Since other thread is bumplocked for some reason, I will dump my shit in here as well.
Stan Lee is battling pneumonia.
http://archive.is/hwwbG
He also apparently is cutting off contact with his former acquaintances and friends. Some people suspect that it's his caretakers taking advantage of the old man.
https://archive.is/dOuyh
>Max Anderson has been Stan Lee‘s minder for over a decade. He runs Stan Lee’s Collectibles, which sell a number of Stan Lee signed collectables, the Stan Lee Museum and works with Stan’s company POW. He is also by Stan’s side at all his signings, stage interviews and appearances around the world.
>In recent days, Stan’s other business partners and associates have prevented Max from visiting or communicating with Stan in any way. And the latest news from the Daily Mail, which seems to be being briefed from one side of this conflict, is that Max has now been fired, along with Stan Lee’s lawyer, although the lawyer denies this. And a number of comics industry people are increasingly concerned with the situation
http://archive.is/Uez8v
>According to one insider with working knowledge of Lee’s current situation, “It’s a real fucking mess over there. I think his money will be gone in a few weeks… Stan and [his daughter] JC are literally being picked apart by vultures.”
>In just over two months, there have been published reports of an unauthorized check for $300,000 written from Lee’s business account without his knowledge to Hands of Respect, a “merchandising company” and ersatz charity formed by Lee and Jerry Olivarez, a former business associate of his daughter’s. The word “loan” is inscribed on the face of the check.
>Other red flags included the purchase in the fall of 2017 of an $850,000 condo in West Hollywood a short distance from Lee’s home in the Hollywood Hills; and $1.4 million that mysteriously disappeared in a complicated wire-transfer transaction. Most dramatically—and according to published reports— police on February 16th were called to Lee’s home to remove long-time bodyguard Mac “Max” Anderson
J Scott Campbell is calling industry to speak out on Stan Lee's situation:
http://archive.is/Qguaj
>Forcibly cutting Max out of Stan’s life, and so soon after his wife Joanie has passed seems particularly cruel to the both of them and has caused a lot of us in our industry to talk, much of it about our collective concern about the mystery of who exactly is taking care of Stan now and why is he being kept out of sight and in his home, especially given these reports that he’s been battling pneumonia. I mean, think about it, instead of being taken to a hospital, this ill 95-year-old man is being kept hidden away in his house, the only glimpse of him filmed for exploitive TMZ videos?
>Max took much better care of Stan than this. I have great concern for Stan and I do hope more in our industry start speaking up, start asking more questions and start shining more of a bright light on this situation to find out what’s exactly going on here before it’s too late.