takes a big toll on your health and can precipitate a quick decline in the elderly. He was 95 so he had a good innings, but it's a shame he had to deal with dodgy people trying to get their hands on his money in the last couple of years.
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Long term marriages can do that, you often hear how one partner quickly follows the other when they've been together a long time. I actually think the same thing will happen with the Queen when Phillip goes. Like you say it just tears away such a large part of the persons life when someone they've been with for decades and decades dies that it seems to suck the remaining life out of them too.
 
Steampunk said:
I guess he didn't own the intellectual property, Marvel Comics/Marvel Movies did. I did read somewhere that he was paid a million dollars a year by Marvel "for being Stan Lee".
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When you worked for someone, the standard practice is everything you make, design, belongs to your employer i.e. Marvel. Especially in his early career.
 
Crazy that he's had a hand in creating a whole universe of super heroes that the average man or woman on the street would recognise :(

Fact: the films that he's appeared in (cameos) have made $26,089,560,405 ($26B) worldwide. That's some legacy.

Nuff said!
 
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