The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: cÃ rn [ËkÊ°aËrË nÌªË ] (plural cÃ irn [ËkÊ°aËrË É²]).[1] Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes, from prehistoric times to the present.
Disney to Buy Marvel in $4 Billion Deal. Spider-Man and Mickey Mouse are about to become step-brothers. The Walt Disney Co. is in the process of buying Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in cash and stock. The deal would give the Mouse House ownership of Marvelâs 5,000 superhero characters.
1 Marvel makes much more money from movies than from comics. 2  Some years ago they sold the movie rights to their characters (generally agreed to be a bad decision), but the rights reverted back to Marvel in the late 1990s, leading to the big movies (mainly the Spider-man and X-Men franchise).One bookstore manager described Marvel's sales at her location for me as okay when there was a movie out, but otherwise negligible.) (source). 2011: Marvel cuts costs, DC draws the line at 2.99. In 2011 DC resisted Marvel's trend to raise the prices of comics from $2.99 to $3.99.