Chapter 1012 The Value of Marvel's IP!

This private manor is very big.

Yang Ming came out of the study, while Ah Zhu, Zhong Chuhong and Guan Jiahui were still outside.

It was the first time for the three girls to come to New York, and the feeling was different from what they imagined.

New York is the most prosperous city in the United States, and it is also the world's largest financial center. Wall Street in New York is famous all over the world. And this is a private manor near Huntington, a wealthy area in Long Island, New York.

Here, the three girls did not feel it, but felt that it was like a small town in Europe and America.

Yang Ming walked around the private manor, and the three girls were outside.

New York time.

18:00 in the evening.

Yuan Tianfan left first.

Alina, Park Jinhui, He Chaoxuan, and Lin Xiuzhi were still here.

Yang Ming finished dinner with them.

As night fell, the temperature in New York dropped to about 10 degrees Celsius, and the wind blew a little cold.

At this time, Future Capital's headquarters is in Silicon Valley, and there is also a Future Capital branch in New York. Now Yuan Tianfan is going to the Future Capital branch in New York.

When Yang Ming was in the study, Alina, He Chaoxun, Lin Xiuzhi, and Park Jinhui were beside him.

"Mr. Yang, why do we want to acquire Marvel Comics?" Park Jinhui asked.

"Because of IP."

IP?

At this time, Park Jinhui and others naturally had no concept of IP.

Yang Ming knew that the sales of Marvel Comics were really not too high, and they were not even as popular as the most popular comics in Japan.

However, the character IPs in Marvel Comics are very valuable.

Like the IPs in it, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Deadpool, Black Widow, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, Punisher, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Shang-Chi, Ghost Rider, Blade, Star-Lord and other superheroes, as well as superhero teams such as the Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, Illuminati, Inhumans, Eternals, and Midnight Sons.

Previously, except for "Captain of the United States" in the 1940s, other comics and cartoons have not been adapted into movies, which means.

Historically, after these Marvel comics were adapted, they were actually very successful, with hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in box office.

Some even filmed a series every year because they were very profitable.

Park Jinhui didn't understand, and Alina and others didn't know even more.

At this time, many people in the United States probably couldn't see where Marvel was really valuable.

22:30 in the evening.

Yang Ming was still in the study, and the others went to rest.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

Yang Ming opened the door and found that it was Yuan Tianfan.

"Tianfan, have you eaten?"

"Boss, I've eaten outside. I just returned to the New York branch of Future Capital and quickly asked someone to investigate the information about Marvel and even DC Comics. Now it's all here."

At this time, we haven't entered the Internet age yet.

Many information can only be found through newspapers and even personal investigations.

Yuan Tianfan went to the New York branch of Future Capital and asked someone to investigate the information of Marvel Comics, including the founder Martin Goodman's family and the main creator Stan Lee. Unexpectedly, they really found out.

Now a large stack of information has been brought back, all in English.

Yang Ming took it and read it.

Martin Goodman, the founder of Marvel, was born in 1908 and was a former immigrant from Goose Country.

At this time, the founder of Marvel was 77 years old. Many things in Marvel were basically managed by his children and Stan Lee.

Stan Lee, whose original name was Stanley Martin Lieber, was born in a small apartment in New York on December 28, 1922. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Romania.

In 1939, 16-year-old Stan Lee graduated from high school. With the introduction of his uncle, Stan Lee met Martin Goodman, the publisher of popular magazines and comic books at the time.

Goodman agreed to let Stanley work as an assistant at his Timely Comics Company, with a weekly salary of $8. Timely is the predecessor of Marvel Comics.

In 1972, Stan Lee became the publisher and chairman of Marvel Comics, and gradually withdrew from specific creation.

In other words, Marvel Comics was first established in 1939, and Stan Lee joined this comic company that year.

Among them, the growth and success of Marvel Comics, in addition to the founder Martin Goodman, is inseparable from Stan Lee.

During.

Marvel Comics and DC Comics are in fierce competition.

Among them, in the 1950s and 1960s, American comics suffered the greatest challenge, and the theory that comics are harmful began to prevail. 1 country held a hearing specifically for comic publishing.

Comic companies had to set limits on themselves, and at the same time, a movement against comics was launched in society.

Publishing houses closed one after another, and within a year, the sales of comic books fell by 75%.

Goodman, the founder of Marvel, could not bear the losses and closed the company called Atlas at the time.

Although its comics were still being published, only a small office was left, and all distribution channels were lost. It had to borrow the channels of its competitor DC Comics to distribute the few remaining comics.

Marvel is on the verge of collapse, and the comics industry seems to have no future, so much so that Stan Lee, who has struggled for many years in adversity, almost decided to quit the industry and seek another job.

In 1969, DC was acquired by Time Warner Group and is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Marvel Comics has been maintained until now, which is considered to be okay.

However, in history, Marvel still cannot escape being acquired by capital.

At the end of 2009, MARVEL was acquired by Disney for US$4.24 billion and became its subsidiary. In September 2010, MARVEL announced its official Chinese name as "Marvel".

In other words.

European and American comics, especially those in the United States, are actually very different from Japanese comics.

Like Japan.

Historically, Japanese comics were monopolized by the three major Japanese publishers, but now they are monopolized by the two-dimensional company under the Empire Group.

Japanese comics, the most popular comics, are published weekly, with sales of at least several million copies per week.

However, in the United States, the sales of comic magazines such as Marvel or DC are only about 800,000 to 1 million copies, which is much lower than the sales of Japanese comics.

There are many reasons for this.

The main reason is that the stories of Japanese comics are completely different from those of Marvel comics, and the styles are completely different.

Most people in Japan are homebodies and like comics very much.

On the contrary, although the population of the United States is several times larger than that of Japan, they don’t like comics very much.

Historically, Marvel comics are more popular in the European and American markets, and even the global market, after being adapted into movies.

"Tian Fan, we have to take over Marvel Comics. One is to convince the Martin Goodman family, and the other is to convince Mr. Stan Lee."

At this time, Stan Lee is not only the soul of Marvel Comics, but also the publisher and chairman. However, he has rarely created, and is mainly responsible for managing the company.

Yang Ming knows that Stan Lee’s biggest wish now is to adapt Marvel Comics into Hollywood movies.

However, for Marvel Comics, it is still very difficult to adapt it into a movie.

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