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Stan Lee, Marvel Comics former editor-in-chief and the creator of some of the best known superheroes died on Monday at age 95. We look back at some of Lee’s iconic creations, including Iron Man, Spider-Man, The Hulk, Black Panther, Captain America and many others many of whom have been huge successes on the big screen. Marvel’s 20 films in the last decade which have grossed a combined $17 billion worldwide. Host Dan Loney talks with David Betancourt, a Washington Post reporter covering the comic book industry with its Comic Riffs blog, and Robert Berry, an artist who teaches courses on making comics at Penn, to discuss Stan Lee’s legacy on Knowledge at Wharton.  

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