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Very few people in this world don’t know who Stan Lee is.

Today, TMZ is reporting that Stan Lee has passed away, and confirmed by Kirk Schneck, an attorney for Stan Lee’s daughter.

Stan Lee, though he got his start in Timely Comics, would go on to become much bigger. He often voiced the openings of shows such as Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends in the early 80’s. But what truly made Stan Lee a house hold name, beyond those who collected comics, was his appearances in movies. He appeared in the Kevin Smith movie, Mallrats. But when Disney purchased Marvel Comics and started the Marvel Cinematic Universe (simply called the MCU to most), Stan Lee had a cameo appearance in every single one of them – and even made a cameo in the Deadpool movies, which at the time were owned by FOX Studios, as well as the Spider-Man movies, which are currently owned by Sony.

To speak of the legacy that Stan Lee was a part of, along with folks like Jack “The King” Kirby and Steve Ditko would be too long to list – but to give folks an idea – he had a hand in The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, The Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, X-Men, and the list goes on and on.

These characters that Marvel created did something different than DC. While Superman and Batman lived in cities like Metropolis and Gotham; the characters at Marvel lived in real life cities, primarily New York City (where, at the time, Marvel was based).

This helped launch the popularity of these Marvel comic book characters; and Spider-Man would even go on to appear in newspaper strips and had a cartoon in the late 1960s. There have been countless Spider-Man cartoons since. There’s been several X-Men cartoons. Several Avengers cartoons. There is, of course, the movies. And even several characters, such as Daredevil appearing on Netflix specific shows.

To say that Stan Lee’s hand in the creation of these characters, along with those of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, had a massive impact – would somehow still be under stating the obvious.

Stan Lee got his start at Timely comics in 1939, with the help of his uncle (Robbie Solomon). Back then, Stan Lee did not have a heavy hand in much, in regards to creation. He was sent to ensure everyone had ink for their artistic duties and what not. But in 1941, he got a bit of a break by being a text filler in Captain America Comics #3, where he used the name Stan Lee (which he would go on to make his legal name, from Stanley Martin Lieber). He would become an editor at the age of 19, until 1972 where he took over as publisher.

In 1942, he served with the United States Army where his military classification was officially entitled as “playwright” – a title shared with only eight others.

In the 1950s, Timely Comics became Atlas Comics. Late into the 1950s, DC had managed to bring back the superhero genre; and Lee was appointed to do the same, by which time, Atlas Comics had now become Marvel Comics, and Lee did just that, created flawed heroes that drew the appear of many. The Fantastic Four was the first, created along side with Jack “The King” Kirby; and that’s when all the others came along after that. With the Avengers, Captain America, who initially appeared in Timely Comics was brought back, and explained to have been in suspended animation.

I will never be able to explain the impact these characters had on me. Avengers and Uncanny X-Men are what got me into comics a very long time ago. My collection is now into the thousands upon thousands of comics. They’ve helped me in my youth, they’ve given me endless memories.

Stan Lee’s wife, Joan, passed away in July 2017. Stan Lee leaves us at the age of 95. He leaves behind a massive legacy, where his name became a household name, and we have characters that he helped create, that will be remembered by everyone, for a very, very, long time.

I’d like to think, that when he left us, he knew that. And he was at peace with that.

– Tawmis

It looks like Nova and Darkhawk might be headed for the new Guardians of the Galaxy comic book. Also on the team: Star Lord, Phyla-Vell, Gladiator, Adam Warlock, Groot, Moon Dragon, Cosmic Ghost Rider, Silver Surfer and Beta Ray Bill.

There’s a concern of Who Will Stand When The Last Guardian Falls…

Because it is a pretty large team, the catch phrase on the bottom might indicate that something big is going to happen and some of these characters might not be in the rest of the series after whatever happens. Whether that means that these characters drop off – or, what I am fearful of – they will kill some of these characters to give the story “impact” – that some will perish and not be a part of the series.

Corey discovered that Namorita apparently has a special, promotional one-shot series – that neither of us have been able to locate any information on. Corey took to Facebook while I took to Twitter. What’s very cool is that Fabian Nicieza has helped us on our quest to find out more (and I would like a copy – even if it’s a scanned copy – of the book!)

Anyone have any information on this promotional #Namorita one shot? Seems @marvel partnered with @arisefoundation and @MiamiDadePD – and we are looking for a copy of this elusive issue! pic.twitter.com/TVezj1OVxV

— The New Warriors (@New_Warriors) October 12, 2018

Tagging @GlennHerdling who was the editor for Marvel’s custom comics back then… https://t.co/SenBqjR8Pf

— Fabian Nicieza (@FabianNicieza) October 12, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-QSNmeKudQ

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Guest writer, Corey Blake of New Warriors Continuity Conundrum.

Just hearing news that Steve Ditko has died. He is one of the legendary creators of the Marvel Universe as the co-plotter, character designer and original artist for Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. He was the artist that established Iron Man’s red and gold armor, which has defined his iconic look ever since.

Later, after leaving Marvel, he also created The Question, a character that would later serve as the model for Rorschach in the seminal comic Watchmen. He created a new Blue Beetle, who was also the basis for a Watchmen character, Night Owl.

Later still, he created the cult hit character Squirrel Girl and one of my absolute favorites, Speedball, a bouncing bundle of energy.

Before all of that he cut his teeth on creepy, bizarre and weird horror and sci-fi stories that could’ve been episodes of the Twilight Zone.

He continued producing comics on his own terms right until the end, distributing them through 20 successful Kickstarter campaigns managed by his longtime collaborator Robin Snyder. His last one just concluded on July 4th.

His faces were always distinct. His characters often posed in weird and memorable angles. And he drew the best hands.

I had made this almost a year ago, and had forgotten to officially post it on the site – but I made a New Warriors Chat Room on Discord.

Liam brought up on the New Warriors Facebook Group that he thought that the New Warriors community, that originally started back on eGroups, which was later purchased and became Yahoo Groups. But that group was founded way back in December 13th, 1998 – making it so that some of us – most of which have never met in person – have known each other for almost twenty years because of our passion for New Warriors. It’s amazing to me that this community I had started for a comic that had no real presence on the web back then (the original New Warriors Dot Com site was on Geocities; which ironically was purchased by Yahoo and decommissioned – but check out the evolution of site banners that were used), has managed to stay together in many regards, and forge these friendships over the years. Jeremy had written a touching piece about those forged friends back in the day.

Anyway – go go back to the point of this – I had made this almost a year ago, and had forgotten to officially post it on the site – but I made a New Warriors Chat Room on Discord. It’s now linked on the right under Social Media also.

Are you looking for this issue? (Or any comic?) – Consider using our Affiliate Link to help keep the site ad free: Cloak & Dagger (Volume 3)

The entire 19 issue synopsis of the third volume of Cloak & Dagger is now up – this volume of Cloak & Dagger was originally called The Mutant Misadventures of Cloak & Dagger because the story suddenly revolved around the idea that Cloak & Dagger were mutants, and that the drugs triggered their mutant powers.

The series goes on to show that Mr. Jip (one of the worse, all time, ever created characters, ever) spent a very long time (too long in my book) manipulating Cloak & Dagger. Then later, another write came along, and says that it was D’spayre who was there, all along, and that he was the one who led to the drugs being injected, because otherwise their lives would have been too good; and he needed to feed off that despair they emitted – oh, and that, because they were injected with the drugs, it somehow swapped their mutant powers (Tandy originally had the Darkforce, while Tyrone had the Lightforce). All of that said, to say – eventually the entire mutant idea for Cloak & Dagger would later be retconned as a lie from D’spayre.

Are you looking for this issue? (Or any comic?) – Consider using our Affiliate Link to help keep the site ad free: Cloak & Dagger (Graphic Novel): Predator & Prey

We have added the Marvel Graphic Novel featuring Cloak & Dagger entitled “Predator & Prey.”

The story revolves around a being living inside of Cloak’s shadowed cloak; and it resurrects an infamous murderer to commit vile acts and attempt to frame Cloak for them.

This issue also features the moment when Father Francis of the Holy Ghost Church is initially committed to a mental institute by the Church, due to his obsession with attempting to do an exorcism on Cloak in hopes of saving Dagger.

The twitter user, Vak has created the blue prints for the Sam Alexander Nova helmet, which they plan on getting done with a 3D printer.

Check out some of these image:

And see the rest of them on his thread: Sam Alexander Nova helmet.

Are you looking for this issue? (Or any comic?) – Consider using our Affiliate Link to help keep the site ad free: Power Pack (Volume 2)

Power Pack (Volume Two) has been added to the site. I wasn’t originally going to add this, but it really does continue the original volume, since it does focus on the next steps of what happens with the Snarks and Kymellians; and it also has some of the Power Pack children displaying new powers.