Current Events > Did you know Sony got the movie rights to Spider-Man for only $7 million in the

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90s? They also had the chance to get the rights to characters like Thor, Ant-Man, and Black Panther but thought people would only care about Spidey.

Yea. Nobody respected most superheroes back then. Marvel was shopping around all their characters to build up funds during a bad economic time. But couldn't find anyone who cares about anyone but Spider-Man and the Xmen

Back then, unless you were a comic book reader, most people barely even knew who all the other Marvel characters were, let alone gave a fuck about them

It ended up being a good thing though in the end. Since that meant Marvel still had most character movie rights when the MCU started

Pretty sure they could have bought the entirety of Marvel movie rights in the 90s for 25 million but just wanted Spider-man.

Marvel was in the shitter then. They had to be bought out by the company that made the toys just a few years earlier.

At the time, Spidey and the X-Men really were the only thing most people cared about.

Is it the same "source" that claims Marvel got big money for Hulk Hogan? The editor from the 1980s recently denied it.

Buying low, baby.

its funny how both fucked up. Sony could have had the entire MCU and Marvel sold valuable Spiderman for so little