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If anybody thought that Stan Lee Media Inc., the company which now operates independently from its comic book legend founder, was gone for good, guess again. On Friday, SLMI made a big move in U.S. District Court in California to grab back rights on the fictional character Conan the Barbarian and win proceeds from the just-released Conan the Barbarian 3D film. The new suit comes from SLMI, which has had a rocky history since being founded by Stan Lee in the late 1990s. Initially, the company looked to be on its way towards success after Lee assigned SLMI rights to...

  Website OverviewAbout SLMILegal Document CenterContact Us Home / ABOUT SLMI Historical Overview & Timeline Stan Lee is world renowned as a creative genius responsible for creating Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, X-Men, and many other comic book icons.[link] In 1998, Lee co-founded a company that later became Stan Lee Media, Inc. (“SLMI”).In July 1998, Bankruptcy Court records show that Marvel rejected and repudiated Lee’s employment contract during Marvel’s bankruptcy.[link][link] After Marvel rejected Lee’s contract, Lee was free to exploit his characters. As a result, Lee invested and assigned all of his intellectual property...

Depositions have already begun in this titanic battle. It is a $5 billion lawsuit and will likely be in a New York courtroom next year. There are real issues to the ownership rights of Stan Lee's characters, including Spider Man, Ironman, X-Men, Incredible Hulk, etc. HERE IS THE YOUTUBE TO EXPLAIN THOSE ISSUES

Marvel, Spider Man, Stan Lee and the Wrath of Peter Paul Marvel Faces Wrath of Peter Paul Baron’s feature story June 28, “The Rage Offstage At Marvel” written by its senior editor William “Wild Bill” Alpert, starts off saying, “THE COMIC BOOK’S SPLASH page would show a close-up of Peter F. Paul brooding about Marvel Entertainment, its creative force Stan Lee and the Clintons.” With that comic book flair, Baron’s reluctantly accepted the bona fides of the historic law suit filed by Stan Lee Media in 2007 against Marvel Entertainment for 50% of the copyright profits from Spider Man, The...

NOTE: the article needs something corrected. Jim Nesfield, who represented the investors in the takeover of SLM after the bankruptcy, is the one spearheading the effort. Peter Paul is not part of the lawsuit. Marvel and Lee can claim all they want that there is no basis for the suit. The facts, however, suggest otherwise. Lee signed an agreement with SLM in Oct. 1998 before he signed virtually the same agreement with Marvel in Nov. 1998. The claim was never asserted in the SLM BK. Lee pulled properties out of the BK for his new company POW! without court approval...

The Rage Offstage at Marvel By BILL ALPERT Lawsuits against Marvel, Lee and Bill and Hillary are pressing Paul's claims that a dot-com he started with Stan Lee in 1998 was undone by the actions of the former president, short-sellers and Stan Lee himself. In a Manhattan federal district court, some of Paul's associates argue that the bankrupt dot-com, Stan Lee Media, still owns rights to Marvel characters like Spider-Man and The X-Men. On behalf of the former dot-com, they want half the profits that Marvel (ticker: MVL) is piling up, now that it's producing its own films like the...

STAN LEE INVESTIGATIVE REPORT #1 - TRANSFER OF ASSETS CAVEAT: As a shareholder of a large number of shares of Stan Lee Media, I am involved in the legal proceedings of Stan Lee Media and have a financial interest in a lawsuit against Marvel. Although the financial reporters have failed to investigate the story, Marvel has been sued for $5 billion by the reconstituted Stan Lee Media. BACKGROUND: In November 2006, after almost six years, the bankruptcy of Stan Lee Media was dismissed for cause. After meeting with Peter Paul over three years ago to begin work on the...

Tune in today to the Hugh Hewitt show. If you can't get him on local radio, the steam can be found at KRLA 870 DOT COM Peter and I will be on the show at approximately 3:20pm, Pacific. Hillary, Bill, Howard Wolfson, Kelly Craighead, Chelsea, Rendell, McAuliffe, etc, I hope you are listening. We will see all of you under oath. Streisand, are you ready to raise your right hand? Hillary, you claim to not recall anything, but you are going to be watching five hours of home video and asked to explain. I'll bring you some popcorn. Yeah, in...

WATCH, ENJOY, AND SING ---- HILLARY'S DECLARATION SETS UP HER DAUGHTER TO HAVE TO LIE FOR HER TO PROTECT HER POLITICAL AMBITION SEE PHOTOS, THE SMOKING GUN VIDEO, THE LEGAL BRIEFS, AND ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS AT HILLCAP.ORG Because the mainstream media will not write about this dilemma facing Chelsea Clinton, you will read about it here first. And you will get to see it and sing along with a classic Roy Orbison tune. I was in the Los Angeles Superior courtroom of Judge Aurelio Munoz when David Kendall presented Hillary's sworn declaration to the court. To call it...

Stan Lee Media Sues Marvel Friday, March 16, 2007 By: Ryan Ball Stan Lee Media, a company founded in 1998 by celebrated comic-book creator Stan Lee, is suing Marvel Ent. for $5 billion. Filed yesterday in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the claim alleges that Lee, after his employment with Marvel was terminated nine years ago, transferred rights to comic book characters he co-created to Stan Lee Media ownership. Lee, who is no longer affiliated with Stan Lee Media and has no part in the suit, issued a statement reading, "I do not support...

Stan Lee Media Sues Marvel: $5B Back-from-the-dead dot-com files suit claiming ownership of superheroes. March 15, 2007 By Michael Cohn Stan Lee Media sued Marvel Entertainment for $5 billion Thursday, claiming it co-owns Marvel’s superhero characters, including Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Incredible Hulk. The company is no longer owned by Stan Lee, the comic book legend who more recently hosted the TV series Who Wants to Be a Superhero? on the Sci-Fi Channel, which was produced by his latest company, Pow Entertainment In the suit, filed in the Southern District of New York, Stan Lee Media seeks to assert rights...

Under the radar and ignored by the mainstream media is a very, very big problem for one Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton. That problem is the Clinton role in the collapse of Stan Lee Media, a public company. HOW THE CLINTONS COLLAPSED STAN LEE MEDIA Below is the Aug. 15, 2000 press release memorializing the joint venture with Japanese business partner Tendo Oto. Behind the scenes, Jim Levin, Clinton's eyes and ears in dealing with Peter Paul, used proprietary information and stole the Japanese business partner. When Oto's promised 5-7 mil did not come for the American joint venture in November...

Hillary will be in court this year in Los Angeles, either as a defendant or a witness. Her husband is a defendant. Paul v Clinton is an historic lawsuit. Although the mainstream media will have to be dragged kicking and screaming, they are going to have to cover the trial. Four false FEC reports and Hillary's lying declaration will finally be known to the voters. YOUTUBE - HOW THE CLINTONS COLLAPSED STAN LEE MEDIA Peter gave over $1.6 million in-kind to Hillary's 2000 campaign because of Bill's promise to come to work for Stan Lee Media for one year. Instead,...

HOW THE CLINTONS COLLAPSED STAN LEE MEDIA HILLCAP.ORG HAS A WEALTH OF INFORMATION The mainstream media cannot ignore the story forever. Not long from now, the California Appellate Court will hear the arguments to bring back Hillary Clinton as one of the defendants in Paul v. Clinton. Today, I finally had an email returned by Mark Halperin, head of political unit of ABC News. He apologized for not responding earlier, and he says he has referred the story to the political unit. A field producer called me today to discuss it. It was not long ago when documents were...

A very short hearing was held this morning in the historic civil case Paul v Clinton, et al. Judge Aurelio Munoz ruled that depositions cannot go forward until the appeal is settled regarding his April decision to remove Hillary as a defendant. As usual, despite notification to most of the mainstream sources in Los Angeles, there was no media in the courtroom. It was after the hearing when the fun began. A new toy came on Saturday -- a SONY Digital 8 movie cam. What a perfect opportunity to use it. FReeper The Spirit of Allegiance was the cam operator....

Although the mainstream media has refused to report it, defendant Bill Clinton has a date in a Los Angeles Superior courtroom next March in Paul v Clinton. His wife, daughter, and several of the Hollywood elite will be subpoenaed to testify. So will Ed Rendell. Are you listening, Swanny? Three days after the carpetbagging junior senator from New York raked in a million bucks at the most spectacular private concert ever seen in Los Angeles, Lloyd Grove wrote a story in the WASHPOST about her largest donor's felony conviction from the 1970s. That August 15 story presented her with a...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A state appeals court issued a favorable ruling Tuesday for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in a lawsuit over a lavish 2000 Hollywood fundraising gala. A three-judge panel of the 2nd Appellate District ordered a Superior Court judge to reconsider the senator's motion to remove her from the lawsuit filed by businessman Peter F. Paul, who bankrolled the event. Paul alleged in a February 2004 lawsuit that Clinton; her husband, former President Bill Clinton; her former national finance director, David Rosen, and others fraudulently induced him to underwrite and executive produce the star-studded gala that attracted celebrities...

Judicial Watch first brought the lawsuit in 2001 on behalf of Mr. Paul, who spent nearly $2 million to produce in August 2000 a Hollywood tribute to honor President Clinton and to help raise funds for Hillary Clinton’s run for the Senate. Mr. Paul incurred these expenses as part of a $17 million business relationship he entered into with Bill Clinton to have the president work for Mr. Paul’s Internet companies, Stan Lee Media and Mondo English, after the president left the White House. Bill Clinton reneged on his deal with Mr. Paul, and none of Mr. Paul’s expenses was...

While reporters usually pretend that Bill and Hillary Clinton's legal problems are behind them, Mrs. Clinton seems to know better. That is, at least judging by the way she's handling the latest lawsuit filed against her. Sen. Clinton's office spent a significant part of this week dodging media questions about Stan Lee Media co-founder Peter Paul, who claimed in court documents filed in Los Angeles last week that she and her husband accepted $2 million from him and reported only a tiny fraction to the Federal Election Commission. "Clinton's Senate staff did not respond to the Associated Press' repeated...

Peter F. Paul, the flamboyant Hollywood entrepreneur who says Hillary Rodham Clinton has hidden almost $2 million of in-kind contributions he made to her campaign in 2000, is back from Brazil and promising to raise a ruckus about the New York senator as he fights bizarre securities and bank-fraud charges on which he's been indicted. Aaron Tonken, a political operative in Hollywood and a former protégé of Paul under indictment for a variety of alleged sharp deals with the rich and famous, also is promising to tell everything he knows about behind-the-scenes shenanigans of Clinton and many others. Meanwhile, the...