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Lee caught 25-year-old student Jen Hickman off-guard when he appeared in the door of a room where she was drawing in her Halloween costume. She came to school dressed as a certain bat-eared, caped crusader who belongs to Marvel's biggest competitor, DC Comics. "You're a Batman fan, obviously," Lee told Hickman. "I'm not talking to you." Lee and his handlers left just before classes ended. Students clutching backpacks rushed to the door. "Is Stan outside? Is he standing outside?" Then they ran outside to wave at the tinted windows of the shuttle bus taking Lee to his next stop. Anthony Fisher, who heads the Savannah art college's sequential art department, said he suspects his students relate both to the timelessness of Lee's comic book characters and to the creator's bottomless enthusiasm. Though Lee turns 90 this December, he still heads up POW! Entertainment
-- a company that creates characters ready to spin off into movies, TV shows and comics. "Stan's passionate really about story and character and that never dies over time," Fisher said. "I think when he meets the younger generation, he sees their passion and their drive and he just feeds off of it." While Hollywood can now realistically render the most eye-popping superpowers and epic battles, Lee said he doesn't see comic books fading into obscurity. "Whether it'll be on the printed page or on an iPhone screen or an iPad
-- there are so many places they can go," Lee said. "But I think with comics there's something about drawings mixed with dialogue that people enjoy. The comic book format, people enjoy that. And I think it'll be around a long time."
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