Smash! Pow! Bam! Why superheroes go bankrupt.(investor Ron Perelman)

Reason | October 1, 2002| | Copyright

MEGA-INVESTOR RON Perelman has all the traits of a comic book supervillain. He's massively wealthy and powerful More to the point, he exudes enough vanity and overreach to make Lex Luthor and Dr. Doom seem like a couple of Girl Scouts. So it's not surprising to see Perelman slugging it out with rival billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn on the cover of Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire...And Both Lost!!! (Broadway Books). As described by journalist Dan Raviv, the board room brouhaha between Perelman arid Icahn isn't just the most ...

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