“Stan doesn’t own anything with Marvel anymore I believe.”
Didn’t the Clintoons see to the fact that Stan Lee was ruined? Or at least maimed?
There is common ground between the Clintons and Stan Lee.
The Clinton’s buddy Ron Perelman bought Marvel Comics in the 1990s. They also bought one of the primary distributors for comic books (distributing brands besides just Marvel). “Incentives” were given to stores to buy full inventory of the Marvel titles being published and die-cut covers, etc. were pushed on the market (another tulip market). Stores went bankrupt, and the whole industry just about tanked.
Marvel Comics became a penny stock if I recall. I knew that they would be worth something again one day (now $50 a share) if only for the characters. BUT with bankruptcy, that might’ve become worthless stock.
Another tie to the Clitnons. In early 1998, Vernon Jordan recommended Monica Lewinsky to Perelman as a potential employee (I believe it was for a six-figure salary, as Monicagate was firing up and she was being encouraged to lie under oath for Bill).
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/comicwars/Q&A.html
How did everything go wrong at Marvel Entertainment (former stock symbol MRV) when Ronald O. Perelman was chairman and principal owner— from 1989 until he filed for bankruptcy at the end of 1996?
Comic Wars reveals how Perelman built a complicated structure of holding companies to control Marvel, aggressively expanding America’s leading comic books publisher by acquiring subsidiaries at very high prices: Fleer and SkyBox sports trading cards, an Italian sticker company, and a comics distributor called Heroes World...