MARVEL legend Stan Lee has been laid to rest in a “small and private” affair in keeping with his final wishes.
The comic mogul, who died on Monday aged 95, was “adamant” he didn’t want a large public funeral, according to his company.
His family held a private closed ceremony, but didn’t release any further details.
POW! Entertainment said in a statement: “Stan was always adamant that he did not want a large public funeral, and as such his family has conducted a private closed ceremony in accordance with his final wishes.”
His firm has set up a memorial wall on Lee’s website where friends, colleagues and fans can share thoughts, prayers and tributes.
Messages from fellow creators and artists will be posted on the star’s social media pages in the coming days.
The company says further memorial plans are in the works, and hopes to share more details soon.
“The grandeur of Stan makes this a monumental task,” the statement said.
The pensioner, who helped create superheroes including Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, was declared dead after being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital on Monday.
Tributes have poured in from Hollywood A-listers linked to the film franchises including Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jr and X-Men star Hugh Jackman.
New Yorker Stan, whose British-born wife Joan died last year aged 95, grew up in The Bronx, where he began reading Shakespeare aged ten, plus the novels of Mark Twain and Arthur Conan Doyle.
After high school, he was hired in 1939 as the office gofer by Timely Comics – a firm that would eventually become Marvel Comics.
He began writing and editing superhero stories and fell in love with the genre.
But when his career later stalled, it was loyal Joan who encouraged him to write the comics he wanted to, not merely what was considered marketable.
In 1961, Stan produced the first issue of The Fantastic Four, about a super-powered team including The Thing who had “normal” human issues and traits.
Other Marvel characters such as Daredevil and Thor offered a similar template, bringing success.
Stan said he tried to make his superheroes “real flesh-and-blood characters with personality”.
In a 1992 interview, he said: “That’s what any story should have, but comics didn’t have until that point. They were all cardboard figures.”
He would undertake a huge amount of the creative process himself – even using several pseudonyms to give the impression Marvel had a large stable of writers.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1980 to develop other Marvel projects, but most of his attempts at live-action television and movies flopped and he was accused of stealing ideas.
It was later left to Hollywood, and Disney, to make his heroes a box office success and rake in £16billion.
A series of poor deals left Stan with a fortune of “just” £36million and he admitted in interviews that he “should have been greedier”.
In one disastrous move, in 1998, he traded off his movie points – a cut of each of the films he was involved in – for a straight £7.7million payout.
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Stan then sued Marvel Enterprises in 2002, claiming the company cheated him out of ten per cent of the profits from X-Men, Spider-Man and the Hulk – settling for another £7.7million.
Seven years later, Disney bought Marvel for £3billion.
Stan, who was battling pneumonia, died in Los Angeles on November 12.
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