Stan Lee is sadly gone, but the Marvel icon is far from forgotten, especially in the L.A. County District Attorney's office. Jackie Lacey's crew has hit the Spider-Man and Avengers co-creator's former business manager with elder abuse charges. Keya Morgan is facing one felony count of false imprisonment of an elder…

Stan Lee is gone from the physical world, but he’s still around on film if you look closely. The new Captain Marvel offers two homages to the co-creator of most of Marvel’s most beloved characters. The first film since Lee passed away in November has redesigned the opening Marvel Studios credits logo as a tribute to…

Update, with video Bill Maher still has no sympathy for Stan Lee fans, at least when it comes to their insistence that comic books “are literature.” Two months after he drew fanboy ire following Lee’s November death, Maher revisited the subject for the episode-closing New Rules segment during tonight’s Real Time with B…

Program and ticketing details are emerging about the Jan. 30 tribute to Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, who died Nov. 12 at age 95. The program, which is titled “Excelsior! A Celebration of the Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible and Uncanny Life of Stan Lee,” will be a ticketed event that begins at 4 p.m. and includes…

The Stan Lee tribute event expected since the icon died in November is set: “Excelsior! A Celebration of the Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible & Uncanny Life of Stan Lee” will take place Wednesday, January 30, at Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre, with both public and invite-only private events, the latter including such…

Amid the chaos that was 2018, the show business industry lost some major players. There were icons of the big screen (Burt Reynolds) and TV (Penny Marshall, Billy Graham, Anthony Bourdain), along with such legends as Marvel hero Stan Lee, sportscaster Keith Jackson and singer Aretha Franklin, to name just a few of the…

It was a melancholy milestone on Friday: Marvel Comics pioneer Stan Lee would have been celebrating his 96th birthday and likely basking in the achievement of Black Panther and The Avengers: Infinity War, which are about to finish 2018 as the year’s two top-grossing films. Both movies were (like so many superhero…

When Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse arrives in theaters on Dec. 14 it will be the sixth major studio film this year to feature a cameo by Stan Lee but the first released since his death on Nov. 12 at age 95. For the filmmakers, the timing of their release – a mere 32 days after the publishing legend’s death…

Stan Lee died earlier this month but his superhero ideas live on. The B-Team, an idea from the Marvel Comics icon, is being adapted by a South Korean production company. Studio Invictus is developing a live-action TV series based on Lee's idea of a group of B-list superheroes fighting against the mad scientist that…

UPDATE with video interview, Wednesday 12:30 PM: Bill Maher recently appeared on Larry King Now and addressed his comments about Stan Lee and comic books that have drawn ire and backlash from social media. Last week, Maher wrote a post on the Real Time blog titled “Adulting” saying that Lee inspired people to “watch a…

Comics icon Stan Lee was laid to rest earlier this week in a private funeral, but his POW! Entertainment company is planning a large public celebration of his life and legacy, according to a Twitter tweet. “Stan was always adamant that he did not want a large public funeral, and as such his family has conducted a…

This week, comic book legend and pop culture icon Stan Lee died and while his fans, colleagues, and members of the Marvel Cinematic Universe mourned his death, Bill Maher addressed his death from another angle. On the Real Time With Bill Maher blog, Maher recognized that the world is mourning Lee’s death but…