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Watch comic icon Stan Lee sing "That Old Black Magic" with Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy

by Tyler Munro

Stan Lee is almost 90-years-old, but that didn’t stop him from taking the stage with the Godfather of Goth Peter Murphy at a recent expo to perform “That Old Black Magic,” a song made famous by everyone from Frank Sinatra to Ella Fitzgerald.

Far from a singer, the Spider-Man creator takes the Shatnerian approach to the performance, balancing the former Bauhaus singer’s cold, calculated baritone with the occasional half-spoke, half-shouted interjection. But the real highlight comes just over two minutes in when he inexplicably shouts, “I wish he was a girl!”

He might dance like an old man, but Stan Lee’s wit is still sharp as a tack.