Ronald Perelman didn't disappoint; primarily, this type of iation was seen as a joint development by people who always spuhing to their advantage. Nationality, in, and pany didn't matter—even if the money wasn't theirs, gaining something always drove people's as. The more they gaihe more satisfied they felt.

  -Your words align well with our is; we could create a great animated series. My iment has helped offset expenses. Moreover, products reted to the X-Men have started geing revenue. If we colborate again, our animated el, like Marvel, could be, - Billy remarked, pying along with the highlighted ideas of cooperation. However, he khey would dedicate all their work potential to Saban.

  "I don't think it's healthy for Marvel to i in animation. It's a business with few bes. As an expanding pany, we should seek other profits," Ronald Perelman ented, stig to his forced viewpoint, one he wao push above all else.

  -I uimated them; perhaps he doesn't care about produg series. He probably won't support any television show, and it's just a ce, or if someone offers moo motivate him, - Billy thought.

  -In that case, I hope everything unfolds as Marvel has projected for the ing years, - Billy replied.

  -It's business, and we all abide by the goodwill of the pany. I 't risk my pany for a likely cause, - Ronald said, slower, more deliberately. - However, I believe I know what this is about—you want to iate a deal with Marvel. -

  -Not for now. I have things to sider, but opinions may ge in the ing months, - Billy ented.

  Ronald Perelman merely nodded, giving it no more than a nod of importance, plotting to use his small animation studio, supported by Saban, the television mae branch.

  -I heard that you haven't just succeeded in the world of animated series; video games are an iing market to enter, and you are a status symbol for the market, especially with your test video game, - Ronald Perelman respotentively, knowing that a much closer involvement with video games would satisfy agreements. This el could even profit from selling a video game. A game is easily more profitable thaV shows. Ameris have started buying video games in droves. If only he could use supanies for Marvel.

  -You're right, video games are three times as profitable, but their stru is costly. Our projects are expensive, and good video game teams aren't what we expected. Sometimes it's better to use third-party panies for certain games and share is, - Billy ented.

  -I just need you to spend more mohan you already have on hand, - Billy thought.

  -Oher hand, our maiing is different... about the trading card market you've insisted on so much. Collectible special cards of the different animated Marvel characters, - Ronald Perelman said.

  -Well, though it's an excuse to see you—to create different animated TV series, something I find endearing—I have a refiaste for television series. But the card market is fruitful. In my mistake, I decided to veo sports leagues. To my error, I found a string of stoppages. I find that the athlete system isn't as perfect as I initially thought. That's why I want to colborate, so together with some artists, we create some designs, - Ronald Perelman ented.

  -I would do it; I have no obje t with Marvel animators. We have a very good retionship. However, the tracts must have some creative freedom. For the cards to be collectible, they must be based on something that makes them valuable, - Billy ented.

  -We will proceed with the procedures with the specialists. -refuse

  A versation that left a sour taste; many of the mistakes they both made were to avoid reading the room. On one hand, if Billy pressed more, he would vince Ronald to produce televisirams, while Ronald fell into Billy's act, whily wanted Ronald to remain engrossed in his aggressive expansion of Marvel, acquiring and making money.

  Those weren't all the problems the pany was fag; since 1999, it had received multiple cht infri wsuits from Avid Arad and Ike Permulker. After the profits made during the ematic era, these demands progressed. Stan Lee himself filed thousands of wsuits over every character he produced. Subsequently, there were even wsuits from Marvel for cht registration by Marvel, gaps in tracts, and foreseen errors in previous years due to x tract terms.

  Avi Arad is now just a Marvel rights hunter, lio toy pahe presidents and CEOs ended up being the pany hunters. Michael Eisner himself has bought shares of Disney in his he stakes must be ughable, in a way that only be called untrolble.

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  Ronald Perelman's arrival only brought political chaos to the pany and called for many iors to join hands in their activities. Not only the ambition to be part of Marvel but also the ambition of some to use the Marvel market for their be. The goose that ys the golden eggs, only the different creation lines are in stant struggle, deg that cht is part of it. Both Stan Lee's heirs and reat artists have bought the cht of supanies. If you want to avoid an intrinsic struggle, you must at least i 30 million, just in Stan Lee. For his possible cht, Jack Kirby is on the list, like many other creators who op asking for mhts, no matter the character.

  -We're drowning. Marvel is losing what we were made for. It's that the stock price was 35 in 1980. Now, the value of ics is overrated, and we make less money per creation, - Stan Lee disagreed with the creation of video games.

  -It's detestable. For now, I have the cht for X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Iron Man. You work for me. However, yhts over ics, and merdising, prevent me from attributi in that sector. I 't help you. I tried to talk to Ronald Perelman about creating an animated series together with Marvel. His reje is likely because he prefers another pany that doesn't i as much money, - Billy ented.

  -A very well-executed series. I quite liked how you made an adaptable script of all the TV series and highlighted the important factors of eae, - Stan Lee ented.

  -Nothing like you old guys, although somewhat servative, I still give credit to your work, - Billy ented.

  Billy's entry rompted by the artists who knew well that with Billy, they would gain the creative freedom they were seeking. It was a brief indication on many occasions; that artists filed wsuits when they weren't properly pensated or when their family took an i and filed a wsuit promptly.

  -I'm unsatisfied, but what more I do? How could I be capable of leaving my pany, ohat has been nurturing me for a long time? The pany is dear to me; I just want to go back to the '60s whehing was simpler, - Stan Lee ented.

  -Old man, I know what you've been trying to do i years. I have the moo buy Marvel, but I don't have the moo fight against them, - Billy replied to Stan Lee's i. After several versations, he, along with Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Steve E... all of them will join to buy, however, among them, they do not gather more than 5 million, and for now, they allow the purchase of Marvel shares.

  -It is, but I hope one of the new creators tinue acy, - Stan Lee ented, still curious. - The shares belong to a finanpany willing to sell us the shares. They have a 6.7% stake, a a price of 8.9 million. Do you have the money? - Stan Lee asked.

  -I have it, old man. I'll buy the shares and keep buying shares. I'll fight for Marvel and create an eic system. I 't do the same system as Jim Lee; it's not profitable. I may be in favor of increasing revenues, but don't think so highly of me, - Billy ented.

  -I'm aware that Jim Lee wasn't grateful. He did as he pleased, to the extent that he received reprimands from some people. He just wao start his pany, and we're grateful. We'll reach a better agreement. The puy doesn't know the mistakes he made; ohe money runs out, he'll likely form a union with Image ics, - Stan Lee ented.

  -If you keep introdug me to people, I buy more shares. It would be iing, - Billy ented.

  -You oend to 10%. I mentiohat Ronald Perelman made the purchase of the shares on his own after the bubble burst, but due to his bad as, he has been pnning a merger with Toy Bizt. His main idea is to share the load; this pany is part of a retionship agreement with Ronald Perelman. We have just under 2%, you have 2%, and now acquiring 6.77%, the profits are better than expected, - Stan Lee ented.

  -You're right. However, Toy Bitz has the same desire to buy Marvel, and Avi Arad has the same desire to buy, - Billy ented.

  -You mentiohat it would fall; they will fall, and through their fall, you will iate with the pany. Let's separate from Toy Bitz, and we will dedicate ourselves to being Marvel, as it always should have been. Your proposal to be a single Marvel entity is magnifit, - Stan Lee ented.

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