10 Comics Fan Theories Confirmed By The Creators

10. Before They Bought Fox, Disney Tried To Bury The X-Men

When the might of Disney took over the running of Marvel, they managed to take a bunch of lesser-known characters and push them into the spotlight. It might seem hard to believe now, but there was a time when the likes of Thor, Iron Man and The Guardians of the Galaxy weren't that well known outside of comic book fandom.

Everyone, on the other hand, had definitely heard of the X-Men.

Now, as they were still licensed to FOX, it was obvious that they wouldn't be appearing in any movies any time soon, but it did strike people as odd that they seemed to have very little place in the new Marvel-Verse that the House of Mouse was creating.

There were no new mutants appearing in comics, the movies were buried in the 'All' tab on the site and you couldn't really buy any mutant merchandise on the Marvel website.

Suddenly, the X-Men seemed to be slowly disappearing and fans were suspicious.

This was confirmed in a Tumblr Q&A when a fan asked what was going on. Responding, Marvel senior VP of Publishing Tom Brevoort replied:

"If you had two things, and on one you earned 100% of the revenues from the efforts that you put into making it, and the other you earned a much smaller percentage for the same amount of time and effort, you’d be more likely to concentrate more heavily on the first, wouldn’t you?"

The X-Men are now back in Marvel's good graces, but for a period of time Marvel genuinely tried to replace them with the Inhumans. An edict handed down, ostensibly, by Ike Perlmutter.