# Disney Acquires Marvel **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 31, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350 "2009-08-31T13:59:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350/61 "2009-09-01T21:08:54Z")
“Face it Tigger, you just hit the jackpot.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350/62 "2009-09-01T21:10:56Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > This article is very informative. Also, the picture attached will scar the mind of people in direct proportion to how big a Marvel Zombie they are. That’s kind of disturbing even if you’re not a huge Marvel fan. Funny, though. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350/63 "2009-09-01T22:13:13Z")
This just in: the new Avengers movie will have a 4 minute song-and-dance routine, with talking chipmunks. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350/64 "2009-09-01T22:42:08Z")
I figured Marvel would need a parent company sooner or later and even predicted it here months ago, but I thought it would be Fox. It’s good that _somebody_ with deep pockets bought them. Marvel had a brush with bankruptcy in 1996 and though they’re steadier now, I have to figure their revenues from comic-book sales are tenuous compared to what they can get off of merchandising their characters into toys, TV shows and movies. At least now Marvel could afford to have a few lean years in publishing here and there and Disney will be okay with it as long as they _keep_ publishing (and thus maintaining their legal claim to) their various character trademarks, with management and protection of such trademarks being a Disney speciality. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350/65 "2009-09-01T22:43:37Z")
> [@B.Serum](#): > > “Face it Tigger, you just hit the jackpot.” The cartoon made me laugh a good ten seconds, there. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350/66 "2009-09-01T22:47:02Z")
I think [this](http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-disneymarvel-mashups_31.html) is the future of Marvel. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350/67 "2009-09-02T00:52:11Z")
Can the Spider-man/Dumbo crossover be far behind? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350/68 "2009-09-02T05:04:11Z")
> [@rolandgunslinger](#): > > I think [this](http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-disneymarvel-mashups_31.html) is the future of Marvel. In one day, two different people independently came up with the idea of a Goofy/Thor amalgam, or is there another connection I’m missing? ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350/69 "2009-09-02T07:00:41Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > This just in: the new Avengers movie will have a 4 minute song-and-dance routine, with talking chipmunks. No! No more god-damn [Squirrel Girl](http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Doreen_Green_(Earth-616))! ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350/70 "2009-09-02T07:55:06Z")
I think sanitizing/Disneyizing Marvel kind of defeats the purpose of buying Marvel in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350/71 "2009-09-02T16:17:16Z")
And [Penny Arcade](http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/9/2/) has added their take. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350/72 "2009-09-02T16:28:13Z")
> [@rolandgunslinger](#): > > I think [this](http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-disneymarvel-mashups_31.html) is the future of Marvel. Thanks. I was hoping that someone was collecting the crossover commentary comics. [This one](http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/NateBeelerToons/When-Superhero-Mutants-Go-Disney-56425677.html) is my favorite so far. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350/73 "2009-09-02T17:18:49Z")
Considering that Hugh Jackman has been doing a lot of musical work, I don’t see that as being too much of a stretch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-marvel/508350.md?page=3)