Love for Stan Lee on Social Media and More

01This is what's trending today.

02Messages in honor of Stan Lee are pouring in on social media and other online sites.

03Lee is the creator of famous comic book characters, including Spider-Man, The Hulk, Black Panther, and others.

04He died Monday in Los Angeles, California.

05He was 95 years old.

06Marvel Entertainment and its parent company, Walt Disney, posted a video about the late writer, editor, and publisher on their websites.

07Disney chairman and chief Bob Iger said Lee is a superhero in his own right to Marvel fans around the world.

08He compared Lee to his comic book characters with the power to inspire, to entertain, and to connect.

09Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York City.

10He began writing for comic books at 19.

11He wrote under the name Stan Lee.

12He explained that he used a false name because he wanted to write a serious and great piece of literature someday.

13He did not want his link with comic books to be known when that happened.

14But it never did happen.

15As the pride in his work grew, he decided to legally change his name to Stan Lee.

16Lee's characters often had superpowers, but they also had weaknesses and moral failings.

17They got up and went to work every morning.

18They were humans, not gods.

19They lived in New York City and other parts of real America.

20They not only struggled to save the world, but also to pay their bills, make friends, and hold jobs.

21This made Marvel comic book heroes stand apart from its competitor, DC, the company that produced the seemingly perfect heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman.

22In a piece for Marvel in 1969, Lee discussed the importance of creating these balanced characters.

23Nobody is all good or all bad, he wrote.

24Like Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man.

25He is a deeply gifted inventor with serious mental health issues.

26Or Peter Parker, a sensitive, brainy high school student who has no idea how to deal with the frightening abilities he gets from the bite of a radioactive spider.

27Even Steve Rogers, whose Captain America was the most Superman-like of the Marvel group, had problems.

28Rejected as a candidate for the armed forces, he volunteers to take a super-soldier substance to make him a super-fighting machine.

29Actor Chris Evans has played the character in several Hollywood films.

30He posted a tribute to Captain America's creator on Twitter Monday.

31There will never be another Stan Lee, he wrote.

32Actor, writer, and funny man Seth Rogen never played one of Lee's characters, but he remembered him with thanks in a tweet.

33Thank you, Stan Lee, for making people who feel different realize they are special, he wrote.

34Actor Zoe Saldana played Gamora in the Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers film series.

35Today we lost one of the greats, she wrote on Twitter Sunday, calling Stan Lee superhero to us all.

36And that's what's trending today.

37I'm Pete Musto.