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Marvel Entertainment Group

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Corporate name headingMarvel Entertainment Group
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Variant(s)Marvel Entertainment, Inc.
Marvel (Firm)
See alsoMarvel Enterprises
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Marvel Entertainment, LLC
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Found inStan Lee presents The Punisher ... c1988: verso t.p. (Marvel Entertainment Group, New York, N.Y.)
LMP 1989: p. 95 (Marvel Books, Div. of Marvel Entertainment Group Inc., New York, N.Y.)
Phone call to Marvel Books, Susan Gaffney, July12, 1989 (Marvel Entertainment Group owns Marvel Comics Group)
Marvel, viewed June 28, 2006 about Marvel page (Marvel Entertainment, Inc.; New York, NY; lists other offices and divisions; licenses characters, toys, games, etc.; webpages are copyrighted by Marvel Characters, Inc. but no information about this division, etc. appears on site)
   <http://www.marvel.com/>
Spider-Man poster book, c2004: t.p. (Marvel) p. 4 of cover (Marvel Characters, Inc.)
How to draw the Marvel way, c1996: label (Marvel Characters, Inc.)
Yahoo finance, viewed June 28, 2006 (Marvel Entertainment, Inc. engages in character licensing, publishing, and toy manufacturing operations in the U.S. and internationally; f. in 1988; it was formerly known as Marvel Enterprises, Inc. and changed its name to Marvel Entertainment, Inc. in 2005)
Wikipedia, Nov. 16, 2010 (Marvel Entertainment; Marvel Entertainment, LLC; American entertainment company formed from the merger of Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. and Toy Biz, Inc.; on Aug. 31, 2009, The Walt Disney Company announced a deal to acquire Marvel Entertainment; shareholder voting occurred on December 31, 2009, and the merger was approved; acquisition of Marvel was finalized hours after the shareholder voted, therefore, giving Disney full ownership of Marvel Entertainment; company's operating units include: Marvel Toys (formerly Toy Biz); Spider-Man Merchandising, L.P. (a joint venture of Marvel and Sony Pictures Consumer Products Inc.); Marvel Television; subsidiaries: Marvel Entertainment International Limited (United Kingdom); Marvel Property, Inc. (Delaware); Marvel Internet Productions LLC (Delaware); Marvel Toys Limited (Hong Kong); MRV, Inc. (Delaware); MVL Development LLC (Delaware); Marvel Film Productions LLC (Delaware); MVL International C.V. (The Netherlands); intellectual property holding companies: Marvel Characters, Inc.; Marvel Characters B.V. (The Netherlands); Marvel International Character Holdings LLC (Delaware); Marvel Publishing, Inc. (publisher of Marvel Comics); Marvel Studios; MVL Film Finance LLC; Marvel Animation; Asgard Productions LLC (Delaware); Green Guy Toons LLC (Delaware); Squad Productions LLC (Delaware); Film Slate Subsidiaries: MVL Rights, LLC; Iron Works Productions LLC; MVL Productions LLC; Incredible Productions LLC; MVL Iron Works Productions Canada, Inc.; MVL Incredible Productions Canada, Inc.; Former units: Fleer Corporation; Malibu Comics; Marvel Productions (1981 to 1997); Panini Group; SkyBox International; Welsh Publishing; Past names: Marvel Enterprises, Inc.; Toy Biz, Inc.; Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc.)
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