How Marvel went bankrupt, sold off its heroes, and clawed back to own cinema

Marvel stock plummeted from over thirty-five dollars to under three dollars before their nineteen ninety-six bankruptcy.

Sony Pictures secured Spider-Man rights while Marvel earned only sixty-two million from three billion in box office.

Marvel risked their entire character library as collateral for a five hundred twenty-five million dollar production loan.

The studio earned only twenty-five thousand dollars from the first Blade movie despite its massive commercial success.

Disney acquired Marvel for over four billion dollars following the global success of the first Iron Man film.

Licensing restrictions forced Marvel to build their cinematic universe around Iron Man instead of more famous heroes.