Disney Buys Marvel Comics Comics

By Rawls — Sep 03, 2009, 01:04 pm CDT

Disney Buys Marvel Comics

Disney will now compete with Hollywood (and in particular, Warner Bros. the owner of DC Comics) buy purchasing Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion dollars, according to Variety.

What will this mean for our favorite comics characters - and the animation studios Disney controls? Will Donald meet Howard The Duck? Will The Incredibles cross over to fight The Fantastic Four? Will Disney Feature Animation do an Inhumans movie? Will Disney character comics be published by Marvel? How will this affect the theme parks? Disney XD?

 I personally shed a little tear when I heard the news.

Due to prior deals (for example, Iron Man is sown up at Paramount for years to come) nothing will happen right away, but lots to think about, and lots of exciting/lame possibilities.

 Jack Kirby Mickey

Image of Mickey above drawn by Jack Kirby for Craig Yoe’s book The Art of Mickey Mouse.

And the top image is drawn by Dustin Nguyen.


 

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  • ronnie1

  • ronnie1

    Apr 27, 2012

    That's all we need bigger corporations when will it end?

  • maddsketch

  • maddsketch

    Sep 05, 2009

    I'm hoping that nothing majorly stupid comes up with this situation.  I'm hoping that this will help them get all their licenses  back from all the douches that destroyed their characters in movies.  But in terms of Disney Characters with Marvel Characters, i don't even know if it would catch our attention really.  And i'm pretty sure they can't just sensor anything Marvel does cause look at Miramax.  Disney owned Miramax since 1993.  I will be reserving judgment on this one because i would just like to enjoy something terrific happen and everyone just be surprised by it.

  • axl99

  • axl99

    Sep 04, 2009

    I've been keeping tabs on this since I first heard about the news via one of the Marvel guys on Twitter. It might not extend itself into the Marvel comics area, as most of the Marvel freelancers were afraid of, but it may just only be for the movie entertainment sector.

  • SuperJMan

  • SuperJMan

    Sep 03, 2009

    the only up side i can see is kingdom hearts/X-men lol otherwise wtf

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