Chapter 113 Show your strength and tell them to go away!

When talking about Marvel, we can’t avoid its soul figure - Stan Lee.

He is only 58 years old now, so he is not an old man.

At the age of 19, he was appointed interim editor-in-chief by his then boss Martin Goodman.

Except for the four years from 1941 to 1945 when he served in the Army, he has always been Marvel's editor-in-chief and art director.

In 1972, he officially became the publisher and chairman of Marvel Comics, and began to gradually fade out of specific creation.

But the Marvel Universe and its important characters were created by him.

It can be said that many heroes in Marvel call him "Dad".

Therefore, when the company later had to sell "The Child", one can imagine how heartbroken and reluctant Stan Lee would be.

That’s right, the person who contacted Fang Hexuan was this person, the real head of Marvel today.

Stan Lee looked at the Transformers character information and the novels he created for them.

I was also thinking about how to localize this interesting story.

Fang Hexuan's request was to add some American hero-building elements without changing the core storyline.
Make it more suitable for American children's taste.

"Mr. Fang, I like this story very much, and I admire your genius imagination and creativity."

"Haha, thank you Mr. Li for the compliment. Actually, I also like Marvel comics, especially the universe settings in them. They are so cool. My Transformers universe was also inspired by Marvel."

"Haha, this is indeed Marvel's core selling point. Which Marvel character do you like best, Mr. Fang?"

".Well, I like Spider-Man, Wolverine, Captain America, Deadpool, Black Widow, Punisher, Star-Lord, etc."

"But if I had to say my favorite, I think it would be Iron Man."

"Oh? That's strange. Many readers think Tony Stark is just an ordinary person and not powerful enough. Why do you like him?"

"Hehe, maybe Stark and I have a lot in common."

"For example, they are all very imaginative, billionaires, humorous, young, and most importantly, handsome!"

"Ha ha."

“I think if Marvel heroes are made into movies in the future, Iron Man will be the most popular character.”

"Oh? Do you believe these comics can be adapted to the big screen?"

"Of course, why not? The emergence of Jaws and Star Wars has already foreshadowed the beginning of the innovation of film technology, and the film adaptation of Marvel Comics is just around the corner."

"I didn't expect Mr. Fang to know something about movies?"

"To be honest with you, Mr. Li, I own a film company in Hong Kong, and I pay no less attention to film technology than Hollywood filmmakers."

"But as far as I know, Hong Kong can only make kung fu movies like Bruce Lee's, right?"

"Haha, my company is called DreamWorks. It was only established two years ago, and now it's already the largest film production company in Hong Kong."

"My goal is to bring DreamWorks to the United States in the next few years and have it take root in Hollywood."

"I still have many brilliant ideas in my head, and I need Hollywood's dream factory to turn them into movies one by one."

"Even in the future, Transformers will appear on the big screen. Can you imagine what these machine life forms that can think and speak human language will look like to us?"

"Yes, indeed. I am looking forward to it as well."

"Thank you. I love movies and comics. I came to Marvel this time because I hope you can help me bring Transformers to the American people and even the whole world."

"No problem, you don't have to worry about Marvel's ability. As long as the money is in place, I guarantee you'll be satisfied."

"Haha, the last thing I lack is money. Just like Stark, my pursuit in life has moved beyond vulgarity."

"Then I wish us a happy cooperation." "Happy cooperation!"

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What Fang Hexuan and Stan Lee said was nothing more than a demonstration of their abilities and strength.

In 1978, rival DC Comics had taken the lead by bringing its most dazzling hero character, "Superman", to the big screen and won multiple Academy Awards in 1979.

As the head of the company, Stan Lee saw it all and was worried.

But at this time Marvel was still a subsidiary of Cadence Industries Corporation, and the parent company had always disagreed with Stan Lee's idea of ​​starting a film business.

But the ideal of making movies has always been in the hearts of Stan Lee and Marvel.

Fang Hexuan came to him at this time, not only because he really wanted to make Transformers into comics, but also because he wanted to use this opportunity to establish a relationship with Marvel and leave a good impression on them.

After all, even if the company was sold, Stan Lee would have a say.

The head of the company always has some influence on who to sell to and who not to sell to.

Fang Hexuan has been hinting to Stan Lee in both explicit and implicit ways that he and DreamWorks would be good partners.

After discussing all the details about the creation of the Transformers comics with Marvel, Fang Hexuan did not plan to stay in New York for long.
He had little interest in visiting attractions such as Wall Street, Central Park, Times Square, and the Statue of Liberty.

When he was about to leave for Silicon Valley, he was visited by people from Hasbro.

Fang Hexuan is not very famous in the United States, but some people noticed him.

Probably because Rhode Island is not far from New York, Hasbro was tipped off and immediately arranged for executives to come and block him.

Why else? The Transformers toy license, of course.

If they didn't know that Fang Hexuan was very rich, they would probably want to swallow up the copyright of Transformers whole and whole.

Hasbro's toy production is all outsourced to OEM factories in Hong Kong.

Since the first batch of toys were launched in Hong Kong at the end of 78, they have quickly become popular throughout Asia.

It was April 79 when Hasbro noticed the Transformers toy.

At first, they sent people to Hong Kong to negotiate with Pokémon, hoping to acquire all the copyrights of Transformers at once.

But Fang Hexuan directly ordered the Pokémon negotiators to reply to the other party with one word - get out!

Hasbro did not give up and sent two more groups of people to negotiate. The conditions were higher and higher, but Pokémon was not interested at all.

With no other options left, Hasbro started to resort to tricks and began to copy and plagiarize the Transformers' toy designs and story ideas.

This made Fang Hexuan very angry. Not long after, Hasbro received court subpoenas in the United States and various Asian countries.

In order to prevent copycats, Fang Hexuan asked Pokémon's designers to draw multiple sets of design plans, including mecha colors, weapon styles, robot images, etc.

These designs were eventually patented.

It's just a matter of spending a little more in registration fees. How could Boss Fang give others an opportunity to take advantage of it?

No matter how creative Hasbro's designers are, they cannot completely circumvent Fang Hexuan's patent.

Unless, they create a completely different robot image.

But if that were the case, wouldn’t that go against Hasbro’s original intention?
In the end, Hasbro lost money and gave up its copycat plans.

But the bad impression they left on Mr. Fang is not so easy to change.

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(End of this chapter)