21.7.08

The ongoing saga of the largest Hollywood copyright lawsuit ever, Stan Lee Media vs Marvel Entertainment, 2007, is worthy of an entire series of comic books and at least one blockbuster Super Hero movie.

Video Debunking The Motley Fool's Video Defending Marvel's Actions

This blog will chronicle the history of pop icon, "Godfather of the modern Super Hero" Stan Lee's actions in co-creating the most popular character franchises of all time and then hiding his ownership rights in them in corporate skulduggery worthy of the machinations of the "evilest" Stan Lee Super Villain.

The lawsuit of Stan Lee Media Inc v Marvel Entertainment Inc filed in Manhattan federal court in April, 2007 is beginning to expose this amazing story linking notorious corporate raiders and looters, a US President and Senator, CIA and government operatives and an array of Hollywood characters straight out of "Get Shorty".

The installments of this saga presented in this blog will provide links to key documents, pleadings, videos and photos that expose the web of intrigue that has surrounded The Amazing Spider Man and his octogenarian creator since before Stan Lee started his namesake studio, Stan Lee Media Inc, in the dot com Hollywood gold rush of 1998- 2000.

The story revolves around the co-creator's rights that automatically vested in Stan Lee by copyright law when he conceived of Spider Man and the other characters he created outside his job as Editor and Chief Writer for Marvel, at his home from 1961-1968. It explains how Stan Lee's Rights have been hidden, first by Marvel and then, when purchasers of Marvel from bankruptcy voided Stan's lifetime employment agreement in August, 1998, to Stan Lee Media in a process that spanned from 1994-the present. The evidence shows that egregious violations of Securities, Bankruptcy and fiduciary laws were involved in hiding and obtaining Stan Lee's Rights, and the outcome of Stan Lee Media v Marvel Entertainment could well shake the foundations of Stan Lee's House of Ideas where Wall Street meets Hollywood Boulevard.

20.7.08

The Battle for Stan Lee's Billion Dollar Characters: Spider Man, X-Men, Ironman

The 13(d) filed by Jim Nesfield on the Marvel Entertainment SEC site is very curious because it alleges a series of collusions and shareholder, bankruptcy and 10(b)5 frauds by Stan Lee and Marvel Chairman Perlmutter- yet the SEC has not taken the filing off of its official web site since it was posted in August 2007. Either the SEC is aiding and abetting Nesfield's 10(b)5 violation against Marvel or it is enabling the illegalities if Stan lee and Marvel Entertainment management described in the filing.