Disney to buy comic giant Marvel
$4 billion deal called 'a treasure trove of content'
Posted: September 1, 2009 at 5:32 a.m.
Comic-book writer Stan Lee stands beside a depiction of Spider-Man, a character he and artist Steve Ditko created in 1962, in the Marvel Super Heroes Science Exhibition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles in this file photo.
The Walt Disney Co. is buying Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing such characters as Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and WALL-E.
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Business, Pages 23, 24 on 09/01/2009
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