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Article: Smash! Pow! Bam! Why superheroes go bankrupt.(investor Ron Perelman)
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- Reason
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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MEGA-INVESTOR RON Perelman has all the traits of a comic book supervillain. He's massively wealthy and powerful More to the point, he exudes enough vanity and overreach to make Lex Luthor and Dr. Doom seem like a couple of Girl Scouts. So it's not surprising to see Perelman slugging it out with rival billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn on the cover of Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire...And Both Lost!!! (Broadway Books). As described by journalist Dan Raviv, the board room brouhaha between Perelman arid Icahn isn't just the most entertaining battle royale since Superman and Muhammad Ali punched each other's lights out in a late-'70s ...
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Article: Marvel Files Multi-Count Lawsuit Against Perelman, ...
Business Wire;
October 30, 1997 ;
700+ words
... ... the direction of Perelman and his affiliates ... lawsuit seeks to allow Marvel to take control ... other things, that Perelman, with the active ... i) transferred Marvel's toy licensing ... bank loans, lent Perelman material assistance ... designed to injure Marvel's estate. Marvel ...
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