Stan Lee was an American comic book writer, actor and entrepreneur who had a net worth of $50 million dollars at the time of his death in November of 2018. Stan Lee is probably most famous for being the former head of Marvel Comics where he was the creator or co-creator of dozens of iconic comic characters including “Spider-Man”, the “Fantastic Four”, “Iron Man”, and “The Hulk”.
During his time running Marvel, he successfully led the company from a small publishing house to a major multimedia Corporation. Under Lee’s guidance, Marvel Comics revitalized the superhero genre in general. In collaboration with several notable artists, like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he was the co-creator of Spider-Man, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, as well as the Silver Surfer among numerous other fictional characters.
Movies involving his characters have generated more than $25 billion in revenue at the global box office. In August 2009, The Walt Disney Company bought Marvel for $4 billion. Stan did not see a huge financial gain from this sale, but Disney did agree to continue paying him a lifetime annual salary of $1 million.
