For anyone wondering why we're spending several weeks on comics in a U.S. Culture Industries/Genre class, please note this Sunday's front page Calendar piece on Marvel.
Here's the definitive quote:
... there's the savage marketplace realities of today. Why go into the movie-making biz now? Maisel said the question is the wrong one. "We're not in the movie business, we're in the 'Iron Man' business right now. Marvel owns the intellectual property. We have an Iron Man video game coming, the toys, the comics, we have an animated television show coming, a direct-to-DVD animated Iron Man movie last year. We're going to have an Iron Man ride at an amusement park in Dubai in a few years. We have a different perspective."
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