POWN run just started !!
Marvel’s Not Enough - Disney Also Acquires Stake in Stan Lee’s POW
Jan 3, 2010 Author: orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) | Filed under: Best Movies 2008
Batman and Super Mario aren’t the only icons to have their own POW!
Apparently an acronym for Purveyors of Wonder, Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment are an output for “new characters and franchises” created by The Man in recent years. At the same time as locking up their acquisition of Marvel this past Thursday, the Disney board also agreed to take on 10% of POW! shares. Seems that they just can’t get enough of that four-colour stuff.
So what do POW! have to offer? Officially, they have “20 new franchise characters in active stages of development and another 40 to be introduced”. So far, we only have significant details of a small handful.
The Hollywood Reporter reveal only “lighthearted mystery tale Nick Ratchett, action-adventure project Blaze and one called Tigress.” Go digging at the POW! site and there’s some more info.
Indeed, when it comes to Tigress, Nick Ratchett and Blaze the site explicitly mentions Disney, probably as a result of the First Look deal that already existed between the two companies:
