Comments on: Disney, Marvel and Boom!

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By: silvanthalas

silvanthalas — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:35:01 +0000

Well, we know that comics themselves aren’t that profitable compared to movies, etc, so I doubt that Disney is even concerned about whether Marvel is publishing Disney comics. Marvel probably doesn’t care either, as they may not want to have to put resources toward Disney-related comics.

By: Paul Nolan

Paul Nolan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:40:40 +0000

@Darth_Board
“why license your characters to a smaller, third party publisher when you can have them published by your own in-house publisher–who also happens to be the largest publisher in the industry?”

well, because Booom!’s Newsstand deal is better is the obvious answer.

By: Tony Nichols

Tony Nichols — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:16:30 +0000

It is conceivable, however, that Disney makes more pure profit from the licensing fees than it could make selling the same material through Marvel, with its (undoubtedly) higher overhead.

By: Darth_Board

Darth_Board — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:14:29 +0000

I think the Disney/Marvel deal means Marvel publishing Disney comics is an inevitability. I mean, if you’re Disney, why license your characters to a smaller, third party publisher when you can have them published by your own in-house publisher–who also happens to be the largest publisher in the industry? Marvel-produced books would be cheaper and probably better marketed, as well. Seems much more profitable overall than the royalties they would get from Boom!

That being said, the Boom! deal probably has a couple of years left to it before it runs out, and I kinda doubt Disney would rush to buy out the contract just to get comics made in-house more quickly, so it will probably be awhile before anything changes. But yeah, I think Boom!/Disney’s days are numbered.

By: Owen

Owen — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:27:37 +0000

I hope so! It’d be a real shame to move all of the properties yet again when Boom is still finding their footing. Plus I’m still waiting on a Don Rosa’s Scrooge omnibus!