Exactly! It’s the reason Sony only sought rights to Spider-Man and not the entirety of the Marvel catalog. Marvel offered them nearly the entire pie at the time.
Not only that, but when Marvel offered Sony the rest of the catalog, it was absurdly cheap. Something like, give us an extra 20 bucks (slight exaggeration) and you can have ALL our characters, and Sony was still like, nahh, just Spidey, thanks.
It’s always been Spider-Man and by some margin. Why was this even a question?
Exactly! It’s the reason Sony only sought rights to Spider-Man and not the entirety of the Marvel catalog. Marvel offered them nearly the entire pie at the time.
Not only that, but when Marvel offered Sony the rest of the catalog, it was absurdly cheap. Something like, give us an extra 20 bucks (slight exaggeration) and you can have ALL our characters, and Sony was still like, nahh, just Spidey, thanks.