Coming meticulous investigative reporting with entertaining story-telling, COMIC WARS exposes the actions and motives of two Goliath-style corporate raiders (Ronald Perelman and Carl Icahn), two innovative Davids (Avi Arad and Ike Perlmutter), and some of the world's biggest banks. As ferocious and fateful as any battle in the pages of Marvel Comics, this is the true story
- Title : Comic Wars: Marvel's Battle for Survival
- Author : Dan Raviv
- Rating : 4.72 (979 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-2-13
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 120 Pages
- Asin : B008HJX38W
- Language :
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