A Company Selling Off Its Family Jewels In December 1996, Marvel Entertainment Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, weighed down by roughly $610 million in debt after a decade […]
Comic-Con’s Crossroads: A Convention That May Have Outgrown Its Hometown
From a Hotel Basement to a Global Phenomenon In March 1970, roughly 100 people gathered in the basement of the U.S. Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego for a one-day […]