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Operator Good morning, and welcome to SiriusXM's first-quarter 2021 financial and operating results conference call. Today's conference is being recorded. [Operator instructions] At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to Mr. Hooper Stevens, senior vice president, investor relations, and finance. Mr. Stevens, please go ahead. Hooper Stevens -- Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, and Finance Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to SiriusXM's first-quarter 2021 earnings conference call. Today, we will have prepared remarks from Jennifer Witz, our chief executive officer;...

A long-running dispute about Lee's legacy obscures his real genius for creating empowered fan communities.

Join / Sign In CNET editors pick the products and services we write about. When you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Stan Lee biography mines Marvel icon's complexity: 'Neither saint nor Satan' Abraham Riesman talks about writing True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, which explores the man behind the myth -- and sometimes is uncomfortable to read. Feb. 18, 2021 3:47 p.m. PT Stan Lee, seen in 1991, led a life of complexity rivaled by that of the characters he helped create.  David Pokress/Newsday RM via Getty I...

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 lines teased “a circus of celebration” alongside “a carnival of criticism.” Inside, one art...