[Music]
my turn
true believers be prepared to superpower
your knowledge of the comics industry
welcome to watchmojo.com down the five
most illuminating things you probably
never knew about the publishing house
that built the Avengers
these aren’t facts about the feats of
your favorite heroes but specifically
about Marvel as a company and all the
uncanny ears they’ve spent churning out
incredible comics when I was at Marvel
our whole place was about this big
number 5 Marvel has some random
crossovers yeah we all want to know
who’d win an award between the Justice
League and the x-men but I think what we
all really want to know is what does
Aunt May’s cooking taste like well chefs
at the Hong Kong restaurant vow
innovation teamed up with Marvel for a
superhero inspired menu in November 2015
fans of Black Widow enjoyed bone marrow
fritters with beluga caviar chased with
a shot of vodka Peter Parker inspired a
delicious steamed foie gras with spider
crab if for some reason you’d rather
drive like a hero than eat like one
kiyah recently unveiled their new x-men
inspired Sportage unfortunately even
though it’s painted to mimic the
appearance of the shape-shifting
mystique the Kia does not transform into
a better car oh snap number four Stanley
media versus Marvel you know I guess one
person can make it
nuff said the iconic comic creator is
synonymous with Marvel but that hasn’t
stopped his former company from trying
to sue marvel over merchandising and
movie rights Stan Lee Media which was an
internet-based entertainment portal that
formed in 1998 but that Stan Lee later
abandoned took on Disney in court for a
whopping 5.5 billion dollars they’ve
tried more than once to claim that Stan
Lee actually assigned the rights to all
of his characters to them but the case
was dismissed pretty quickly Jack Kirby
isn’t the king of comics Jack Kirby did
everything Jack Kirby co-creator of many
Marvel characters also tried to gain
back control of his assets but
ultimately the judge ruled that only
Marvel owns Marvel we’re on number three
Marvel is back rounding Fox’s properties
I have a paycheck due this week or a
month later yet again
Marvel was facing dire straits in 1996
after filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy
and toy company executive avi arad led
the charge to save Marvel by selling the
film rights to some properties while
acquiring others in the end 20th Century
Fox came away with the rights to x-men
and Fantastic Four and now it seems that
Marvel is slowly pushing those
characters into the background as if to
stick it to Fox they’ve dropped some
major mutant characters from posters and
merchandise canceled the Fantastic Four
comic franchise and their new x-men
comics seem dead set on keeping mutants
out of the spotlight where are the
mutants
Marvel denies any such thing but it may
be a Power Move to lower the value of
the properties so that they can
reacquire them from 20th century if only
it was as easy as waving your hand and
whispering no more Fox number 2 Marvel
was the first major publisher to ditch
the comics code ah comics depicting
monsters crime and scantily clad women
to poison the minds of young readers
everywhere thank goodness dr. Fred
wertham a psychologist wrote seduction
of the innocent in 1954 to warn parents
about the corrupting influence of comic
books
the alarmist polemic eventually led the
comic industry to voluntarily censor
themselves under the comics code
Authority Marvel was the first major
publisher to drop the seal altogether in
2001 they debuted their r-rated max
imprint shortly after even though
Stanley didn’t seem to approve of the
news stories Marvel may have been the
first major publisher to ditch the code
but all others have followed suit since
and the code is now defunct number one
Marvel went to court to prove mutants
are not human is Wolverine human what
about beast since custom tariffs were
higher on dolls depicting humans than on
toys depicted monsters or animals Marvel
subsidiary toy biz Inc did what any
business would do for their bottom line
they went to court to argue that
characters like Fantastic Four
spider-man and most notably the x-men
did not represent humans but are in fact
monsters and so deserves a tax cut
losers
after years of literature defending
mutant rights you gotta wonder where
magneto is when you need him
we are the ones who’ll inherit this man
in the end a judge agreed that every
single one of them were monsters you
want society to accept you but you can’t
even accept yourself so what do you
think are mutants monsters I guess so
and is Marvel trying to lower the value
of its title so that they can buy them
back no doubt about it
for more superpower top 10s and
seductive top fives be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com good job guys
let’s just not come in tomorrow
[Music]
my turn
true believers be prepared to superpower
your knowledge of the comics industry
welcome to watchmojo.com down the five
most illuminating things you probably
never knew about the publishing house
that built the Avengers
these aren’t facts about the feats of
your favorite heroes but specifically
about Marvel as a company and all the
uncanny ears they’ve spent churning out
incredible comics when I was at Marvel
our whole place was about this big
number 5 Marvel has some random
crossovers yeah we all want to know
who’d win an award between the Justice
League and the x-men but I think what we
all really want to know is what does
Aunt May’s cooking taste like well chefs
at the Hong Kong restaurant vow
innovation teamed up with Marvel for a
superhero inspired menu in November 2015
fans of Black Widow enjoyed bone marrow
fritters with beluga caviar chased with
a shot of vodka Peter Parker inspired a
delicious steamed foie gras with spider
crab if for some reason you’d rather
drive like a hero than eat like one
kiyah recently unveiled their new x-men
inspired Sportage unfortunately even
though it’s painted to mimic the
appearance of the shape-shifting
mystique the Kia does not transform into
a better car oh snap number four Stanley
media versus Marvel you know I guess one
person can make it
nuff said the iconic comic creator is
synonymous with Marvel but that hasn’t
stopped his former company from trying
to sue marvel over merchandising and
movie rights Stan Lee Media which was an
internet-based entertainment portal that
formed in 1998 but that Stan Lee later
abandoned took on Disney in court for a
whopping 5.5 billion dollars they’ve
tried more than once to claim that Stan
Lee actually assigned the rights to all
of his characters to them but the case
was dismissed pretty quickly Jack Kirby
isn’t the king of comics Jack Kirby did
everything Jack Kirby co-creator of many
Marvel characters also tried to gain
back control of his assets but
ultimately the judge ruled that only
Marvel owns Marvel we’re on number three
Marvel is back rounding Fox’s properties
I have a paycheck due this week or a
month later yet again
Marvel was facing dire straits in 1996
after filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy
and toy company executive avi arad led
the charge to save Marvel by selling the
film rights to some properties while
acquiring others in the end 20th Century
Fox came away with the rights to x-men
and Fantastic Four and now it seems that
Marvel is slowly pushing those
characters into the background as if to
stick it to Fox they’ve dropped some
major mutant characters from posters and
merchandise canceled the Fantastic Four
comic franchise and their new x-men
comics seem dead set on keeping mutants
out of the spotlight where are the
mutants
Marvel denies any such thing but it may
be a Power Move to lower the value of
the properties so that they can
reacquire them from 20th century if only
it was as easy as waving your hand and
whispering no more Fox number 2 Marvel
was the first major publisher to ditch
the comics code ah comics depicting
monsters crime and scantily clad women
to poison the minds of young readers
everywhere thank goodness dr. Fred
wertham a psychologist wrote seduction
of the innocent in 1954 to warn parents
about the corrupting influence of comic
books
the alarmist polemic eventually led the
comic industry to voluntarily censor
themselves under the comics code
Authority Marvel was the first major
publisher to drop the seal altogether in
2001 they debuted their r-rated max
imprint shortly after even though
Stanley didn’t seem to approve of the
news stories Marvel may have been the
first major publisher to ditch the code
but all others have followed suit since
and the code is now defunct number one
Marvel went to court to prove mutants
are not human is Wolverine human what
about beast since custom tariffs were
higher on dolls depicting humans than on
toys depicted monsters or animals Marvel
subsidiary toy biz Inc did what any
business would do for their bottom line
they went to court to argue that
characters like Fantastic Four
spider-man and most notably the x-men
did not represent humans but are in fact
monsters and so deserves a tax cut
losers
after years of literature defending
mutant rights you gotta wonder where
magneto is when you need him
we are the ones who’ll inherit this man
in the end a judge agreed that every
single one of them were monsters you
want society to accept you but you can’t
even accept yourself so what do you
think are mutants monsters I guess so
and is Marvel trying to lower the value
of its title so that they can buy them
back no doubt about it
for more superpower top 10s and
seductive top fives be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com good job guys
let’s just not come in tomorrow
[Music]
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