Twenty Years Ago Today Marvel Bought Out Malibu



Tom Mason dropped me an e-mail this morning -- it likely went out to others, but I'm not all the way certain about that -- that today marks the 20th year anniversary of the Marvel/Malibu deal. He noted that his one-time co-worker and long-time friend Paul O'Connor commemorated the event here, complete with lovely memo jpegs.

I made a joke on twitter that this buyout was the instigating event for an extended run of goofy decisions by the entire comics industry. I'm not sure that's true -- I'm certain that if you look hard enough there are earlier business deals. What I remember in covering the industry at the time is that this seemed like an event very focused on then-recent industry woes that brought to bear a decision-making process of a kind with the later Diamond deals and bankruptcies. It was a really interesting time, that's for sure.
 
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