$UPER VILLAINS: The Decline and Fall of the Comic Book Industry – Part 3 of 3

Note from JayJay: The final part of a book proposal Jim wrote in 1998. Chapter Five: “The Perelman Cometh” During the Ronald O. Perelman era, Marvel became hugely inflated, much like the Hindenburg. The comics themselves were mysterious to Perelmanʼs management people—including Galton and the other holdovers. They were strange, gaudy hard-to-read things churned out [ ]