Disney Buys Marvel, Comic Book Geeks Collectively Shudder

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So Disney bought out Marvel for a whopping $4 billion, which means they own everyone’s ass from Iron Man to the Hulk and about 4980 other lesser known characters. And this has some comic book fans bracing for the worst. Like this person who is worried about the Magic Kingdom’s puritanical influence: “I have a baaddd feeling about this. Marvel’s distinction has always been that its characters have had highly dysfunctional lives. Alcoholics, schizophrenics, wife-beaters, killers. But now the Punisher and Wolverine owned by the Mouse?” Could some of this fear be misplaced? After all, it was Marvel that decided to whore out Spiderman and turn the web slinger into a musical. Nah, Disney’s ability to maintain a solid evil core while acting as the stewards of purity and children’s entertainment should have fanboys frightened to the bone.

By Bucky Turco on September 1, 2009 at 4:17 pm
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Paparazzo Claims ‘Iron Man’ Robbed Him


Photographers watermarked image left/Same photo used on prop newspaper
A photographer from LA is claiming that his above photo was used without permission in the new Iron Man movie. Ronnie Adams, currently employed at JFX paparazzi agency, is suing Paramount and Marvel over copyright infringement for an image featured on the front page of a mock newspaper being read by Robert Downey Jr. (he plays the main character Tony Stark). Adams shot several photos from outside the closed set’s chain-link fence of the Iron Man fully costumed. He then published those watermarked images to IESB.net. Although Paramount couldn’t convince the site to take the image down, it did contact the spineless hosting company who pulled the plug on the entire website for 16 hours. The studio later acknowledged it was wrong and offered compensation for the site’s downtime. In a final fuck you to the photog, “the picture showed up on the front page of a newspaper used as a prop in the Iron Man movie and in a publicity photo” a year later. Still from the movie of the superhero reading the potentially illegal newspaper after the jump.

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By ANIMAL on June 25, 2008 at 4:55 pm
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Marvel x Technics Tees Missing ‘Green Lantern’

Marvel Comics continues to whore out some of its most legendary superheroes, this time partnering up with top ranking turntable maker Technics—talk about brand synergy—to create these collabo t-shirts. With the exception of Captain America, most of the other crime fighters featured in the line have also been duly compromised by really shitty movies, and in the case of the Hulk, hopefully not twice in a row. |ILoveYourShirt via Notcot|

By ANIMAL on April 16, 2008 at 6:24 pm
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