If there was one death that rocked 2018, it was that of much-loved comic creator, Stan Lee. It was Lee who gave us so much of the Marvel Comics we know and love, and who took Marvel Comics from a family-run business to a global corporation. Lee is famous for co-creating some of the best-known characters in the world, including Spider-Man, The Hulk, Black Panther, Thor, and X-Men, among others.
Though Lee retired from Marvel in the '90s, he remained a familiar face and figurehead for the business. He still never stopped creating until his death at the end of 2018. Nobody could say that Lee didn't live a full life - he died on November 12, 2018 at the age of 95. The official cause of death was cardiac arrest, but Lee had also been suffering from aspiration pneumonia.