Oscorp was taken over by Allan Chemical, and they merged to form Alchemax. So Norman is no longer an industrialist.
Oscorp was taken over by Allan Chemical, and they merged to form Alchemax. So Norman is no longer an industrialist.
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The problem of estimating the wealth of heads of state is that people tend to conflate the wealth of the nation, its resources and its GDP, with the personal wealth of the ruler. That's a very slippery and dodgy thing to do, especially when you consider that T'Challa, Namor, and Doom's regimes are so different.
T'Challa for instance rules Wakanda, which for the long time is a kind of federalized kingdom where different tribes have some autonomy and independence (at least in the case of Don McGregor's Panther's Rage), and in more recent times, a constitutional monarchy with a devolved monarchy. In that situation, I don't think it's the case that T'Challa himself owns Vibranium. Vibranium is clearly owned by the state, and Vibranium mines are nationalized but you can't necessarily say that that Vibranium is the personal property of the line of King T'Challa and King T'Chaka.
Namor is likewise a ruler of Atlantis which has multiple royal families jockeying for power. So is the wealth of power the wealth of Namor?
In the case of an absolute dictator like Doom, the wealth of the state tends to be equated with the wealth of the monarch. And since Doom created a centralized dictatorship where he's basically not answerable to anyone, that's more understandable since Doom is very much an "I am the state" kind of guy. But at the same time, Doom is an active monarch who devotes a lot of money and time to public works, defense and so on. So is that his own money he's spending or the state's?
Won't last long...
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Again, since he was supposed to be DEAD, Namor wasn't accessing his kingdom's wealth, nor whatever established "personal" wealth he had, when he created Oracle, a Wall Street company capable of taking over Rand Meachum, and facing off against Roxxon. Hence, he can draw an immense amount of wealth from THE OCEAN, not from Atlantis.
Namor the Sub-Mariner, Marvel's oldest character, will have been published for 85 years in 2024. So where's my GOOD Namor anniversary ongoing, Marvel?
Okay now that's some hard data. But from what you say, Namor's wealth derives from his American citizenship and his assets are typical of American capitalism. So that makes him rich and wealthy certainly and among the Marvel billionaries. But I don't know if that puts him in Stark territory.
I'd say Namor's Oracle (which I haven't heard about lately) is a Fortune 500 company in the top list but would be say in the top 300 or 200, depending on how Danny Rand's company is valued.
No. I never said that. I only brought up Oracle to show that Namor has enough wealth laying around in the ocean, he can easily create a top corporation. And Namor isn't an American citizen. Nor is the wealth of the oceans based on American capitalism. For a few years, in the 1990s, Namor did attempt to use his corporation (Oracle) to clean up the environment. He also used Oracle to fund Heroes For Hire. But he sold Oracle in the late 1990s to Stark Fujiwara at the end of Ostrander's Heroes for Hire.
Again, Namor's wealth is from the oceans. If he wants something, he can easily gather enough from the oceans to buy whatever he wants. Like a movie studio. I'd forgotten he'd bought one back in FF 9.
Namor the Sub-Mariner, Marvel's oldest character, will have been published for 85 years in 2024. So where's my GOOD Namor anniversary ongoing, Marvel?
Marc Spector is also a billionaire, I believe. He finances his gadgets and vehicles through Spectorcorp, which deals in the industry of fine art.
Dwayne Taylor made reference to his billion dollar company in that last contest of champions book. even after being presumed dead, he's loaded.
Xavier was always megarich, coming from old colonial era money (that's how he got all his toys). The latest value is $3 billion (per Fantomex), but I would put it higher, tbh.
Not that it proves much, but back in the 80s Marvel RPG, Xavier and Angel had higher resources than Tony Stark.
Keep in mind that in the 80s, there were only about a dozen billionaires in the US. Today, there are hundreds.
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Namor the Sub-Mariner, Marvel's oldest character, will have been published for 85 years in 2024. So where's my GOOD Namor anniversary ongoing, Marvel?
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How much is a guy like Sinister worth? Or does he just take everything for his experiments and technology??
Namor the Sub-Mariner, Marvel's oldest character, will have been published for 85 years in 2024. So where's my GOOD Namor anniversary ongoing, Marvel?