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Offline John Asperger

Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« on: August 31, 2009, 09:56:50 PM »
---to a DC-Archie merger ( perhaps even with Dark Horse thrown in ) , mebbe' , as Time-Warner decides " get them before the competition gets them " ?
  REALLY low on time , I'm telegraphing to the max , SORRY , I'm saving my " Lucky 100dredth " post for...
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Offline archieandme

Re: Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2009, 10:28:36 PM »
The first thing I thought about when I saw that Disney acquired Marvel was what would happen if Disney acquired Archie.  The characters would probably get a huge boost in promotion.

Of course, Archie Comics is privately owned.  There was a time when they were publicly traded in the 1970's but they went private again due to all the problems that go with being a publicly traded company.

Still, I would love to see Archie and the gang become more widely popular.
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Re: Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2009, 12:06:43 AM »
Quote from: archieandme on August 31, 2009, 10:28:36 PM
There was a time when they were publicly traded in the 1970's but they went private again due to all the problems that go with being a publicly traded company.

Would you care to expand on this? I don't know much about the period in question.
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Offline honeybee

Re: Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2009, 12:12:51 AM »
The thing is, Marvel is doing fine without Disney. But I guess they want to be in same successful level with The Dark Knight, which is DC and owned by WB. The question is, would Marvel movies be mild now, 'cause Disney has a certain PG13 rule about everything.

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The characters would probably get a huge boost in promotion.

This I agree. Not to mention a great huge boost in international sales. Eventhough Archies is well known abroad USA, but it mostly consists sales of comics -- not other things like cartoons and music. Imagine Disney with its empire can bring Archie into the stratosphere. It will introduce new market also.

But like I said before in other threads, Archie is always gonna stuck in second gear with everything. They don't want to have interracial relationship story any time soon, which Disney has no problem with that. Archie will always be in G rated rule.
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Offline Banshee

Re: Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2009, 06:00:34 AM »
Now Marvel would probably be sanitized for the precious kids. ::)

Not that I really care; I'm more of a DC fan myself.;D
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Offline AyaBlue

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« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2009, 11:50:13 PM »
I wonder what changes the theme parks down here are going to have to deal with. Islands of Adventure has an entire area devoted to Marvel superheroes!
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Offline Gregg

Re: Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2009, 08:43:21 AM »
I think Disney wants to tap into Marvel's movie profits. Just an opinion...

On the other hand, all of us fans are waiting with bated breath for the inevitable Howard the Duck /Donald Duck crossover! :P

Having a hard time imagining the Punisher/ Mickey Mouse crossover though, or the Phantom Blot/Venom crossover!:)

Gregg
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Offline Buzz

Re: Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2009, 11:50:52 AM »
Disney doesn't have any strong young-tween-teen boy properties.  marvel provides that for them.
 
Most of marvel's revenue comes from licensing to toys, videogames, movies, and TV.  Comics make very, very little for them.  based on Disney's past history, I expect marvel comics as a creative entity to be shut down and for the Marvel characters to be parceled out to various comic book/graphic novel publishers in 10-15 years.
 
On the plus side, Howard the Duck can finally meet Donald.
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Offline Oldiesmann

Re: Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2009, 01:27:55 AM »
I'm not real sure what Disney's goal was with this, but the biggest one I can think of is Disney attempting to restart its own comic book line. Carrying Marvel comics is pretty much a no-brainer for comic shops. In addition, Marvel has plenty of experience printing and publishing comics. By pushing Disney comics out through Marvel, Disney saves a ton of money by not having to do it themselves or license it to another company (much like how WB used DC to publish Looney Tunes comic books years ago).

It does seem a bit odd that Disney would buy Marvel, since Marvel would generally attract a different audience than most Disney things are aimed at, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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Offline honeybee

Re: Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2009, 04:06:25 AM »
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but the biggest one I can think of is Disney attempting to restart its own comic book line.

Disney comics are very popular and big in Europe and Asia. I know I always buy Donald Duck comics every Tuesday. So I don't know why they need to restart it again, unless it's for USA market. Because internationally, they're doing fine -- like Billion dollars profit for Disney comic line alone. And I thought Disney comic is working together with Dark Horse?
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Offline Banshee

Re: Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2009, 11:56:52 PM »
Quote from: Gregg on September 08, 2009, 08:43:21 AM

On the other hand, all of us fans are waiting with bated breath for the inevitable Howard the Duck /Donald Duck crossover! :P

Gregg

Seeing it in late 1980s, Howard The Duck was a very STRANGE movie with some VERY creepy parts, too. And ironically, it was directed by GEORGE LUCAS! :o
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Offline honeybee

Re: Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2009, 04:29:05 AM »
check this out. this would happen with disney/marvel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyYb_r4cZHE :p
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Offline Buzz

Re: Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2009, 06:25:56 PM »
Quote from: Brunette on September 10, 2009, 11:56:52 PM
Quote from: Gregg on September 08, 2009, 08:43:21 AM

On the other hand, all of us fans are waiting with bated breath for the inevitable Howard the Duck /Donald Duck crossover! :P

Gregg

Seeing it in late 1980s, Howard The Duck was a very STRANGE movie with some VERY creepy parts, too. And ironically, it was directed by GEORGE LUCAS! :o
Not to get too nitpicky, but Lucas was only the executive producer; the director was Willard Huyck.
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Offline John Asperger

Re: Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2009, 08:19:16 PM »
...Several comments:
  In the US , Disney had , just before the Marvel purchase was announced , announced that Boom! would be taking over the " ducks & mice " " traditional " Disney characters in comicbooks , and I would assume that that contract will continue as signed .
  I don't have space to go into it at length here , Honeybee , but it is true that Disney comic books have not done very well in the U. S. in recent years ( I think there's reasons for that , but , not now...) , and , over the last 20-or-so years, I think there have been something like 4 - or 5 - different trys by companies to make the " D&M " characters sell .
  They keep not succeeding , apparently .
  Here's one oddity - A number of years back , Howard the Duck was sued by Disney as " looking too similar to Donald " , and Marvel had to change Howard from his classic look !
  I wonder if they'll be able to bring that back now ?
  And , there's Oswald the Rabbit ;)...........
   
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Re: Disney-Marvel merger leading ---
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2011, 02:31:05 PM »
Quote from: John Asperger on September 21, 2009, 08:19:16 PM
...Several comments:
  In the US , Disney had , just before the Marvel purchase was announced , announced that Boom! would be taking over the " ducks & mice " " traditional " Disney characters in comicbooks , and I would assume that that contract will continue as signed .
  I don't have space to go into it at length here , Honeybee , but it is true that Disney comic books have not done very well in the U. S. in recent years ( I think there's reasons for that , but , not now...) , and , over the last 20-or-so years, I think there have been something like 4 - or 5 - different trys by companies to make the " D&M " characters sell .
  They keep not succeeding , apparently .
  Here's one oddity - A number of years back , Howard the Duck was sued by Disney as " looking too similar to Donald " , and Marvel had to change Howard from his classic look !
  I wonder if they'll be able to bring that back now ?
  And , there's Oswald the Rabbit ;)...........
 

It's insane that Howard the Duck was sued over that.  This stuff just makes me scratch my head.  I mean couldn't they argue Howard is a parody of the Donald Duck style?  It's just weird how you can buy Family Guy on DVD with plenty of trade-marked charactered appearing as is, but something like this is going too far.  lol

And Disney owns Miramax I think that does adult films.  Hopefully, they can keep a hands off approach to Marvel since trying to kidify it at this point wouldn't be a good idea since their readership is made up of mostly adults now.
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