Overview
- Employees were told at a town hall on Thursday that Marvel’s Comics & Franchise publishing division will move from Midtown Manhattan to Disney’s Burbank headquarters.
- The company asked just over 100 New York–based staff to relocate by July 2027 and said it will begin orientation and offer relocation assistance during the yearlong transition.
- Stephen Wacker has been named Marvel’s new editor-in-chief and will join in late July, while current EIC C. B. Cebulski will move to Japan to lead the company’s Asia Originals manga and graphic-fiction efforts.
- Marvel framed the consolidation as a way to place comic creators beside film, television and animation teams so ideas can move more easily between comics and screen projects, and to strengthen its publishing line.
- The move ends nearly 90 years of Marvel’s New York headquarters and follows recent corporate reshuffling and weaker comics-market results, a shift that could change hire and collaboration patterns for creators and influence future tie-ins with the MCU.