Stan Lee, Marvel Comics Visionary Dies At 95

Stan Lee, the colorful Marvel Comics patriarch who helped usher in a new era of superhero storytelling and saw his creations become a giant influence in the movie business has died.

Kirk Schneck, an attorney for Lee's daughter, said the comic giant was taken by ambulance from his Los Angeles home on Monday morning to Cedar's Sinai Medical Center, where he later died. The cause of death is not yet known, according to Schneck. He was 95.