Defining Moments

THE FIRST AVENGER

Stan ‘The Man’ Lee inspects a Spiderman comic being drawn by artist John Romita. Lee, who passed away 12 November 2018 aged 95, was a writer and editor whose gift of the gab and instinctive common touch propelled Marvel Comics to new heights. His partnerships with artists yielded a pantheon of iconic characters: Spider-man and Doctor Strange with Steve

Ditko, and Fantastic Four, Thor, X-men and Iron Man with Jack Kirby.

1978