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In the wake of his death on 12 November 2018, fans of Marvel Comics patriarch Stan Lee shared a pointed message from him condemning bigotry of all stripes published almost exactly 50 years earlier. Lee, who co-created superheroes like the X-Men and Black Panther during his tenure as the company's editor-in-chief, took on prejudice directly in a 1968 edition of his Stan's Soapbox column that ran in Marvel titles between 1967 and 1980. He wrote: Instead of using his customary phrase, Excelsior, Lee signed the column Pax et Justitia -- Latin for Peace and Justice. Lee's verified Twitter account posted the column in its entirety in August 2017, shortly after the killing of Heather Heyer by a white nationalist as she took part in an anti-fascism demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia. The post was deleted after Lee himself took control of the account in May 2018. In October 2017, Lee also posted a video reiterating his view that Marvel's array of characters would always reflect the world right outside our window. Those stories have room for everyone, regardless of their race, gender or color of their skin, he said. The only things we don't have room for are hatred, intolerance and bigotry.
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