Stan Lee's Missing Spider-Man Profits

When Spider-Man hit theaters in 2002, it earned more than $800 million worldwide and became one of the biggest comic-book movies of its era. Marvel figure Stan Lee had a contract that promised him 10 percent of the net profits from projects based on his characters, which should have made the film’s success especially valuable. Instead, the producers claimed the movie had made no net profit and became a famous example of Hollywood accounting.

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