The highest-profile gay superhero is the current version of Batwoman, who's now featured in Detective Comics.
Posted on 08/31/2009 6:49:44 AM PDT by relictele
BURBANK, Calif. - Spider-Man and Iron Man have a new boss: The Walt Disney Co.
Disney announced this morning that it is buying Marvel Entertainment -- and the more than 5,000 Marvel characters.
They include X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor.
"This is a great fit for us," Disney boss Bob Iger told CNBC this morning. He said the acquisition was a way to attract more boys.
Disney said the transaction value is $50 per Marvel share -- or about $4 billion. Iger said the acquisition will grow both Disney and Marvel.
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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...
That’s what I was thinking — I can see Pixar lending their talent to some really good animated Marvel movies. The live action films are pretty solid — especially Spider-Man — but some serious animated flicks could do a lot to promote the brand.
If Disney wants to do some good they could shut down ABC and rename ABC Family into Rated X Kids Network or something more label-true
The “live action” superhero films are largely computer animated films anyway these days.
...and the BIG SUPER DOOOOOPER johny dep movie tie in was..........two lame animatornics that resembled dep. (oh and the put in new speakers to replace the old speakers they had to replace ANYWAYS)
The highest-profile gay superhero is the current version of Batwoman, who's now featured in Detective Comics.
And I hope the trend continues. Not to the detriment of live action films — I love cinema — but as 3-D animation improves to the point of being (almost) real I won’t complain if we see more fully animated films. I sure would like to see The Duke in a western again, or a “younger” Harrison Ford as Indiana! (But only if the story is as good as Raiders.)
good lord.
Walt is spinning in his grave, has been for about 20 years
Now you’ve done it. I’ve got this image in my head of the Marvel Comics characters all singing Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast. Not being able to lose the music in my head is bad enough but the picture in my mind of Deadpool and Cable holding hands singing is just too much.
Lasseter is the chief Creative Officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He’s also the principal creative advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering (he helps design the rides for Disney’s theme parks).
After Disney bought out Pixar, Lasseter became the head of the Walt Disney Animation Studios. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple and ex-CEO of Pixar, now owns 7% of Disney and is the largest shareholder of the company.
Raiders will always be “better” than an animated version because it largely used older special effects techniques and has the capacity to hit those Ray Harryhausen moments.
An animated version might be as perenial as Shrek, but it won’t replace box office faces.
But Raiders was largely built on nostalgia for adventure serials and WWII lore.
A contemporary superhero film isn’t locked into that.
Eisner is no longer running Disney. There is no doubt in my mind that Eisner was THE catalyst behind the company openly promoting not only a gay agenda, but adopting anti-family tones in many of its products.
The first thing that happened when Eisner was ousted is the company (at least publicly) dumped the pc stuff and got back to its core buisness: producing family entertainment. The current people in charge understand that Disney makes its money from famalies, and they have gone out of their way not to offend famalies (at least with any product that actually has the Disney name on it, some of the Touchstone picture products are iffy.)
Hence the reason the Disney boycott has ended.
This seems like a solid aqusition for Disney. It allows them to appeal to a segment they were missing in their current offerings (boys, of all ages really.) How many boys watch the Disney channel? Look for some new shows based on the Marvel characters (does this give them enough to start a new animated channel?)
The end of the Iron Man and recent Hulk movies hinted at a new movie containing several Marvel characters. No doubt it will be a blockbuster that will produce huge secondary sales in toys, etc...
I believe Stan has a lifetime contract that pays him a nice stipend if I’m not mistaken.
But if he had retained ownership of all the characters he created in whole or part, he’d be as rich as Bill Gates.
Marvel invented the gay superhero long before Disney arrived:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northstar
Openly gay since 1992, and John Byrne has said homosexuality was part of the character concept since ‘83.
Five large on Stitch.
Stan Lee has said that Percy Pinkerton from “ Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos” was gay, but he said he did it because it would be “colorful” to put an effeminate guy in this ultra-tough special forces unit, and he never had it in mind to “promote gayness.” Pinkerton joined the team sometime in the mid-Sixties.
Nah, Red X is a DC character...a Teen Titans villain. And even though he’s a doppleganger of the mighty Robin...Stitch in 2 rounds.
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