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The deal brings about 100 titles from Disney’s extensive comic catalog to Webtoon’s 80 million monthly users, including new original series and vertical-scroll format adaptations.
- On August 13, 2025, The Walt Disney Company signed a deal to bring about 100 Disney comics titles—featuring Marvel, Star Wars, and more—to a dedicated section of the Webtoon English-language app.
- With over 80 million monthly active users, Disney evaluated multiple platforms and chose Webtoon as the clear leader.
- Featuring a mix of new and retooled content, existing comics and graphic novels will be reformatted to fit Webtoon’s vertical-scrolling format, with free episodes and chapters unlockable using Webtoon Coins.
- On-the-Go comic book readers will soon explore Disney’s characters via Webtoon’s app, gaining access to about 100 titles that enhance digital comic accessibility.
- Later this year, about 100 titles will drop onto the Webtoon app, with new original content in development and promotion at October 9-12's New York Comic Con.
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Comic lovers are happy. It has cost a year of negotiations, but finally Disney and the Webcoon digital comic platform have sealed an agreement that will allow the Korean-American website to incorporate into its catalog about one hundred titles from Disney, Marvel, 20th Century Studios and Star Wars. The announcement has caused the company's actions to shoot around 50% in pre-opening operations on Wall Street.A webtoon is a type of digital comic …
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Kyung-yoon = Stories that were more familiar as Hollywood movies such as 'Avengers', 'Star Wars', and 'Spiderman' are being reborn as webtoons.
Disney Inks Webtoon Deal to Bring 100 Titles Featuring Characters From Marvel, Star Wars and More to Webcomics App
Spider-Man, Captain America, Darth Vader, Beauty and the Beast, and more from Disney’s intellectual-property treasure chest are coming to Webtoon — with about 100 titles from the Mouse House set to hit the popular webcomics app over the next several years. The deal between Webtoon Entertainment and Disney spans webcomics featuring iconic characters from Disney, Marvel, 20th Century Studios and Star Wars. Those will include existing comics and …
[Digital Daily Reporter Jo Yoon-jung] Naver Webtoon's parent company, Webtoon Entertainment, announced a collaboration with The Walt Disney Company (hereafter, Disney), sending its stock price soaring by over 80%. On the 13th (local time), Webtoon Entertainment's stock price closed at $16.96 on the New York Stock Exchange, up 81.2% from the previous trading day. This is believed to be due to the announcement of a global content partnership with …
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