He was 95, and had been in ill health for the past year or so.

Before you ask, I know that Batman is DC and not Marvel, and that he was created by Bob Kane (Eli Katz) and Bill (Milton) Finger.

I’m just doing a bit of light hearted trolling, as Lee did at the wedding of Reed Richards and Sue Storm, when, at the end of the comic, Lee and Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg) wrote themselves in as gate crashers given the heave-ho by Nick Fury.

It’s Lee and Kirby doing what every reader of that issue wanted to do: Get thrown out of the superhero wedding of the year.

Batman crying is a sort of an homage to Lee’s sometimes mischievous sense of humor.

In case you are wondering, Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber), Kane, Kirby and Finger were all Jewish.

In a quick perusal of comic book artists of that era, it appears that the only one who wasn’t Jewish was Steve Ditko, whose religion was unclear, but given his Czech origins, he was probably born Catholic.