Author: Lee Moran / Source: HuffPost
POW! Entertainment, the media production company founded by Stan Lee, has joined the backlash against comedian Bill Maher for questioning the late Marvel pioneer’s legacy.
Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time,” faced widespread criticism Saturday for a blog post in which he mocked those mourning Lee who “pretended” that comic books are “sophisticated literature.
”Lee’s Nov. 12 death at age 95 inspired hundreds of heartfelt social media tributes, and caused a 1968 column he wrote denouncing racism to go viral again.
But Maher had a different take. “The guy who created Spider-Man and the Hulk has died, and America is in mourning,” he wrote. “Deep, deep mourning for a man who inspired millions to, I don’t know, watch a movie, I guess.”
POW! hit back Monday with an open letter, in which it called Maher’s opinion “frankly disgusting.”
Please click the below link to read an open letter to Bill Maher from Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment: https://t.co/nw9LiOBZi3 pic.twitter.com/N6W6OqxJ89
— stan lee (@TheRealStanLee)
“Countless people can attest to how Stan inspired them to read, taught them that…
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