When Stan Lee died on Monday, a surge of cosmic rays must have come with it: My “Facebook memory” was of me holding up two 1984 Spider-Man walkie-talkies, and within 24 hours the battery in my Spider-Man watch had died. On Twitter I wrote “RIP Stan Lee, a genius who opened up entire worlds of imagination and created so many characters you could appreciate when you didn’t quite know how you fit in.”
That was about the best I could put it, and then I saw that ever-thoughtful Chiefs receiver Chris Conley had tweeted “Stan Lee you will be missed.