Stan lee biography video for students

Stan Lee was a seminal part of Miya Crummell’s childhood. As a young, black girl and self-professed pop culture geek, she saw Lee was ahead of his time.

“At the time, he wrote ‘Black Panther’ when segregation was still heavy,” said the 27-year-old New Yorker who credits Lee with influencing her to become a graphic designer and comic book artist.

“It was kind of unheard of to have a black lead character, let alone a title character and not just a secondary sidekick kind of thing.”

Lee, the master and creator behind Marvel’s biggest superheroes, died at age 95 on Monday.

Stan Lee, the man who invented Spider-Man - LearnEnglish Teens

As fans celebrate his contributions to the pop culture canon, some have also revisited how the Marvel wizard felt that with great comic books came great responsibility. When black people were risking their lives in the 1960s to protest discrimination where they lived and worked, Lee enacted integration with the first mainstream black superhero. Stan Lee, the man who invented Spider-Man - LearnEnglish Teens XYZ