As a pre-pubescent youth, I cherished the stacks upon stacks of Marvel comics I'd collected over time (believe me...at 10 cents a clip you could buy a ton of them after a profitable Saturday of mowing lawns around the neighborhood. Needless to say, I howled the day they went up in price to 12 cents a copy....oh, the injustice! lol)
The Amazing Spiderman.....the Invincible Thor...the Incredible Hulk....the Fantastic Four....on and on and on....no question the creative duo of Jack "King" Kirby and Stan Lee were in a league of their own (fie: or those of you who didn't know, at age 23, Kirby created the character, Captain America, in 1940.)
Stan lost his beloved wife, Joan, last year just a few months shy of their 70th wedding anniversary. She was his inspiration for the character, Gwen Stacy, in the Spiderman stories.
Rest In Peace, Stan. Excelsior!
