Disney is The Perfect Home for Marvel Comics

// September 3rd, 2009 // News

Do you know what? Disney is buying Marvel Comics for US$4 billion dollars. “Marvel’s brand and its treasure trove of content will now benefit from our extraordinary reach.” It’s not as simple as just cashing in the paycheck; complications might arise from buyouts like this.

Disney said on Monday that it would pay cash and stock to acquire Marvel, the comic book publisher and movie studio whose library of 5,000 characters includes some of the world’s best-known superheroes: Spider-Man, the X-Men, Thor, Iron Man and the Fantastic Four.

“This is an unparalleled opportunity for Marvel,” Mr. Perlmutter said in a statement. “Disney is the perfect home.”