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If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn't be as worthwhile an artform as anything on earth?

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Stan Lee
Age: 95 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 28
Died: 2018
Died: November 12
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