The Walt Disney Company said Monday that it would buy the comic book giant Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion.
Under the terms of the deal, Marvel shareholders will receive a $30 a share in cash plus about 0.745 Disney shares for each Marvel share they own. The boards of both companies have approved the deal, which was valued at $50 a share.
With the acquisition, Disney will acquire more than 5,000 Marvel characters, including Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk and the X-Men.
NO! This can’t be. Why Disney? I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
X-Men Beast vs. Beauty & the Beast? You know it’s coming…
If they leave Marvel’s creative alone and just harness the Disney marketing power it could be great. Time will tell.
Pre-teen Storm costumes ? Ugh
Why?
This means that my dreams of an X-Men/Kingdom Hearts crossover could come true! Oh happy day!
Feelin’ better Frankie? Ready to get your ass kicked to the ground by some libs?
Pre-teen Storm costumes ?
That seems to exist already.
As long as Microsoft doesn’t buy DC….
Mickey Mouse now owns the Punisher. Jesus Haploid Christ.
Does this mean that Wolverine will be wandering around Disneyworld? If he’s going around randomly cutting Mickey et al, I might actually go there.
I co-sign with Glenn on this one. This is bad.
Well at least they don’t own Batman. I think the Batman movies should remain as dark as possible. I can’t imagine Disney continuing in that vein.
I don’t care much for Marvel characters anyway.
Marvel? Feh.
I should find this news shocking, but yet I don’t. Everything’s becoming one amorphous conglomerate.
So I steer my daughters away from Disney shows with their godawful materialist bent and buy them Marvel comics and now they strike back.
I see the Avengers moving out of the mansion and into Mickey’s clubhouse. This is the beginning of the real Dark Reign.
I think I need to go cry now. Disney is intent on destroying all that is good. I second the fear of Microsoft buying DC. An almost identical catastrophy.
You know, I look at those old comics from the sixties and seventies and say, “those were the days.”
*sigh* I’ve become an old fart.
The Flash rocks in abundance. Was The Flash a Marvel hero? He was not. Ergo, Marvel does NOT rock.
Oh please, have you people read a Marvel comic lately? Civil War? One More Day? Marvel did a good enough job of shooting itself in the foot already. Face it, the Marvel of your childhood is dead and gone. Get over it.
Do you people even understand how this stuff works? Disney owns ESPN but you don’t see Mickey there, right? Or on Lifetime? Or on ABC? Or any any other thing they own?
Whatever Leroy,
While I have been currently been restructured at the genetic level into a Green Lantern Zealot over the past 12 months; I declare that Marvel has, currently, and in the future the instant before entropy consumes the universe, Pwn3rz your life, mine and even Olivers!
I dunno, I just have a bad feeling about this. Yeah, Disney has a lot of properties in which their influence is not obvious, and Warner already owns DC and has for years, but still . . . something just doesn’t sit right.
Now, on the other hand, if this means Pixar gets to make movies using the Marvel characters, then HELL YEAH!
Leroy, no, you’re right that! However, I was referring to Marvel’s escalating price of comics, NOT the contents of the comics. Have you seen how much a Disney comic cost? I bet you haven’t.
I don’t think Disney will do anything to screw up Marvel any more than Marvel does to itself. This strikes me mostly as a merchandising deal, quite frankly. Outside of Ultimate Spider-Man, I don’t read any Marvel regularly. I’m a DC guy and the soulless corporate overlords haven’t messed with it badly.
If this means Super-Goof will be in the Avengers movie – then I’m all for it.
Mr. Willis, tell that to Dwayne McDuffie and Milestone. I was quite looking forward to reading Xombi again.
“HULK SMASH GOOFY!”
this means Pixar gets to make movies using the Marvel characters, then HELL YEAH!- I second that motion:)
Excuse me while I light myself on fire.
“I’m a DC guy and the soulless corporate overlords haven’t messed with it badly.”
Tell that to Bruce Tim when he was doing Justice League.
I own about 3000 silver age Marvel Comics, and I’m afraid to say this doesn’t move me at all. Marvel has been a shadow of it’s former self for a long, long time now, and Disney can’t do more to screw it up than has already been done. Might even be an improvement, in fact. Stan Lee had the most gigantic legacy of any man in the business, and systematically shredded it.
It was inevitable, I bring you: MODUCK
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If they leave Marvel’s creative alone and just harness the Disney marketing power it could be great. Time will tell.
Tell that to Bob & Harvey Weinstein, founders of Miramax.
I was not a DC fan, but I’d much rather have seen Warners take over Marvel than Disentery. The “Amalgam Comics” crossover from the mid-90s was a glimpse of the mayhem that could have resulted from the blending of the two universes.
Sadly, no. Say goodbye to the MAX Comics Punisher, fanboys.
I remember when Disney bought ABC.
All of a sudden, the only times Disney was mentioned on ABC News, it was favorable.
And oddly enough, nearly every ABC family-oriented show went to Disneyland on vacation…
(Who will be the first to draw Spider-Man or Wolverine with mouse ears? And Steve Gerber must be spinning in his grave now that Donald and Howard are corporate cousins…)
J.
Without reading the thread. DC fanboys who don’t actually read Marvel books out of a childish bias towards DC and/or the 90’s leftover “Marvel Sucks” elitist attitudes, trashing Marvel Comics….that they don’t read.
Am I right?
(Who will be the first to draw Spider-Man or Wolverine with mouse ears? And Steve Gerber must be spinning in his grave now that Donald and Howard are corporate cousins…)
Not about the mouse anymore…now they’ve gotta milk those Hannah Montana tie-ins.
Hanna Montana is a MUTANT!
J.
Excuse me but this is jacked!!!!!!
Now Their going to ruin it!
What now spider mouse!!!
Oh Lord…..
F**k Disney…..
Ths is a sign of all this crap comeing…..
Sad…….gust horrible
I hope nothing will happen to DC