Stan Lee's work a reflection of his times

Stan Lee, the reinventor of the comic book, died Monday at the ripe old age of 95.

Comic books get a bad rap, although not nearly as bad as they used to. There was a time when comic books were the cause of an all-out moral panic. After the release of psychiatrist Fred Wertham's book "The Seduction of the Innocent," the Senate held hearings to grapple with the alleged moral rot of comics, which were supposedly fueling juvenile