Could Lee News Today

Impacts from the weakened storm could affect New England and hazardous surf and dangerous rip current are expected along the East Coast.

This scene from the 1995 movie  Mallrats captures the long-prevailing view of Lee, the man behind Marvel during the comics renaissance of the 1960s, when superheroes became wittier and more angsty, more human than ever before. To many fans, he  was a kind of god. Yet the same month the movie was released, the magazine  The Comics Journal devoted an issue to Lee that was not entirely favorable. The cover featured a caricature of him as a grinning ringmaster with an oversize head, and cover...