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Yesterday, Both The East and the West lost the best dreamer at the same time.
In the evening of the Eastern Hemisphere, the funeral of the martial arts giant Jin Yong was held at the Hong Kong funeral home, and the hero was gone.
Almost at the same time, an ambulance rushed up the Hollywood Hills and rushed to the nearest hospital.
Hours later, the bad news came out:
Stan Lee, the 95-year-old father of Marvel, the patriarch of the American comic book industry, also left us.
Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Black Panther... These characters are all from his pen.
Stan Lee alone created hundreds of superheroes, accounting for more than 90% of all Marvel characters;
His comics have been published in more than 75 countries in 25 different languages, with more than 2 billion copies;
Most importantly, he upgraded the comic from a childish children's book to an adult fairy tale with connotations.
Twitter, ins, Weibo were in mourning, and countless fans cried uncontrollably, unable to believe it.
Die-hard fans put on their cos suits and go to Stan Lee's handprint to remember him.
The stars who played Stan Lee's character have expressed their condolences and thanked him for everything he has brought to himself;
Decades of sworn enemies DC also posted that Stan Lee changed the comics.
But we don't have to feel sorry for Stan Lee:
He died at the age of 95, and he is still the only person in the world who has the universe, and this life is worth it.
More importantly, it was his own wish to die early.
"Don't cry for me, I'm going to meet the perfect girl I've loved for 70 years."
Many people probably don't know that without that perfect girl, there would be no Marvel Universe.
In 1947, at the age of 25, he had just retired from World War II and returned to New York to continue drawing children's comics.
His family was poor, he delivered takeaways, worked as a waiter, and lived by drawing children's cartoons before entering the war.
The cousin introduced him to the blind date, "I thought about it, I was poor and white, but fortunately, I went." ”
The girl his cousin introduced him to was betty, a model at a hat shop.
That day, Stan Lee looked for the past according to the address, and what happened next was like Duan Yu seeing Wang Yuyan:
"When I was young, I was always sketching the perfect girl of my dreams."
"The moment I pushed the door open, I saw her."
"Hello, I'm Joanna, a model for this store. What can help you? ”
Stan Lee blurted out, "I'm in love with you." ”
In short, Stan Lee did not meet the blind date and took the Joann girl to lunch.
The two fell in love at first sight, and at lunch, Stan Lee proposed to her.
At this time, although Stan Lee had already drawn Captain America, it was only a children's comic at the time.
Joanna is a staunch English girl who doesn't dislike him, but thinks he's very talented.
The two married on December 5, 1947, and were very loyal to each other for 70 years.
Both of them love literature and art, and they are happy and happy after marriage, and they talk about the philosophy of life from poetry and songs all day long.
But Stan Lee is getting stuck in the bottleneck of life step by step:
He loves literature and dreams of creating great novels, but he draws children's cartoons every day in order to make ends meet.
The 60s comics were childish, with superheroes looking perfect and then fighting monsters all day.
In fact, Stan Lee was a pen name, and he wanted to keep his real name to create great literary works.
"Why is it that complex human nature can be expressed in literature and movies, but the plot of comics is so childish!"
Tired, Stan Lee prepares to quit his job and switch to writing.
"If Shakespeare and Michelangelo had collaborated on comics, no one would have said their stuff was childish."
Joanna told him that what matters is not the carrier, but the story connotation:
"You don't want to do it anyway, why don't you create a comic that satisfies you before you quit?"
Thus, the Fantastic Four, known as the "greatest comic in the world", was born.
The four superheroes in the comics all have flaws, they will be jealous, grumpy, insecure, and finally defeat their opponents through unity.
"It's so real! It's not at all the same as the perfect green tea heroes in other comics! ”
It is these shortcomings and failures that bring superheroes and ordinary people closer together, so they sell well.
Since then, Stan Lee has entered a period of career upswing and begun to have a smooth sailing.
The Los Angeles Times commented that Stan Lee created superheroes characterized by 'personality' rather than 'power'.
"Spider-Man is always worried about not getting a girl out, letting the reader see that superheroes also have human weaknesses..."
Even DC, the giant who has always insisted on the style of perfect human design children's comics, has bowed its head to learn from him.
This is not the end of his reform of the comics. Both Joanna and he believe that the work must have something to say.
As a result, Stan Lee not only painted Superman fighting monsters, but also began to join the serious current affairs issues.
Originally considered "children's entertainment", superhero comics, readers are gradually getting older.
The Los Angeles Times commented, "He pushed the boundaries of comic censorship. ”
Comics make a lot of money, Stan Lee becomes a billionaire, and Joanna lives happily ever after.
But he didn't change his mind, and the two of them drank martinis almost every night.
The reporter asked him how to dispose of hundreds of millions of family properties, he said: "Of course, it is stored in the bank and given to the wife to spend!"
Since the 1990s, Marvel has started to shoot movies, so the old man began to make crazy cameos.
Not only did he make a cameo appearance, he also brought his wife with him to play ticket show love.
As of this year, he is the highest-grossing actor in all-character history in the United States.
He participated in 39 films in his lifetime, with a total box office of about 51 billion yuan.
"Why should audiences come to see Marvel movies? Just to see me!" ”
Mrs. Also made cameo appearances in his films, dubbed the voice, and played an official role, Joanna Lee.
Stan Lee says it's his favorite female character, and as for his favorite male character:
"Of course it's Iron Man, we're just as smart and beautiful and golden as we are, and we have a beautiful genius wife!"
The marriage lasted for 70 years, showing affection in public all day, but sometimes quarreling.
Once, Joanna smashed the typewriter stan Lee used when he wrote Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four.
"What can I do?" She's my wife, I'm all hers, I can hit, the typewriter counts. ”
Love is so sweet, but there are also times when it ends.
Last July, Stan Lee's wife died of a stroke at the age of 93.
Stan Lee was there when his wife died. Since then, he has always had portraits of his deceased wife on his desk.
After the death of his wife, Stan Lee was like a lost soul, and the whole person was in a trance.
During the year, Stan Lee reported several times about his illness, including pneumonia and vision problems.
First he was falsely accused of sexually harassing the nurse, and then he turned his face with the former agent, and he was robbed by two men with guns...
There are also media exposures that Stan Lee's daughter controls and abuses him because of her property.
He repeatedly debunked rumors that his daughter was very good to him, and almost everyone knew it was a lie.
But what can be done? She was after all her own daughter and Joanna's daughter.
There were even companies, along with nurses, who stole Stan Lee's blood and sold it.
The 95-year-old's blood was diluted and made into an ink signature, printed on a cartoon, for five hundred dollars a book.
The absurd things made the media lament the hero's twilight:
Stan Lee was treated like a prisoner in prison. He needs a superhero! ”
But Stan Lee himself only wanted to go with his beloved wife. The reporter once asked him if he was afraid of death, and he replied:
"Not at all. I don't want to live well after my family and friends die, it's too torturous for me. ”
Yesterday, he finally got his wish to get rid of the painful physical bondage and go to heaven to see his beloved wife.
In the first paragraph of the obituary on Marvel's official website, he published his statement:
"I used to be ashamed to be a cartoonist because everyone else was building buildings to practice medicine.
But then I came to realize that entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives.
So now I feel like if you can entertain others, you're doing a good thing. ”
"Comics are fairy tales for adults."
Stan Lee said, "It was my wife who made me create Marvel and become who I am today." ”
Thank you to the two dreamers for creating this wonderful fairy tale of Marvel.
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