Originally Posted by
Lee
What else does Marvel publish? To put things into perspective, Shueisha also publishes pop culture and fashion magazines. They are a significantly bigger publisher than Marvel Comics.
This doesn't make sense. If a Japanese manga publisher wants to do something with Spider-Man then they license the character from Marvel. This has happened a few times over the years, recently with Spider-Man: Fake Red, which was cancelled because it underperformed.
American Dragon Ball comics would be missing the point. The audience would reject it. The audience for Dragon Ball wants translations of the original Japanese manga, not a bunch of Americans with no connection to Toriyama's work doing their own versions.
Shueisha and the other major manga publishers wouldn't get anything out of being bought out by Disney and merged with Marvel. Viz is the biggest comic publisher in North America, and is co-owned by Japanese publishers Shueisha and Shogakukan, which are both part of the Hitotsubashi Group. They already have a healthy business in the American market. Similarly, Kodansha already has Kodansha USA.