I lost my vegetative state, and I became the richest man in the world

Chapter 1010 Marvel's IP Value!
This private estate is huge.

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

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

New York is the most prosperous city in country M, and it is also the largest financial center in the world. Wall Street in New York is even more famous all over the world.And this place belongs to a private estate near Huntington in the rich area of ​​Long Island, New York.

Here, the three women didn't feel it, but felt that it was like a small town in Europe and America.

Yang Ming is here at the private estate, and the three women are outside.

New York time.

18:00 in the evening.

Yuan Tianfan left first.

Alina, Park Jin Hye, He Chaojue, Lin Xiuzhi are still here.

Yang Ming finished dinner with them.

As night fell, the temperature in New York dropped to about 10 degrees Celsius, and it was a bit cool with a gust of wind.

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

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

"Mr. Yang, why did we buy Marvel Comics?" Park Jin Hye asked.

"Because of IP."

IP?

At this time, Park Jinhui and others naturally did not have the concept of IP.

Yang Ming knows that the sales volume of Marvel comics is really not too high, not even comparable to the most popular comics in Toyo.

However, the character IP in Marvel comics is very valuable.

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

Previously, except for "Captain of M Country" filmed in the 40s, other comics and comics were not really adapted into movies, which means.

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

Some even shoot a series every year, just because it is very profitable.

Park Jinhui didn't understand, and Arina and the others didn't even know.

At this time, many people in country M may not be able to see where Marvel's real value lies.

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 have eaten outside. I just returned to the New York branch of Future Capital, and soon people investigated the information about Marvel and even DC Comics. They are all here now."

At this time, the Internet age has not yet entered.

A lot of information can only be found through newspapers and periodicals, or even through personal investigation.

Yuan Tianfan went to the New York branch of Future Capital and asked people to investigate the information of Marvel Comics, including the family of the founder Martin Goodman, as well as the information of the main creator Stan Lee. Clear.

Now there is a large stack of materials, all of which are in English.

Yang Ming took it and looked at it.

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

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

Stan Lee, formerly known as Stanley Martin Lieber, was born in a small apartment in New York on December 1922, 12. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Romania.

In 1939, 16-year-old Stan Lee graduated from high school.Under the introduction of his uncle, Stan Lee met with Martin Goodman, the popular magazine and comic book publisher at that time.

Goodman agreed to let Stanley work as an assistant at his Timely comics company for $8 a week.Timely is the predecessor of Marvel Comics.

In 1972, Stan Lee became the publisher and chairman of Fantastic Comics, and since then he has gradually faded out of specific creations.

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 being inseparable from the founder Martin Goodman, is also inseparable from Stan Lee.

period.

Marvel Comics and DC Comics are very competitive.

Among them, in the 50s and 60s, country M's comics suffered the greatest challenge, and the theory that comics were harmful became popular. In the spring of 1954, country M held a hearing specifically for the publication of comics.

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

Publishing houses closed, and within a year, comic book sales dropped by 75%.

Goodman, the founder of Marvel, couldn't bear the loss and closed the company called Atlas at the time.

Although its comics are still published, there is only a small office left, and it has lost all distribution channels, and has to borrow the channels of rival DC Comics to distribute the few remaining comics.

Marvel was teetering on the brink of collapse, and the comics industry seemed hopeless, so much so that Stan Lee, who had struggled with adversity for many years, almost decided to quit the industry and find another job.

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

Marvel comics have been maintained until now, which is not bad.

However, historically, Marvel still could not escape being acquired by capital.

At the end of 2009, MARVEL was acquired by Disney for US$42.4 billion and became its subsidiary. In September 2010, MARVEL announced that its official Chinese name was "Manwei".

In other words.

For manga in Europe and America, especially in country M, it is actually quite different from Toyo manga.

Like Toyo.

Historically, Toyo Manga was monopolized by the three major Toyo publishers, but now it is monopolized by Two-dimensional, a subsidiary of the Imperial Group.

Dongyang's manga, the most popular manga, is published in a weekly magazine, with at least a few million copies sold every week.

However, in country M, the sales volume of magazines like Marvel or DC comics is about 80 to 100 million copies, which is much lower than that of Toyo comics.

There are big reasons for this.

The main reason is that the stories of Toyo comics and Marvel's comics are completely different in style and so on.

Most people in Toyo are nerds and like manga very much.

On the contrary, although the population of country M is several times larger than that of Dongyang, they don't like comics very much.

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

"Tianfan, we want to take down 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 seldom created, and he mainly manages the company.

Yang Ming knew that Stan Lee's biggest wish now was to adapt Marvel comics into Hollywood movies.

However, as far as Marvel comics are concerned, it is still very difficult to adapt them into movies.

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