I don't think Stan Lee had anything to do with it. He isn;t even o the MArvel executive board anymore.
Current Marvel Exec Lineup
Officers
Allen Lipson Avi Arad Kenneth West Alan Fine
Tim Rothwell Bruno Maglione
David Maisel Isaac Perlmutter John Turitzin
Allen Lipson Avi Arad Kenneth West Alan Fine
Tim Rothwell Bruno Maglione
David Maisel Isaac Perlmutter John Turitzin
Directors
Morton E. Handel Isaac Perlmutter Avi Arad F. Peter Cuneo
James F. Halpin Sid Ganis
Richard L. Solar
J R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Morton E. Handel Isaac Perlmutter Avi Arad F. Peter Cuneo
James F. Halpin Sid Ganis
Richard L. Solar
J R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Makes perfect sense to me for Stan Lee to do this... after all, it was all those generations of French children and young adults who made Marvel what it is today, Qui? And where better to display all those historic comics written in English? What, Stan was too cheap to start his own comic history museum here in the USA? I thought he had points on the Spidey movies...-- JR----- Original Message -----From: MovielegendsSent: Friday, December 31, 2004 19:39Subject: [MOPO] Read It And Weep....Comic Books Donated to French Museum
By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press Writer
PARIS -
Spiderman, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk and
Daredevil have bounded across the Atlantic in a single
leap - a giant donation of almost 300,000 vintage
comic books to a French museum.
Jean-Pierre Mercier, who manages the collection for
France's National Center for Comic Books and Images,
said he was "flabbergasted" when he learned in March
that Marvel Enterprises wanted to donate the huge
quantity of comic books dating back as far as the
1950s.
The gift, from one of the top U.S. comic publishers,
was made through Gifts in Kind, a U.S. charity that
distributes donated items.
"Marvel specifically requested that they go overseas
to a cultural institution where they would benefit
numerous children and numerous people," said charity
volunteer Margaret Mallon-Pujol. She said the French
comic book muse! um was the ideal candidate.
The museum, in the western city of Angouleme, didn't
know what a superhuman task it was in for.
Mercier said Mallon-Pujol first offered 800,000 to 1
million comic books, but he declined the offer. Such a
gift would overwhelm his museum. Instead, the museum
selected only what it believed to be the earliest
books, including some published under Marvel's early
names: Timely Comics and Atlas Comics. In June, about
275,000 books arrived in 1,800 boxes. Among them were
hundreds of copies of the same editions.
Most date from the early 1950s to the late 1970s.
Mercier believes the collection represents nearly 80
percent of comic books produced by Marvel during that
span.
The comics are being sorted into five identical
collections, two for the center and others for
France's National Library and a museum in Amadora,
Portugal, said Catherine Bourgouin, spokeswoman of the
Angouleme museum. The destination of the fifth
collection has not yet been determined.
The Angouleme museum hasn't decided how it will
display its colorful treasure - although an exhibit on
the glory years of Spiderman, the Hulk, the Fantastic
Four and other superheroes is expected.
For customs purposes, the collection's value was
estimated at US$300,000 (euro225,000), but experts say
the real value is difficult to ascertain. A
mint-condition, first-edition "Spiderman" from 1963,
for example, would be valued today at US$32,500
(euro24,095), said Frederic Solti, manager of the Gael
comic book shop in Paris.
Susan Corrigan, president of the Gifts in Kind charity
in Alexandria, Virginia, said Marvel is one of the top
donors to the organization and has given millions of
comics to young people in the United States and
overseas.
"They just thought this would be an effective thing to
donate worldwide," she said.
The agreeme! nt with Gifts in Kind allows the museum to
destroy duplicate copies, but it cannot barter, trade,
sell or give any away.
"We have received e-mails, phone calls and letters
from fans and specialists who protest and complain
about this decision, but there is no way for us to
deal with that in any other way," Mercier said.
An initial sorting, numbering and stamping of the
books should be completed in 2005.
The museum is still waiting for Marvel to send about
8,000 books - the oldest, rarest ones - which the
publisher is scanning into its digital archives.
Some of the most valuable include love-story comics -
designed to appeal to girls - from the 1950s and
earliest issues of the Fantastic Four, Spiderman and
Captain America, among others.
Marvel is also home to Captain Marvel, the X-Men, the
Avengers, and other superheroes.
The French museum was created in 1990 and its
collection has consisted mostly of French and Belgian
comics. It organizes a four-day international comic
book festival each January.
The festival this year is Jan. 27-30 and includes
shows on comic books figures, young comic book
artists, and the origins and future of comics.
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