Stan Lee was my youngest son's hero. He once did a project on Lee for school, so we learned a lot about him. A lot of people have been talking about how Sears going out of business is a shame because sending out their catalogs during the Jim Crow era was subversive, but Lee was pretty subversive via comics.
We, fortunately, got to meet him at his last Comic-Con appearance a couple of years ago. Genuinely nice person. My little guy was absolutely stunned when we told him yesterday. RIP, Excelsior.