Oh yeah, so apparently it actually happened...

According to this statement on Marvel.com, on December 31st of the year 2oo9 the planned acquisition of the company by Walt Disney was approved by Marvel's shareholders and thus went through.

So the House of Ideas now answers to the House of Mouse.

The announcement comes complete with this cute graphic:


This earlier statement also from Marvel.com makes clear that Marvel is about to become "a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney".

The possibilities and pitfalls of the purchase has been gone over and over and over. So suffice it to say 2o1o will be a very interesting year for Marvel Comics and the comic-book industry as a whole.