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Geekstorians: The Fire Sale Blueprint | Marvel Bankruptcy, Iron Man and the Birth of the MCU
Season 2 of Geekstorians continues with the corporate disaster that accidentally redrew modern pop culture.
In ‘The Fire Sale Blueprint’, Dave looks at how Marvel’s bankruptcy in the 1990s led to one of the strangest and most important chain reactions in film history. As the company collapsed under debt, many of its biggest characters were licensed or sold off in deals that looked sensible at the time and faintly insane in hindsight.
Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four and others ended up in other studios’ hands. What Marvel was left with looked, at the time, like the second-string cupboard…
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