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In The Late 1980s, Financier Ronald Perelman, Worth Billions And Riding High After His Hostile Takeover Of The Cosmetics Firm Revlon, Bought Marvel Entertainment - Legendary Creator Of Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Spider-man, The X-men, And Other Superheroes - And He Had Big Plans. He Not Only Began Churning Out More Comic Books, He Also Acquired Sports Cards And Other Subsidiaries, Impressing Wall Street So Much That After He Took The Company Public, Marvel's Market Value Ballooned To Over $3 Billion. Perelman Took Advantage Of The Company's Inflated Valuation By Selling Junk Bonds, And Personally Pocketing Nearly $500 Million. Meanwhile, Marvel's Bank Debt Rose To More Than $600 Million. And Then Came The Collapse Of The Comic-book And Trading-card Markets. Enter Rival Corporate Raider Carl Icahn, Who Sank A Fortune Into Marvel's Bonds In An Effort To Wrest Away Control Of Marvel - And To Beat Perelman At His Own Game.^ As The Competing Tycoons Went Head-to-head, Ike Perlmutter And Avi Arad, Two Entrepreneurs Who Ran Toy Biz, A Company That Depended On Marvel Superheroes, Realized That Their Fate Hung In The Balance. They Soon Put In Motion Plans To Take Control Themselv

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Author

Dan Raviv, 1954-

Publisher

New York: Broadway Books

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780767908306

Category

history

Subjects

Economics, Fiction, Social Science

Rating

3.51 / 5 (118 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14