Stan Lee's cause of death revealed

The cause of death has been released for Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee.

The County of Los Angeles Health Department death certificate, issued Tuesday and posted by TheBlast.com, says Lee, who died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Nov. 12 at 9:17 a.m., expired of cardiac arrest, respiratory failure and congestive heart failure. A secondary cause was aspiration pneumonia, which occurs when food, drink, vomit or saliva is inhaled into the lungs.

Lee, 95, who lived in Woodmere and Hewlett Harbor from 1949 to 1980, during the time he co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, the Black Panther and numerous other comic-book characters, is survived by his daughter, J.C. Lee, 68, of Los Angeles, and his brother, former Marvel writer-artist Larry Lieber, 87, of Manhattan.