Disney Buying Marvel Entertainment

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Disney has announced that it intends to buy comic book giant Marvel Entertainment in a stock and cash deal worth around $4 billion, subject to Marvel shareholder approval.

The deal includes Marvel's over 5000 characters, who have starred in games ranging from the sublime 1992 X-Men arcade side-scroller and gory X-Men Origins: Wolverine, to the critically-panned movie tie-ins Iron Man and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

"We are not doing crappy movie-based games anymore," Marvel digital media VP Ira Rubenstein recently declared. Tie-in games for the Iron Man 2 and Thor movies are in the pipeline, along with unknown fruits of Marvel's ten-year MMO deal with Gazillion.

Marvel's chief spandex rival DC Comics has been owned by Warner Bros. since 1969.

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    August 31, 2009 9:45 AM

    Can't say it's a complete surprise, wonder what the shareholders think about it.

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      August 31, 2009 9:48 AM

      They're too busy lighting cohibas with thousand dollar bills.

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        August 31, 2009 12:34 PM

        Funny entry on Warren Ellis' Twitter today related to that:

        "so I got this phone call from Joe Quesada and it was just the sound of him rubbing himself with money and now I am confused"

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      August 31, 2009 9:57 AM

      dont mind at all! w00t!

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      August 31, 2009 10:04 AM

      Marvel stock jumped ~25%

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      August 31, 2009 11:57 AM

      As an almost stockholder, I want to kick myself. I was looking at Marvel's stock about two months ago and thought ... "Wouldn't it be fun to own a piece of my childhood?"

      Then said to myself, "Ah, waste of money."

      D'oh!

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