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"Boss, this is a list of all the existing benign assets of Marvel!" After officially signing the contract with Pereman and obtaining 60% of Marvel's equity, Harry Potter also obtained a detailed asset registration form of Marvel for the first time and then sent this registration form to Boss Jia.
On this registration form, the first thing that was actually Marvel's comic company, studio, cartoonist and so on. However, Boss Jia didn't care about these at all. He only cared about how many Superhero copyrights Marvel still had in their hands.
As a result, when he saw the remaining Superhero copyrights of Marvel, Boss Jia's heart sank. He felt that he had lost at least half of his 22 million USD.
Pereman was too ruthless. He had only controlled Marvel for four years and he had already sold more than 50% of Marvel's top Superhero copyrights.
In the future, everyone was more familiar with several main characters of the Avengers, such as Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, Winter Soldier, Ant-Man, Spiderman, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Guardian of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel, and finally Thanos and so on.
In addition to the classic characters other than the Avengers, there were also the Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Wolverine, the X-Men series, Deadpool, and so on. These were basically sold out.
Among them, Hulk and Namor were sold to Universal Pictures.
All the characters in the X-Men series, the Fantastic Four, and the Skrull series were sold to 20th Century Fox.
Iron Man was sold to Paramount.
Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, and Captain Marvel were sold to Disney.
There were hundreds of different Superheroes whose copyrights had been sold. Although Marvel claimed to have 8,000 Superheroes, in fact, there were only two or three hundred who could fight, and there were only a few dozen who were familiar with them.
If Boss Jia wanted to make the Avengers now, then the Avengers could only have Thor, Black Widow, and Spiderman under the leadership of Captain America. The entire Avengers directly lost half of their forces. How could they fight Thanos? It was simply too horrible to look at.
Fortunately, the copyright of Spiderman was not sold at this time.
In the future, Sony and Marvel fought several lawsuits over the copyright of Spiderman. In the end, both parties decided to work together.
Therefore, Boss Jia had always thought that Spiderman's copyright had been sold. But now, looking at the asset list, Spiderman and all the superheroes in his series were lying steadily in Marvel's assets and had not moved. Boss Jia had a feeling that he had made a fortune.
In fact, the copyright of Spiderman was sold in 1998. At that time, Marvel had just gone bankrupt and was in urgent need of a large sum of money, so they sold the most valuable Spiderman series hero in the hero list at that time to Sony for 7 million US dollars, and it was a permanent sale to Sony. Marvel only retained the comic book copyright.
"Boss, what should we do next? Does the foundation want to directly intervene in the operation of Marvel? "Harry Potter asked obediently behind Boss Jia.
"Interfere? Do you know how to run a comic book company? "Boss Jia glared at Harry Potter and Harry Potter shook his head with a wry smile.
"By the way, what is Stan Lee doing now?" Boss Jia suddenly asked.
"He is still the Editor-in-Chief of Marvel!" Harry Potter thought for a moment and said, "But he has been organizing other editors to demonstrate recently. Boss, should we fire him?"
"Fire him? Why should we fire him? " Boss Jia knocked on Harry Potter's head. "If you fire this guy, who will run Marvel for us? Well, you talk to Stan Lee and give him the position of the company's president. Let him run Marvel well."
"Yes!" Harry Potter nodded and hesitated for a moment. Then he said, "Stan Lee has been saying that he wants to combine comics and movies. He also wants to do some new media integration plan. If he proposes a similar plan, should we cooperate with him?"
"You tell him that the company already has a complete movie linkage plan. He only needs to maintain the daily operation of the comic book company. If there is a loss, the foundation will make up some funds and pay their salaries. That's all!" Boss Jia hesitated for a moment and said.
Before 2000, Marvel had made several attempts to make movies, but they all failed. It was not until 2000 that Sony released the first Spiderman movie, and the result was a complete hit. Then, the United States entered a 20-year era of superhero movies.
In fact, the movies in the United States were somewhat distorted after 1900. Because looking at it, more than half of the blockbuster movies were superhero movies. This was obviously a somewhat distorted market.
However, Boss Jia did not care. Otherwise, why would he buy Marvel?
However, before 2000, it was still very difficult for superhero movies to sell. Therefore, Boss Jia hesitated for a while and decided not to challenge the objective law and historical reality. Although he had already bought Marvel, Marvel would wait until after 2000 to make movies honestly.
After all, only in that era, more efficient computer special effects would appear.
"Yes!" Harry Potter had always been meticulous in carrying out Boss Jia's orders. The next day, he went to Stan Lee and told him that the company intended to appoint him as the president.
At this time, Stan Lee was ready to resign and leave.
In history, after Marvel went bankrupt and restructured in 1998, and then sold Spiderman to Sony for money, Stan Lee completely despaired of Marvel, so he left Marvel and set up his own entertainment company.
Now, Marvel went bankrupt and restructured in 1994, and with the bankruptcy and restructuring, Marvel also began to plan to be delisted and then privatized again. The foundation would fully control 100% of the shares and so on.
Stan Lee felt that he might be targeted by the new boss. After all, he was an old guy who had a great influence in the company, which was really very hateful.
But Stan Lee never thought that the foundation would actually make a decision to appoint him as the president.
"Why do you want me to be the president?" Stan Lee hesitated and then asked.
"Because our board of directors thinks that Marvel must be handed over to someone who really understands Marvel!" Harry Potter said, and this sentence also extinguished half of Stan Lee's thoughts of leaving.
Indeed, there is no one in the world who understands Marvel better than him.
"Then how much power do I have as the president?" Stan Lee asked another key question.
"You are responsible for all the daily operations of Marvel, but you have no right to sell any of the company's assets, and you have no right to buy any assets for the company. At the same time, when making some major decisions involving the company's overall situation, these must be reported to the board of directors before they can be decided!" Harry Potter said.
"Understood!" Stan Lee nodded. These were not powers that a CEO should have. It was enough for him to be able to control the daily operations of Marvel.
"Last question?" Stan Lee looked at Harry Potter, "Will the company still sell my children?"
"What did you say?" Harry Potter froze for a moment. When did he want to sell Stan Lee's children? He didn't have the ability to sell his children.
"Captain America, Spiderman, and so on, all the Superheroes are my children!" Stan Lee said seriously.
"Haha!" Harry Potter couldn't help but laugh, "There is something I forgot to tell you, my dear Mr. President. The company has decided to invest tens of millions of dollars in the future, even hundreds of millions of dollars, to buy back all the Superhero copyrights that Marvel has sold!"
"Really!" Stan Lee's eyes were red. He was going to die in Marvel for the rest of his life.
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