WWII Veteran, Marvel Comics legend, Stan Lee dead at 95

By Chris Eger

Stan Lee, born Stanley Martin Lieber, spent most of his life in the comics industry– with a break for WWII service in the Army– and with fellow artists, co-created legions of iconic characters, many of whom carried guns. (Photos: Lee during his military service, via U.S. Army/Lee at a 2011 Comic-Con event with servicemembers, via, U.S Coast Guard)
Longtime Marvel Comics head and chronicler of superpowers both real and portrayed, Stan Lee, died in Los Angeles on Monday.
Lee, born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922, grew up in the Bronx and by age 17 was working at Timely Comics, a company that would later grow into Marvel. Some seven months before the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor brought the country into World War II, Lieber, using the pseudonym Stan Lee, wrote his first comic, Captain America #3. Setting down his pencils, Lee soon put on a uniform and joined the Army Signal Corps shortly after hearing of “The Day Which Shall Live in Infamy,” working as a lineman before his skills were put to better use in making training films.
While Lee, along with now-celebrated artists such as Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and John Rimota, would help invent and shepherd hundreds of characters

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