New York, like Washengton, is the most important city in the United States, and if Washengton is the political center of the United States, then New York is the economic center of the United States. And it is also the economic center of Western society.

People who have never been to the United States will think that the United States is full of megacities, and every state has super urban agglomerations like the capital, the magic capital, and the South Bay.

In fact, New York is the only megacity in the true sense of the word, and even the Watsington District, the capital of the United States, is not a super-large city, but an area formed by the combination of a large number of administrative districts. The population density is not as high as that of New York, the capital of China, and the magic capital.

There are many reasons for this, such as the land area of the United States is about the same as ours, but the population is only one-fifth of our population, plus most of the land of the United States is suitable for human habitation of plains and hilly areas, far more than China, which is like more than half of China's territory is plateaus, deserts, Gobi and other areas that are not suitable for human habitation.

Because of the large number of places to live, coupled with the development of the American highway system and aviation system, as well as the Americans' yearning for a free life, a large number of Americans take the initiative to live in the countryside and are unwilling to crowd in the cities. As a result, many cities in the United States have very few people, only tens of thousands. For example, Cupertino in Silicon Valley, where Lei Weidong has been, although there are a large number of technology companies, the city looks smaller than an ordinary county town in Lei Weidong's previous life.

Of course, because New York is the financial, cultural, and entertainment center of the world, so many people live, and New York is a very fast-paced city, where the pace of life is very fast, a bit like Japan.

The most famous place in New York is Wall Street, which is notorious for the future, where the financial oligarchy controls the world's economy, crushing emerging economies such as Japan and the European Union, and in the 21st century, there are many financial traps that have directly choked the whole world. Plundered a lot of wealth.

Of course, Lei Weidong's target is not Wall Street, although Lei Weidong is now worth a little, but compared with Wall Street predators, Lei Weidong is not even a shrimp.

Around New York, there are large toy centers such as Tyco and Fisherprice, and not too far to the north there is also the prototype producer of Transformers, Hasbro. However, Lei Weidong's first stop in New York was not a toy company, but a comic book publishing house.

Lei Weidong visited the famous Marvel Comics company, which is very famous in Marvel Comics in the United States, and the most famous series of Marvel Comics are "Fantastic Four", "Spider-Man", "Hulk", "Iron Man", "Daredevil Man", "Captain America" and "X-Men" and other comics.

The company has more than 8,000 comic book characters such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor Thor, Hulk, Wolverine, Daredevil Man, Ghost Rider, Ant-Man and superhero teams such as Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Since the 1960s, it has been one of the two largest comic book companies in the United States, along with DC Comics. In Lei Weidong's previous life, at the end of 2008, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4.24 billion, taking ownership of most of the comic book characters. In September 2010, Marvel announced its official Chinese name as "Marvel".

And the reason why Lei Weidong is looking for Marvel Comics instead of DC Comics is not only because DC Comics has been acquired by Warner, but also because Lei Weidong wants to deal with Stan Lee, the legend of Marvel Comics.

Stan Lee was born on December 28, 1922 in New York, USA, and is a comic book creator, actor, and screenwriter. In 1941, Stanley's first work was published, the third in the Captain America comic series.

Beginning in November 1961, with the assistance of his partner cartoonist Jack Bryant, he created comic book characters such as "Fantastic Four", "Spider-Man", "Iron Man", "Thor Thor", "Hulk", "X-Men", "Doctor Strange" and "Daredevil ".

In 1972, Stan Lee became the publisher and chairman of Marvel Comics, and in 1998, he left Marvel Comics. At the end of the 90s of the 20th century, Stan Lee founded the company "Stan Lee Media", but this company went bankrupt in 2001. In 2002, he co-founded POW! Entertainment companies

It can be said that Stan Lee is a veteran of the American comic book industry, and his heroes are close comrades-in-arms who have grown up with countless Americans, including "X-Men", "Spider-Man", "Fantastic Four", "Hulk", etc., and his achievements have become an important part of American culture.

More than 90% of the company's most famous characters have been created by him, and his comics have been printed in more than 75 countries and 25 different languages in more than 2 billion copies.

Stan Lee blends soap operas, humor, moral dilemmas, and politics into his comics to achieve the "sense of reality" he seeks.

In comics, Stan Lee also likes to use complex words such as trisyllabic or polysyllabic words that are not commonly found in everyday language to encourage children to learn new vocabulary.

Stan Lee's heroes have a bad temper and vanity, but also depression and greed like ordinary people, they quarrel with each other, they also worry about bills like mortals, their bodies are not iron, and they occasionally contract a minor illness, so they can be said to be civilian heroes.

It can be said that Stan Lee is the soul of Marvel Comics, and as long as Lei Weidong deals with him well, it is easy to buy Marvel Comics in the future, you must know that in the 90s, after investors withdrew from the American comic industry, the entire industry was in a state of decline, and even Marvel Comics filed for bankruptcy protection.

Lei Weidong would have bought it as long as he came to Marvel with a check at that time, and you must know that in the 21st century, Hollywood comic book adaptations are rampant, and when it comes, "Fantastic Four", "Spider-Man", "Hulk", "Iron Man" and "Transformers" are all dazzling mountains of gold.

Of course, there is another reason why Lei Weidong found a comic club, that is, Lei Weidong doesn't remember the storyline of Transformers very clearly, that is, he doesn't remember much about the animation, there is no way that the popularity of "Transformers" in his previous life was in the 80s, and Lei Weidong was just in elementary school at the time, and his family conditions were not very good, so he had no pocket money to buy comic books.

In his previous life, Lei Weidong had only read two copies of the "Transformers" comics, and he still watched them with his classmates. As for the cartoons, I don't watch much.,When I was a child, I watched it tightly at home.,In addition to studying, it's studying.,There's only a weekend break.,It's usually hard to see cartoons.。

And the Xu sisters are girls after all, and comics like Transformers have a natural weakness in story creation.

In addition, Lei Weidong doesn't expect the "Transformers" comics to make money, he just wants to promote "Transformers" as soon as possible. It's good to sell toys, after all, comic book merchandise toys like "Transformers" are the most profitable.

Therefore, Lei Weidong gave up the practice of publishing "Transformers" independently in the United States, and instead cooperated with comic book clubs.

Of course, in order to facilitate negotiations, Lei Weidong brought an American lawyer Robert in addition to Chen Dazhuang.

He is a lawyer with several years of experience in the American law firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP ("Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP"), because he is not very well-known and the price is not too expensive, and Lei Weidong values most that this is one of the oldest law firms in the United States, since it opened in New York City in 1792, it has provided legal services for many well-known institutions in the United States and around the world for nearly 200 years. And the reputation is particularly good, and it is very responsible for customers.

As the chairman of Marvel Comics, Stan Lee has a keen sense of comics, and with Stan Lee's old way, he can see the broad market of "Transformers".

Of course, it is impossible to find Stan Lee directly, but it is enough to find someone to introduce him, during this time Apple computers are in a mess in the United States, Lei Weidong came to visit as a major shareholder of Apple, and with the introduction of Willade Law Firm, Lei Weidong easily entered Stan Lee's office and met this legend in the comic industry.