>>9997571Because they wanted full control over their movies. The companies who were distributing their movies (Universal and Paramount) saw how successful their movies were and wanted to stick their dicks into them.
So Marvel needed to find a new distributor for their movies, which came in the form of Disney buying them out. Since Marvel was such a valuable asset, Marvel retained independence from Disney. So they basically act like a separate company.
>>9997567Perlmutter was never ousted. He's still a chairman for Marvel and Disney, but he's only just a single chairman. There's more people than him who vote on what they do and they don't need to always agree with him, even if he benefits the most by being the largest shareholder.
pic is more god-tier work from toy Biz and why Marvel became so huge.
Pretty sad that toys of this caliber will never be made again without costing over a hundred bucks.
