Disney buying Marvel Comics???

Quoting from comicvine.com:

This transaction combines Marvel's strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor with Disney's creative skills, unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties, and a business structure that maximizes the value of creative properties across multiple platforms and territories," said Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company. "Ike Perlmutter and his team have done an impressive job of nurturing these properties and have created significant value. We are pleased to bring this talent and these great assets to Disney."

"We believe that adding Marvel to Disney's unique portfolio of brands provides significant opportunities for long-term growth and value creation," Iger said.

"Disney is the perfect home for Marvel's fantastic library of characters given its proven ability to expand content creation and licensing businesses," said Ike Perlmutter, Marvel's Chief Executive Officer. "This is an unparalleled opportunity for Marvel to build upon its vibrant brand and character properties by accessing Disney's tremendous global organization and infrastructure around the world."

Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Marvel including its more than 5,000 Marvel characters. Mr. Perlmutter will oversee the Marvel properties, and will work directly with Disney's global lines of business to build and further integrate Marvel's properties.

"further integrate Marvel's properties"
What the he'll does that mean?!?!?
No singing heroes.

Mutants of the Caribbean. lol

"Xavier's School For The Gifted Musical, The Ice Tour!"

My comic funder told me this, and I was nothing but pleased. I said to him:

"Marvel is done, Disney will rape them like they rape everything. DC never had a chance, their only good quality is Batman... It's our time to strike, we can own comicdom with BUG!"

A world with a Hannah Montana comic book is a world I don't want to live in.

Jonas Brothers Vs. The Avengers!

Why, just why.

well Warner Bros own Dc comics and you never saw a Bugs Bunny/superman team up


or a Spectre VS Voldemort mini series ....

Joe the Carbon Knight wrote:

well Warner Bros own Dc comics and you never saw a Bugs Bunny/superman team up


or a Spectre VS Voldemort mini series ....

The man makes sense... But whenever you think Disney, you think of something that has little to no violence nor adult themes in it. Could they perhaps do this to Marvel.

Wait!
Disney does own miramax and touchstone.
Two alright movie companies.

Devon_Farmer wrote:

My comic funder told me this, and I was nothing but pleased. I said to him:

"Marvel is done, Disney will rape them like they rape everything. DC never had a chance, their only good quality is Batman... It's our time to strike, we can own comicdom with BUG!"

your forgetting about blackest night

I saw this last night on the news when they did stocks and stuff...

i dont think its a terrible thing, just as long as they dont "Rape" anything.

chances are they keep most things the same, and we might get some new movies out of it, like ruben pointed out.

Anyone who thinks this is the death of Marvel makes me giggle. Like I just told Kenny, I may not care for Disney that much, but one thing they know how to do is market. And add Marvel into the fray? If anything. I'd say other companies are now in huge trouble.



And from the other post

The_Fool wrote:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=22747

"Disney executives went to great lengths during the call to make the point that they don’t pretend to be more expert than Marvel is in handling their characters, citing the hands-off relationship Disney has had with Pixar since the acquisition of that studio. Disney said Marvel manages the properties from a business perspective very intelligently and trusts them to make the right decisions for these products for a long time to come."

Told you.

With any luck this means Punisher will gun down the Jonas brothers

Scoped wrote:

With any luck this means Punisher will gun down the Jonas brothers

hahaha I like this idea alot

I had the same thought but with Deadpool,he just seems the type to do that.

i want deadpool to bitch-slap the jonas brothers

Wade Jonas actually sounds real...

That's the thing I fear, characters like Deadpool and Punisher being censored.

disney also owns miramax who is making the new mike judge film, and thats majorly not kid friendly, i wouldnt be worried.

Not to mention all the horror films Dimension distributes, so yea i wouldnt be too worried either

Why must Disney destroy everything I love!?!?!?!?!!? I live an hour away from Orlando and it is Disneyopolis..... now its just gunna go to hell with Universal's Marvel hero Island.... WHY DISNEY WHY IS YOUR MOUSE KILLING EVERYTHING GOOD IN THIS WORLD!?!?!?!?

what the hell disny has the the property of marvel i am gonna ogo right to walt disney grave and beat the dirt (lol im todally joking) but that really does suck

Ohh yeah, that's another, good-bye Marvel Island at Universal, hello one single Marvel ride containing every single character in.. Let's see... Disney Hollywood Studios.

dave wrote:

what the hell disny has the the property of marvel i am gonna ogo right to walt disney grave and beat the dirt (lol im todally joking) but that really does suck

Don't blame Walt, he's rolling in his grave still over what Disney became before owning Marvel, he's screaming: "HANANAH MONTANA!!!"