bookofdoomed
asked:
Re: Reprints of licensed characters: Can you not (if it was economically viable) reprint stories with names changed? I know DC did that decades ago. Does Marvel not own the stories and art and characters created for the books?

It’s a bit more complicated than that, especially when you get into Shang Chi, which lifted whole swaths of supporting characters from the Fu Manchu books. You’d wind up doing so much work that it’s really not worth it–and the people who want that material would likely be upset that you had to change it that much. Lose-Lose.