Marvel Comics 3Q Revenues Round-Up
There's a bunch of stuff out there regarding Marvel's 3Q figures, from a transcript of the conference call that followed the report's release to the usual Motley Fool columnist playing Chester the Terrier to Marvel's Spike the Bulldog. It seems to me that the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com will probably have everything you need. The takeaway from an overall standpoint seems to be the lack of movies for 2009 and how that affects things; the publishing takeaway seems to be that publishing revenues were down due to investment in on-line initiative and loss of some custom publishing work, with major on-line initiatives on the horizon and a delicate attitude toward price increases reflecting current economic times.
