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Roy Johnson
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@Eric: The first link in this thread talks about it: "There was flimsy evidence to back it up. That the Marvel 75th Anniversary project had no Fantastic Four on the cover, despite being Marvel’s first superhero team, and the core of the modern Marvel comic. "
Although, nobody seems to be focused on the "flimsy evidence" part here.
Marvel declined comment to CBR on this matter. On Tumblr, Marvel senior vice president of publishing Tom Brevoort responded to a fan inquiry on the issue, writing, "My denying rumors isn’t likely to keep anybody who’s prone to paranoia from panicking. But really, does this even seem remotely plausible to people? Does it make any sense? Folks have a very strange idea as to the way a business is run."
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John Young
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Bleeding Cool is talking about JB's comment in this thread.
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Charles Valderrama
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Tom Brevoort has a very strange idea as to how business should run. It's been obvious for a while that the comic books are 'steering in the direction' of whatever Hollywood envisions for the properties. THAT started when the first X-MEN film opened. Now that they have they're own studios, they want to showcase the characters produced by Marvel Studios logically. Fox and Sony seem to be on their own... but Marvel still gets a percentage of the gross so i don't see the logic of downplaying the FF or the X-Men.
Still, stupid decisions have been made, regardless of the business should be run.
-C!
Update: Tom Brevoort responded to another fan inquiry, writing, "We are publishing FANTASTIC FOUR. Next month, we will be publishing FANTASTIC FOUR. A year from now, assuming that it’s still selling well, we will be publishing FANTASTIC FOUR. Given enough time, anything can happen - we went a couple of years, for example, without a THOR series, as well as a year and a half with FF, AVENGERS, CAP and IRON MAN not being a part of the Marvel Universe. So anything can happen. But it probably won’t."
Edited by Charles Valderrama on 02 June 2014 at 10:56am
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Armindo Macieira
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Forgive my ignorance but if the want to shut down FF because of the movie shouldn't they also shut down X-Men? Doesn't Fox also owns X-Men?
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Michael Casselman
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What line of thought goes behind thinking that the publishing a monthly comic is appreciably helping (or not) the promotion of a movie based on the same comic property, when the general movie-going public knows jack-all about comics these days?
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Michael Roberts
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Considering the memo is to an artist working for one of Marvel's licensees, it's not just the comics.
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Charles Valderrama
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Who's to say the memo is real??
-C!
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Brad Krawchuk
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I can understand keeping the FF solely in comics, but not giving them prominence in licensed merchandise. No FF shirts, mugs, colouring books, birthday plates & napkins, etc. to be spotted by the general public, at least whilst Fox is the benefactor of such promotion by merchandise.
It actually makes perfect sense.
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Armindo Macieira
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It's real. I've received it.
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Stephen Churay
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Bleeding Cool is talking about JB's comment in this thread.
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Good grief! Maybe JB is used to it, but wow! I can't believe an off the
cuff remark from JB, becomes a side story. I knew a few outsiders
lurked out there, but I didn't realize how close they're watchin'.
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John Byrne
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Bleeding Cool is talking about JB's comment in this thread. ====== Good grief! Maybe JB is used to it, but wow! I can't believe an off the cuff remark from JB, becomes a side story. I knew a few outsiders lurked out there, but I didn't realize how close they're watchin'. •• What we see there is fairly typical for that particular venue. Nothing I have said in this thread could, or should be interpreted as an "offer" to Marvel, nor a declaration of any interest on my part in publishing the FF on my own. But that tiny twist of phrasing creates a tempest in a teapot, which, we can safely assume from previous experience, was the intent.
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Craig Robinson
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Has the definition of "offer" changed since I was in grammar school? By the end of the week, this story will likely be, "JB, draped in a robe of Marvel Essentials pages sewn together, releases hostage tape demanding Marvel release publishing rights to Fantastic Four else he will burn Disneyland to the ground... and what it means for your weekend." I'm starting to understand why JB restricts contact with fans to this site. This is like someone not very good with geometry making crop circles in a stranger's field. If Bleeding Cool doesn't want to use their site for actual comic book journalism, I'll take it.
Edited by Craig Robinson on 03 June 2014 at 5:31am
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