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I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.

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Stan Lee
Age: 95 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 28
Died: 2018
Died: November 12
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Manhattan borough
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Stanley Lieber
Stanley Martin Lieber
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