I was about to say if you found anything I would trust you to mention it - and, lo, you already are. ;)

I'm just academically curious, myself. I agree that Marvel might have been long courting precisely this kind of acquisition precisely so guys like that could get his $1.4 billion paycheck . . . and that it doesn't mean that this isn't because of extended leveraging because of movies, hehe. Or, perhaps, that was the entire point behind the movie deals or something like that. *shrugs* Who can say? Even anti-trust paperwork doesn't really tell a person too much about what's going on in the company.