weight of a single electron, but please start my heart again and tell me tha

t Marvel isnt cancelling Ultimate FF and Fantastic Four to snub Fox or for any other
reason.
It is amazing how many of you guys asked some version of this question this
morning.
And I can hear Rich counting the nickels from your page clicks.
From Tom Brevoorts Tumblr there. And I would like to assure Tom that I am on a fi
xed salary.
So, yes. More. When I first heard the story, albeit from a Marvel source, I thou
ght it was ridiculous.
That Marvel Comics were to cancel their Fantastic Four comics (though still usin
g the characters in other titles) as a deliberate snub to Fox, currently produci
ng the Fantastic Four movie. With the belief, from on high, that any publication
of Fantastic Four comic books only helped Fox Studios at the expense of Marvel
Studios. And while X-Men were just too popular comics to cancel, the Fantastic F
our wasnt. So both comics would be dropped.
There was flimsy evidence to back it up. That the Marvel 75th Anniversary proje
ct had no Fantastic Four on the cover, despite being Marvels first superhero team
, and the core of the modern Marvel comic. I was told that Fantastic Four imager
y had been taken down at Marvels offices. And then certain very chatty people in
the past suddenly clammed up when this was mentioned.
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Well, this morning another shoe on the caterpillar dropped. An artist who I have
been asked not to name, told me,
I do a number of sketch card projects for Upper Deck and Rittenhouse using M
arvel characters. The most recent projects from both companies, one billed as Ma
rvel 75th Anniversary, gave specific guidelines to NOT use any FF characters or
supporting cast such as Dr Doom, Galactus, Surfer, Skrulls etc
So what do we think?
Another source close to Marvel tells me that this is all coming from Marvel CEO
and largest Disney shareholder Ike Perlmutter, who has been known to take these
kind of things very personally indeed.
Also, its worth pointing out that Marvel has a very different relationship with F
ox than it does with Sony.
UPDATE: From another artist, here comes the instruction sheet received by sketch
card artists.
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