BALDWIN: Breaking news in the world of Hollywood, an American icon in comic books has passed away. Marvel Comics cocreator Stan Lee, the brains behind "Spider-Man," "Black Panther," "The Fantastic Four" has died. He was 95 and CNN Stephanie Elam takes a look back at his legendary writing career.</s>STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Spider-man, Iron Man, they would not exist without Stan Lee, the visionary behind Marvel Comics lived a life almost as incredible as the characters he created.</s>STAN LEE, COMIC BOOK CREATOR: I'm pretty proud of the fact that some of the stories I wrote so many years ago are still being read and hopefully enjoyed by the public and people are making motion pictures based on them and television series.</s>ELAM: "Spider-Man" debuted in 1962 and became Lee's most successful comic book creation.</s>LEE: "Spider-Man" is my favorite because he's the most popular.</s>ELAM: Lee's spidey senses were tingly. Later a movie was released and was a blockbuster hit.</s>LEE: As a child, I really didn't know anybody who shot webs or crawled on buildings or wore suits of armor and flew or anything like that. I just imagined them, and there they were.
Marvel Comics Creator Stan Lee Dies.