Bill Maher addressed the backlash over his recent derogatory comments about Stan Lee and adult comic book fans while he was a guest on Larry King Now.

The HBO host was blasted by fans of the late Marvel icon, and Lee's company Pow! Entertainment, after he wrote a cynical blog post for his Real Time show over the weekend in which he calls into question Lee's legacy and fandom in general.

"The guy who created Spider-Man and the Hulk has died, and America is in mourning. Deep, deep mourning for a man who inspired millions to, I don’t know, watch a movie, I guess," Maher wrote on the Real Time website. "Now, I have nothing against comic books — I read them now and then when I was a kid and I was all out of Hardy Boys. But the assumption everyone had back then, both the adults and the kids, was that comics were for kids, and when you grew up you moved on to big-boy books without the pictures."