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What a potential buyer would get is a Marvel unrecognizable from the cartoonish operation it was eight years ago. First, owner Ron Perelman pillaged Marvel for cash and floated $250 million in high-yield debt. The weakened company couldn't make the payments and went bankrupt in 1996. Perelman had also sold off much of the company's most valuable intellectual property...
...years on, the stories had become tired, and comic-book sales were miserable. So in 2002 Marvel began to hire writers and artists from outside the comic business, turning instead to TV and film writers and novelists. The results have reinvigorated the industry, says Gerry Gladston, a co-owner of New York City's Midtown Comics. "The stories have gotten better and better, fans are thrilled, and sales are climbing," he says. Marvel produces about 70 titles a month these days, and its market share of the $450 million industry has nearly doubled since 1999. Gladston adds, "Marvel's pretty...
...Coastal Highway. It contains more than 800 wildflower species, but they're not screaming out to the motorist flashing by at the 110-km/h limit. "We tell people, Stop the car, get out, walk into the bush and you'll be amazed at what you find," says Rae Edwards, owner of the Kalbarri Wildflower Centre. A big part of her job is teaching people how to look. "If you see a bird or bee on a bush, it's a clue there are flowers...
...Burke Shire, turning Highway 1 into a chain of atolls; supplies had to be dropped to some settlements by helicopter. At Floraville station, 73 km south of the town-and 80 km inland-the homestead was an island for two weeks, and sharks were seen circling the henhouse. Owner Kylie Camp says her husband Ernie was about to rescue some floating oil drums when "he saw the fins and decided...
...Watching it all is owner Zig Osis, who with wife Jennifer sold up as Step 1 of a "two-step retirement plan." Empty nesters, they're downsizing to a smaller place in Millicent, with a plan to sell that, too, in about seven years, buy a motor home and travel the country. As surprised as anyone that people would part with money for a lot of this stuff, Osis reckons he and Jennifer might clear a bit over $5,000 from the sale...