Comments on: Has Boom! Lost Another Disney License?

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:19:55 +0000

What is it with Disney and discontinuing their comics? The above points are right.

I think part of the problem was that Boom Studios never got the rights to the Carl Barks and Related stories. Instead, they published European stories which are not the classics. Looks like Boom is doing OK though, Gemstone, sadly, went under.

Disney is losing many people and maybe some generations by not having Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck in an affordable monthly comic.

By: Allan. W. Gray

Allan. W. Gray — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 02:25:08 +0000

I am giving up on Disney comics because I believe the Disney org is chasing it’s tail and does not know what it’s doing. As far as I’m concerned they should have left it with Gladstone as they were the best. They(Disney comp) should just stick to making films!!
As for me, I don’t know what I will collect now…perhaps money

By: Chuck Munson

Chuck Munson — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:08:09 +0000

Oh, dear, heavens! Here we go again? Disney has proven before that they do not have the comics savvy to make a (modest) success of their own characters in comic book format. I agree that handing it to Marvel, which knows superheroes well but I suspect knows a lot less about the storied history that can be found in Disney, is probably *not* a good idea.

By: Jim Kosmicki

Jim Kosmicki — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:14:14 +0000

They did the same thing to Gladstone – and the comics from Disney didn’t last long at all. Disney did publish a great Kyle Baker Dick Tracy comic, but they ended up focusing most of their effort on the Disney Adventures digest, as I recall.

Disney has never understood publishing (Hyperion Books anyone?) – they need to stick to licensing. Marvel has never understood publishing anything but superheroes – Dennis the Menace is successful in comics for decades and Marvel ends up cancelling the book in a year. Star Comics was successful for a while with their licensed titles, but that was when Marvel could still sell on the newsstand.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:48:01 +0000

True, the big question is how successful Marvel’s going to be with outreach beyond their traditional audience. They haven’t been very successful in the past, but now, they have new initiative, I imagine.

By: Jer

Jer — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:44:43 +0000

Disney has a history at this point of waffling back and forth between licensing their properties out to smaller comics companies and bringing them back “in house” and trying to publish them themselves. So Boom hopefully knew that this was a very likely probability and planned for it when they decided to take the licenses on.

I wonder if owning their own comics publishing company will stop the waffling between licensing out and doing it themselves. I suppose it depends on whether Marvel can figure out how to successfully market non-superhero characters to the target demographic for Disney characters or not.