Lee, who died last November at the age of 95, will be memorialized with three separate panels at the celebration of all things pop culture, which officially kicks off on Thursday.
In many respects, Lee served as the comics industry’s goodwill ambassador and indefatigable cheerleader during the medium’s formative modern era in the 1960s and thereafter, before Marvel became a dominant force at the box office.
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More recently, Lee’s amusing cameos in Marvel movies reinforced his connection to the titles he co-created, which included the Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man and the Hulk (all with artist Jack Kirby) and Spider-Man and Doctor Strange with Steve Ditko, who also died last year.
To those who attended Comic-Con in its early days, when the entire convention occupied a few ballrooms in the Grant Hotel, the 50th edition of the event — which now spills out of the massive San Diego Convention Center — symbolizes the cultural and commercial triumph that Lee lived to see, with comics and specifically Marvel becoming a hugely influential force.
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