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Excelsior! Disney buys Marvel

What do Bambi and Wolverine have in common? If all goes according to plan, they’ll both soon be part of the Disney family. According to The Wall Street Journal‘s Market Watch website, the deal, which was announced today, involves a stock and cash transaction that would see Marvel shareholders receive $30 per share plus “approximately 0.745″ Disney shares for each Marvel share held. The price for the entire deal is in the neighbourhood of $4 billion U.S.

From Market Watch:

“This transaction combines Marvel’s strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor with Disney’s creative skills, unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties, and a business structure that maximizes the value of creative properties across multiple platforms and territories,” said Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company.

The deal brings Disney one step closer to complete world domination. Future crossover issues of Marvel comics will likely feature Mickey Mouse in a fight to the death with Magneto and Dr. Doom, and the Fantastic Four joining the X-Men in a rousing rendition of “It’s a Small World.”

  • http://magazinnes.blogspot.com Tygrus

    Amazing Disney!

    I´m still in shock, but in the meantime, i feel lucky to be an eyewitness of… this.

  • Joshua

    Ladies and gentlemen, a great giant has died today…

    Marvel is officially dead.

    Thanks to a decrepid mouse, whom was holding the 4 billion-dollar gun.

    Good night sweet prince….

    Marvel Entertainment

    1933 – 2009

    All hope…is lost.

  • Ryan

    Never would I suspect the Disney tyrant would do something like this. What are they going to do with a comic book company? This is preposterous, there must be something we’re not seeing, something Disney must have been holding over Marvel’s head. If Stan Lee were dead (thank goodness he is still kickin’) he would be rolling in his grave if he had not had a say. In my honest opinion, this isn’t a smart move on Marvel’s part for selling, and Disney for buying. Say goodbye to childhood comic book heroes and great stories butchered by Disney’s “cut corner” techniques. I guess we’ll just have to wait this out to see how it goes, hopefully Marvel will still have a booth at next years San Diego Comic-Con. We can only hope. Disney you tyrannical, money grubbing, crazies…thanks for ruining childhoods from over the past 7 decades..we hope your happy…but not really.

  • http://carneyshegerian.com/ Discrimination Lawyer

    How will this change what Marvel does? I guess we will see.

  • http://www.planetmarkus.com Markus

    I’ve always considered Marvel and Disney as two entirely different beings from two entirely different planets. Its really hard to imagine them under one roof!

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