Disney Buying Marvel Entertainment

by Alice O'Connor, Aug 31, 2009 9:41am PDT

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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.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine and 2004's swingalicious Spider-Man 2.

"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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So will this lead to less Obama fist bumps... or more? Time will tell.

Aug 31, 2009 12:05pm PDT

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So will this lead to less Obama fist bumps... or more? Time will tell. : TheMongbat
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  What are you doing here? Why aren't you at the latest gun toting and cross burning convention? : TwwIX
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    Didn't see that one coming. That comment is in the same vein as someone calling anti-bush voters nazis. .... : Ksey17
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      I'm really 50/50 on masterful troll bait or mentally retarded. It can't be a mix, because it's too perfe... : pleasedpig
      
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      because you have to be retarded to not like obama. : Ksey17
      
      No, but taking issue with fist bumping or some other generic expression of joy generally exposes the fact... : syn0r
      
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      No, you have to be retarded to read a joke on a video game website comment, and go into a political diatr... : pleasedpig
      
      I didn't use a double negative by mistake. Also, I'm sorry did you have to read a few lines of somethi... : Ksey17
      
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      I generally shy away from saying anything political on a forum, but it's funny to me that someone can't s... : Ksey17
      
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      You're the only one who brought up those words... It's funny to me that you're sensitive/dumb enough to ... : pleasedpig
      
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      that's odd, I don't remember being the one to bring up cross burning or gun toting. Don't get me wrong, I... : Ksey17
      
      Of course you're not offended, you're fake offended. That's because you're an attention whore. Please a... : pleasedpig
- teachable moment. : jarek99
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  Congrats ksey/mongbat you have replied to your own post 5 times, you officially have lost this fight. : syn0r
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    haha. listen, I WAS interested in what the response was, is that a crime? As you can see I have been resp... : Ksey17
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      You're such a tool. : syn0r
      
      are you just bored today or what? : jarek99
  - What? I forgot that I even made this post. Are you making some sort of sock puppet accusation? : TheMongbat
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  They're called terrorist fist jabs. Get it right or pay the price.
  
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  They're called terrorist fist jabs. Get it right or pay the price. : CyCo_PL
- Guys, guys. Are you even aware of what I am talking about? Spider man was participant to one of the mos... : TheMongbat

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