Before his death at age 95, Stan Lee told me he wanted to be most remembered for Spider-Man

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The last few years of Marvel’s legendary writer, editor and publisher were certainly tough. Before his death, confirmed today, at age 95, Stan Lee had been embroiled in nasty litigation and other unpleasant matters related to his personal affairs. He also lost his beloved wife of 69 years, Joan, who died in 2017. Before all of that had really begun in earnest, though, I got a chance to talk to Stan about his career, and among the highlights he shared with me: No way did he want to slow down, never mind that he was in his 90s.

He was hard of hearing, so you had to repeat most of your questions at least once, but he gave as good as he got. I asked about his creative habits, for example, if he was like the kind of artist you imagine who’s constantly scribbling down ideas in a notebook. “I do NOT scribble,” he snapped back in that thick accent. “I have beautiful penmanship.”

Stan, who news reports say died this morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, also told me that for everything he’s done since starting in the business in 1939 — creating or co-creating everything from The Mighty Thor to Iron Man, The Fantastic Four and so much else — he most wanted to be remembered for the creation of Spider-Man.

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