A cosplayer dressed as Spiderman holds a single red rose while listening to friends and fellow colleagues of Marvel comic book legend Stan Lee pay tribute to him during “Excelsior! A Celebration of the Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible and Uncanny Life of Stan Lee” Jan. 30 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. The event was a memorial tribute to Lee, Marvel comic book writer, editor, publisher and producer, who died in November 2018. Lee was an Army veteran and former writer in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II.