Joan Boocock Lee

Model

Birthday February 5, 1922

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

DEATH DATE 2017-7-6, Los Angeles, California, U.S. (95 years old)

Nationality United States

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1920

Her father, Norman Dunton Boocock married her mother Hannah Clayton in the Castle Ward district of Northumberland in 1920.

In one interview, she stated that she was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, and grew up there and in Fawdon.

1922

Joan Boocock Lee (5 February 1922 – 6 July 2017) was a British-American model and voice actress.

Joan Boocock's birth was registered in the first quarter of 1922 in Castle Ward Rural District (now part of Newcastle's Metropolitan Borough) according to her birth register records.

1940

She was the wife of comic book creator Stan Lee, whom she met in New York City in the 1940s while working as a hat model.

1943

After World War II, she relocated to the United States as a war bride after marrying an American serviceman, Sanford Dorf Weiss, whom she had only known for 24 hours prior to their marriage in 1943.

Boocock was a well-known hat model prior to her marriage to Weiss.

She separated from Weiss not long after.

Lee's cousin had set him up on a blind date with a different model at the agency where Joan worked.

When Lee went to the modelling agency to meet his intended date, Joan answered the door instead.

Upon seeing her he immediately professed his love for her and told her he had been drawing her face since childhood.

Lee proposed after two weeks of dating, and she went to Reno, Nevada in order to nullify her previous marriage.

1947

On 5 December 1947, she received an annulment for her previous marriage, then married Lee in the room next door.

1949

In 1949, the couple bought a two-story, three-bedroom home in Woodmere, Long Island, living there through 1952.

Lee credited Joan as being the inspiration for early incarnations of the Fantastic Four.

She was also the inspiration of Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man's second girlfriend in the comics.

1950

Together, they had two daughters, Joan Celia "J. C." Lee (b. 1950), and Jan Lee, who died eight days after delivery in 1953.

As an interfaith couple they subsequently faced difficulty adopting.

1981

In 1981, Stan and Joan Lee moved from New York City to Los Angeles.

1987

In 1987, Joan Lee wrote The Pleasure Palace, her first novel.

According to her daughter, Joan had also completed three unpublished novels.

1990

In her later years, Lee became a voice actress and appeared in the Spider-Man and Fantastic Four animated series in the 1990s.

Kevin Smith referred to Joan as "Stan's personal superhero" and "Marvel Muse".

There, she lent her voice to several animated Marvel shows in the 1990s.

1994

She first appeared in Fantastic Four in 1994, voicing a reoccurring character.

She voiced a computer in the Iron Man television series for three episodes in 1994.

1996

She later appeared in Spider-Man as Madame Web, appearing in eight episodes from 1996 to 1998.

2002

In 2002, she appeared as herself alongside Stan Lee and Kevin Smith in Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters & Marvels.

2003

In 2003, she appeared as herself in the documentary Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked.

2010

In 2010, she appeared in a documentary about her husband called With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story.

2016

Lee made her last appearance in a cameo in the 2016 film X-Men: Apocalypse alongside her husband.

2017

Lee died on 6 July 2017, in Los Angeles from stroke-related complications with her husband of almost 70 years and their daughter, Joan, at her bedside.