Comic book legend and Marvel co-creator Stan Lee passed away today at 95 years old.
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00:00We've been together for so many generations, I don't want that to stop.
00:06I don't consider you as fans, I consider you as close, close friends.
00:30The publisher walked in and saw me there and he said, hey kid, who are you?
00:45I said, I work here. He said, well, do you think you can hold down the editor's job until I find somebody else?
00:50I said, well, I'll try. And he never found anybody else.
01:00I was thrilled because as a reader, I loved that character.
01:09Captain America was a product of World War II.
01:12We were fighting the Nazis. It was a life and death struggle.
01:16Somehow we needed a hero, somebody to represent the fight of liberty versus tyranny.
01:23I think you never outgrow your love of these stories of giants and ogres and witches and all of that.
01:37Superhero comics give you that.
01:50I was sitting and I saw a fly crawling on the wall.
01:52And I said, wow, suppose a person had the power to stick to a wall like an insect.
01:57So I was off and running and I thought, what do I call him?
02:01I tried Mosquito Man. That didn't have any glamour.
02:04Insect Man, that was even worse.
02:06And I got to Spider-Man.
02:09It sounded mysterious and dramatic and, lo, a legend was born.
02:37To me, it is such fun creating characters, writing stories.
02:42I think if you do what really excites you, it just keeps you going as long as possible.