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Stan Lee, who dreamed up Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk and
other Marvel Comics (漫威漫画) superheroes that became highly successful at the movie box
office, died at the age of 95, his daughter said on Monday.
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to his fans to keep creating," his daughter J. C. Lee said in a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (state). "He loved his life and he loved {#blank#}3{#/blank#} he did for a living. His family and his fans
loved him. He was irreplaceable." Lee was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (wide) credited with adding a new layer of
humanity to superheroes. His characters were not made of stone. They had love
and money worries and suffered terrible shortcomings or feelings of insecurity.
"I felt {#blank#}5{#/blank#} would be fun to show that they are human as
well as super," Lee said in 2010. Many of Marvel Comics movies Lee created
were produced in the first decades of the 21st century, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (add) up to over $20 billion at theaters
worldwide, according to box office analysts.
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not only the co-creation of his characters but the way he helped to build the
culture that comics have become, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} is a pretty significant one," said Robert
Thompson, a pop culture expen at Syracuse University.