According to the
New York Times, Disney has made a bid to purchase Marvel Comics for $4 billion.
Walt Disney Company said Monday it has agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment, the storied comic book company that owns the rights to such popular characters as Spider-Man and and the Fantastic Four, in a cash and stock deal it valued at $4 billion. The deal comes more than 10 years after Marvel was at the center of a bruising and highly public takeover battle between two feisty financiers.
Shareholders at Marvel will need to approve the transaction, which boards of directors at both companies have already approved.
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Posted by: Zuke in Television
A few months ago, my wife and I were walking through a store that specializes in second hand kids stuff. Our boys had grown past a certain point, and it didn’t make much sense in keeping many of the things they wouldn’t use again. While walking down one of the store’s aisles, I saw something from my own childhood: The Illustrated Dinosaur Encyclopedia. Though entirely out of date now (thanks to recent discoveries and whatnot), it was in perfect condition and only $2, so we got it for the boys.
My own son is still a little young to really get into it, but he enjoys looking at the pictures nonetheless. My stepson, however, is two years older than him and gets a kick out of it. He and I will sit on the couch and he’ll turn to a page and ask me to read it to him. Thanks to how it’s laid out, he can immediately see (thanks to some special graphics and charts on every page) how large the dinosaur is compared to a human, if they lived REALLY REALLY long ago, pretty long ago, sort of long ago, or just not so long ago (my terminology), and if they ate plants or meat.
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