WI: Donald Trump buys Marvel Comics in 1989?

No max age limits for the POTUS. Besides it's well established that with every published issue, Stan gains 1 extra month of lifespan.

Man, people questioned if Reagan was too old when he was 69 and 73.
Some people thought Sanders and Hillary were too old, and they're 75 and 69. (Trump's 70, but I don't recall if anyone questioned him over his age)

84 might be seen as way too old to pull it off.
 
"When the Avengers send their people they aren't sending their best. They're bringing terrigen mist, they're attracting supervillains, they're Skrulls and some, I assume are good people."

I'm not sure how much Trump's personal politics would effect Marvel's direction too much, the current head of Marvel donated a significant amount of money to the Trump campaign a couple of months ago and yet their work has come to be known for being inclusive and Trump himself seems to be more than willing to let ghostwriters do the work for him so I can't imagine that owning Marvel would be enough to get his creative/micromanagerial juices flowing. Trump himself is a fairly well liked in the 1990s but lacked the star power that would come in the 2000s so even most comic book fans probably wouldn't have to strong a reaction at first. If Trump's propensity for stiffing workers held however it could scare potential workers away from Marvel either allowing DC to become the comic book juggernaut or having enough creative types disillusioned by corporate life enough to make the creator-owned indie boom develop early.
 
Man, people questioned if Reagan was too old when he was 69 and 73.
Some people thought Sanders and Hillary were too old, and they're 75 and 69. (Trump's 70, but I don't recall if anyone questioned him over his age)

84 might be seen as way too old to pull it off.

True. 84 years is pretty high age for such office. It wouldn't be even sure that so old can survive from his office. Rarely 84 years old is anymore very good condition. And even he is his health might decline rapidly.
 
True. 84 years is pretty high age for such office. It wouldn't be even sure that so old can survive from his office. Rarely 84 years old is anymore very good condition. And even he is his health might decline rapidly.

I love how you guys are seriously debating the likelihood of President Lee.

Of course it's not up for debate...Stan wins by a landslide! Excelsior!
 

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As the owner of the company, I can't imagine Trump would have any real input on the stories. Ron Perelman didn't have any real input on the stories. Ike Perlmutter doesn't have any real input on the stories. Influence, yes, if he wants to exercise it, but it would be very unusual if a man with business interests worth billions of dollars all over the world is going to be especially interested in what Spider-Man's doing this month. It's not like Marvel Comics in 1989 would be one of the top tier businesses in his portfolio, is it?

Then again, could well be wrong.
 
Trump is in no way going to involve himself with the actual operation. Most likely, he will simply bundle it with his other interests. He might license it out, but the level of CGI and special effects in the 1980's and early 1990's, is just not at a level to realize the movies. So..... I imagine under Trump, the property would spiral out and end up in oblivion. The assets would end up picked up by DC for a song.
 

Because the Trump Casinos went bankrupt, because Trump Steaks and Trump Wine, and Trump University all went under. Because he's spent his life buying things and frittering away money because he has no idea how to actually run anything, and even less interest in trying. Because his entire business model consists of narcissism and floundering.

He gets a property. It's a new toy. He meddles with it briefly, which does no good. Then he gets bored and allows it to die on the vine. After the value has largely eroded to nothing, he sells off or gets rid of it, the losses are packaged or offloaded onto something else, and then he's on to something else. Rinse and repeat. End of story.

He's pretty much a disaster for anything he gets involved in.
 
Comics would bercome more xenophobic, Islamophobic and sexist. Then the company would be bankcrupted.

This is assuming Trump is actually believes a word he is saying which is a hell of an assumption IMO. I see his whole political campaign as a huge publicity stunt. He always seemed more attention seeking than political to me. What better way to get attention than run for being President of the US?
 
One POTENTIAL positive is that a lot the right wingers chased out of comics in the late 90s and early 2000s - for whatever reason, comics solidified to the left around that time - Marvel may become home to creators like Chuck Dixon, Beau Smith and the like. Which would be interesting.
 
For starters, it'd quickly be renamed to "Trump Comics".

More ads (Twinkies, X-Ray specs, Trump Casinos and Resorts)

Captain America now wears a MAGA cap.
 
One POTENTIAL positive is that a lot the right wingers chased out of comics in the late 90s and early 2000s - for whatever reason, comics solidified to the left around that time - Marvel may become home to creators like Chuck Dixon, Beau Smith and the like. Which would be interesting.
Yeah trying to make comics leftwing propaganda sure worked out well for OTL, especially with that brilliant recent issue of Captain America /s.
 
This appears to be some strange use of the phrase "Left Wing propaganda" I am unfamiliar with.
I used that to describe how most of Marvel's comics are, granted I'm okay with something like superheroes who aren't white cishet males (like that muslim Ms. Marvel), that's one thing but it's another to have strawman haters of Fem Thor and Cap being a bad guy all of the sudden.

I'm sorry if I'm getting off topic but I just like to remind everyone that politicization of comics to the max on either side of the spectrum isn't a good thing.
 
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