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Originally Posted by Rausch
Marvel doesn't get the MCU money. Marvel comics are losing their ass. For years now. They don't sell 1/5th of what they did 10 years ago.
Marvel comics hasn't gone out of business because Disney owns them and they're pushing what Disney wants them to.
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This is so far from accurate I can only assume it's completely pulled out of your ass.
You can see
here Marvel's total number of comics sold has generally fallen between 2 and 4 million since the industry recovered from the speculator crash in the late 90s. That's a fairly large variance, but nothing you could characterize as an 80% drop. Plus this isn't taking into account trades and digital, which are bigger pieces of the pie than they were 10 years ago.
One conclusion you
can draw from this data is that comics are at point near inelastic demand. So when faced with that the ways you can make more money are to either A) raise prices (which they have) or B) make an attempt to appeal to people outside the sphere you are operating in. So you get the push for diversity, not as some kind of SJW plot, but as an attempt to tap into a trend to sell comics. I think it didn't work because there weren't genuinely diverse points of view, it was mostly the same white male creators pandering. And before someone gets their dick in a knot, that's not a criticism of white male creators, it's a criticism of pandering.