“Pity the land without heroes!” “No, pity the land that needs them.” —Bertolt Brecht, Galileo — As inconceivable as it seems, 2008’s Iron Man was, at the time, a mortgage-the-farm gamble for Marvel Comics, who was tired of watching film studios like Fox (The X-Men, The Fantastic Four) and Sony (Spider-Man) profit from films made … Continue reading The Marvel-Industrial Complex