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Grex Comics Item 54: Marvel going out of business
Entered by richard on Sat Aug 30 12:51:48 UTC 1997:

It looks like the death toll is sounding for Marvel Comics.  Marvel has
been losing tons of money, undergoing numerous ownership and staff
changes, and is now in bankruptcy court with creditors who want to sell
off its assets.  According to yesterdays New York papers, Marvel was
unable to reach agreements with its creditors and the judge said if
nothing happens by Sept. 8 (a week from now), Marvel is to fold and go out
of business.

It looks like Marvel willfold and go out of exsistence, but that its main
characters, Spiderman, Captain America .etc maybe sold to DC comics.

It would be the end of an era.  I mean Spiderman put out by DC?! I wonder
how many longtime Spidey fans would even keep buying it!

17 responses total.

#1 of 17 by pez on Sat Aug 30 14:56:21 1997:

I don't believe it...

#2 of 17 by senna on Sat Aug 30 19:32:07 1997:

I have some trouble believing it myself.

Sell them to Image!  Please!

#3 of 17 by pez on Sat Aug 30 20:35:39 1997:

well.. whether this is true or not..
we can suggest team-ups of Image and Marvel characters..

#4 of 17 by senna on Sat Sep 6 22:39:14 1997:

<Sigh> I've been hoping for more responses to accrue, but I've basically been
ignoring ths one response for a week without anything adding to it.  Ah well.

#5 of 17 by otaking on Mon Sep 8 08:56:21 1997:

I don't read Marvel and barely read DC comics. I like the idea of Marvel
characters going to companies more friendly to creators, even if it's DC.
But I agree with senna, SELL THEM TO IMAGE!

#6 of 17 by pez on Tue Sep 9 00:20:00 1997:

hmm.. how bout instead they just go under the Image imprint.. :)
i *might* be able to live with that.. maybe..

#7 of 17 by senna on Tue Sep 9 02:36:18 1997:

Image's logo is better than Marvel's... and the editorial stupidity will
probably be dropped.

#8 of 17 by pez on Tue Sep 9 19:58:32 1997:

image had a logo..?  oh that's right.. it's an 'i'
marvel's logo is an 'm' with marvel comics written on it..
neither logo does much for me..

#9 of 17 by otaking on Mon Sep 15 08:43:30 1997:

Who cares about logos when the thought that a writer or an artist could have
free reign to change established Marvel characters and breathe new
life into tired old stories.

#10 of 17 by senna on Mon Sep 15 23:25:12 1997:

Just being suitably shallow.

#11 of 17 by pez on Mon Sep 15 23:33:43 1997:

just for fun..
let's all make bids for the Marvel properties they want :P
mine would be:
Sleepwalker
the 2099 universe :P
Sandman
Cloak
the Inhamans..
and.. the Serpent Society
heh.. that'd give me plenty to work with.. :P

#12 of 17 by senna on Wed Sep 17 04:05:06 1997:

I'd bid for Wolverine, but only so I could kill him and bring him back as a
Spawn. That would be cool :)  Then I'd do some major reworking of Punisher
so he's actually be readable.

#13 of 17 by pez on Wed Sep 17 20:40:46 1997:

Punisher is a good character that got overused.. so is Wolverine..

#14 of 17 by senna on Fri Sep 19 20:57:45 1997:

yeah, that's why I'm killing him.  All sorts of stuff you can do there :)

#15 of 17 by pez on Sat Sep 20 05:09:23 1997:

i still want the 2099-i-verse

#16 of 17 by otaking on Sat Sep 20 08:42:12 1997:

I'd buy Blink from the "Age of Apocalypse" storyline and Man-Thing. I'd bid
for Howard the Duck only to put him back into the realm of satire, where he
belongs (NOT Generation X).

#17 of 17 by dbassman on Wed Nov 19 06:49:49 1997:

Thus go the spoils of war......BARF!!!!!

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