But if Lee could choose other Marvel characters to give the big-screen treatment, which would he pick?
Marvel is now part of Disney and eventually the rival studio will make movies based on the Marvel characters.
The Avengers, which is slated to be directed by Joss Whedon, will feature a slew of Marvel characters including Iron Man, Thor and The Incredible Hulk.
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The Disney Magic, which is being retro-fitted this fall, will set sail in October 2013 with the first interactive attraction featuring Marvel characters designed by Walt Disney Imagineers.
Geek-tastic director Joss Whedon confirmed that he will be spearheading the superhero film, which features a slew of Marvel characters including Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson).
Hundreds more Marvel characters belong to Disney.
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Things are still cloudy with Marvel and Disney theme parks because of an old, long-term licensing deal between the comic book giant and Universal theme parks that includes exclusive rights for Marvel characters east of the Mississippi for theme park use.
"DC has a harder time of it than Marvel because their characters are (from) an old, a bygone era, where characters were bigger than we were, " he said.
Marvel is claiming that NCSoft is allowing players to create look-alike characters of Marvel superheroes such as Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk.
Comic writer Lee assigned the rights to his superhero characters to Marvel in 1998, but after Stan Lee Media collapsed, minority shareholders of the company claimed that Lee had previously assigned those rights in a written agreement to a predecessor company of Stan Lee Media.
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The distinguishing ways Mr. Taylor works the hands of the men and women dancers as insectlike characters is a marvel unto itself.
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Players can unlock more than one hundred characters from the Marvel Universe.
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For the last few years Michael Wolk has quietly worked to advance the multi-billion dollar copyright infringement lawsuit that claims Walt Disney Co. does not own the rights to iconic Stan Lee-created superhero characters it acquired from Marvel Entertainment, like Spider-Man, X-Men, The Incredible Hulk and The Fantastic Four.
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Beyond movies, Disney's attraction to Marvel comes from being able to use its characters in its theme-parks, video games, merchandise and other outlets.
And it would be great to see their 'cosmic' characters break loose on film -- Captain Marvel, Nova, Ms. Marvel and so on.
This is, of course, similar to the Marvel Comics creation of a film universe in which many of their characters interact and team up (as in The Avengers film this past summer).
Our acquisition of Marvel three years later combined Marvel's strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters with Disney's creative skills, unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties, and an integrated business structure that maximizes the value of creative content across multiple platforms and territories.
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The series -- about a group of space explorers given various superpowers after being hit by cosmic rays -- began a new era for Marvel Comics, signaling the start of their wave of Silver Age characters, including Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, Iron Man and many more.
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Fox Kids cartoons X-Men and Spider-Man proved a perfect gateway drug into the Marvel universe and they were followed up not by reiterations on the same popular characters but with attempts (most of them admittedly less than successful) to further the popularity of B-level characters like Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, and The Fantastic Four.
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