Marvel Superheroes Becoming More Heroic

Evildoing baddies have no place in the Magic Kingdom, and so it comes as quite a relief that Marvel Entertainment, which Disney acquired last month for $4 billion, just happens to be giving its superheroes an attitude adjustment: out with the pessimistic plotting, in with the swashbuckling heroics! This spring will see the dawn of a new “heroic age” in Marvel Comics, as a relaunched Avengers reunites a suddenly chummy Iron Man, Captain America (back from the dead!), and Thor.