Overview

• Webtoon and The Walt Disney Company have signed a multiyear partnership to bring about 100 Disney-owned comics to Webtoon’s English app, with financial terms undisclosed but hailed by Disney as one of its largest publishing deals.
• The initial slate will debut later in August with The Amazing Spider-Man, followed by Avengers, Star Wars, Alien and As Old as Time: A Twisted Tale.
• The project includes vertical-scroll reformats of legacy series alongside newly developed original webcomics produced under Disney’s creative oversight without the use of generative AI.
• Disney titles will appear in a dedicated section on Webtoon’s freemium platform, where first episodes are free and subsequent chapters unlock via in-app coin purchases.
• Webtoon’s global monthly active users number around 150–155 million and shares jumped about 28% after-hours upon the announcement during the company’s Q2 earnings release.