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How Disney Found Its Way Back to Creative Success

Harvard Business Review

At the time, there was general skepticism that Disney over-paid for Marvel since three of its leading superheroes have already been licensed out — Spiderman (Sony), Fantastic Four (20 th Century Fox), and X-Men (20 th Century Fox). A few years later, Iger made another successful deal to buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in 2009.