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Science Fiction
Disney purchases Marvel
Monday, 31 August 2009 12:50   
SciFi

In a big surprise, Disney has announced that they will be purchasing Marvel Entertainment. The total cost of the purchase was $ 50 per Marvel share, which comes out to $4 billion total. Each Marvel share holder was given $30 per share, as well as .0745 of Disney shares for each marvel share they owned.