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These stock -- the market today hitting an all time -- and -- back to their box office hit the avengers.
Which stars just about every marvel comic hero there is.
What's great about -- -- hooking yet another generation on marvel superheroes is that the man who helped create -- superiors is just shy right.
By few months of nine years old mr.
stand late chairman and Chief Executive Officer power entertainment.
Has been a god father of Marvel Comics for at least fifty years and a Fox Business exclusive I -- stand how -- -- -- -- -- so active and up to date as he closes in on nine.
You know most people say when their -- and if they don't like what they do.
They say -- detailed wait to retire so I can do what I really want to do -- play golf and stuff.
But I'm doing what I wanted -- I don't considered work -- play and come talk and the guys like you I'm talking to writers and actors and directors and -- How can you have more -- absolute -- let's talk about the avengers because you're also making a lot of money for a lot of people are helping to do that anyway.
207 million dollars the -- a box office -- -- away Harry Potter you -- it all -- And you float and and -- general Clinton on marble Comex.
-- could have made 210.
Million and now I don't know why they didn't make it around number.
But -- what these characters have been popular for years and it was just so clever of marvel and Disney to put them all together.
And one -- the the -- we had done at Marvel Comics years ago you know we had an avengers comic book and I -- sixties somewhere in and it was a good book that's right but what -- -- what do you do now other than avengers to an avengers three I mean.
Is this is this gonna be a new -- -- of that that are used by other.
Other filmmakers.
Well everybody tries to copy yes of course.
But we're not only -- -- avengers we have great characters we haven't even made movies of yet.
Like -- Doctor Strange and the black panther and and -- and then so many others.
And then we can keep going back to our regular characters like Thor and Iron Man and so forth so.
That's studio what is -- be busy for so many years and I'll probably be gotten talk shows.
Acting like I did anything to do what the movies which I really don't.
Except for -- knows which of course that the only reason people go to your cameos but again you you -- you.
You really created the mystique around -- there are a lot of people that were there with you -- marvel a lot of people -- -- creative process but you worthy specialists.
In the in creating that mystique.
For what Marvel Comics really -- right.
Well it was I loved advertising.
And I was talking to people.
And I like public relations.
And I've tried my best to make everybody feel that they were -- part of marvel.
You know we started rock club the -- marble mart shouldn't marching society.
And I came up with slogans like make mine marvel welcome to the marvel age of comics and things like that and they caught -- and it was great.
It's all marketing and promotion in this man is a genius not only with comics but with that -- by the way we didn't even mention Spider-Man.
We're coming up to the fiftieth anniversary of course we have the new Spider-Man what do you think of the new version.
Andrew Garfield is just sensational.
And just as Tobey Maguire was great and people didn't expect that.
Garfield is just his grades and everybody is gonna love him it's it's gonna be a terrific movie standby letter not my cameo is great while -- course that would -- throughout say -- we are literally out of time but I have to ask.
About your marriage as well you've been married almost 65 years people want to know what's -- secret.
To a happy marriage Stanley.
Married married the right girl let's go all -- it's that simple.
Well to only lived the life of Stanley that would be a dream that everybody -- Stanley.
Great to see -- chairman and chief creative officer at -- entertainment.
Hey thanks a million David always loved talk -- He really here is a superhero right -- you think he's got some minutes but I'm -- I I really think he's that he's got that sort of immortal blood debt.
That he has had transfused from one of a super action hero my.
