Ike Perlmutter is out at Marvel…but Marvel Comics is now “redundant”
Ike Perlmutter, longtime Marvel Entertainment CEO, has been sent packing. The New York Times reports that Perlmutter has been laid off by Disney after Marvel’s parent corporation determined that Ike’s role was redundant. In fact, the Times says Disney has decided all of Marvel Entertainment is redundant and will “be folded into larger Disney business units.”
The news comes a few months after a public rebuke of Perlmutter by Disney CEO Bob Iger following a protracted proxy battle in which Perlmutter-backed stockholder …