According to an obituary in a local Florida paper, a huge comic book fan named Stephen Merrill died the way he lived. The obit lists the cause of death as an "uppercut from Batman." Yes, that Batman — The Dark Knight.
Family and friends published the obituary in The Ledger, a local paper from Lakeland, Florida, last week. After Merrill's sudden death on February 12th at the age of 31, the family didn't know what to write as the cause of death — one had not yet been officially determined. He had been fighting cancer since 2013.
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