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Spider-Man reimagined in the Grid in the variant cover of Amazing Spider-Man #651.
Marvel Entertainment, LLC, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company. Formerly a comic book publishing giant, the company has branched out into other media with divisions devoted to movie production, television, and toys. The company has published several comics for the TRON franchise.
On August 31, 2009, the Walt Disney Company announced a deal to acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4.24 billion USD, with Marvel shareholders to receive $30 and about 0.745 Disney shares for each share of Marvel they own. The voting occurred on December 31, 2009 and the merger was approved.[1] The acquisition of Marvel was finalized hours after the shareholder voted, therefore, giving Disney full ownership of Marvel Entertainment. The company was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange under its ticker symbol (MVL), due to the closing of the deal.
Marvel Comics published a two-issue miniseries titled TRON: Betrayal, from October – November 2010. Announced in July 2010, the miniseries covers the events between TRON and TRON: Legacy and serves as a tie-in to the latter.[2][3] The comic was written by Jai Nitz and illustrated by Andie Tong.
In November 2010, Marvel Comics announced TRON variant covers for their comic issues releasing that month to promote TRON: Legacy, created by artists Mark Brooks and Brandon Peterson. The variant covers depict various Marvel characters in the style of the TRON franchise.[4]
In January 2011, Marvel released a two-issue comic book adaptation of the original 1982 film, titled TRON: Original Movie Adaptation. The comic was written by Peter David with art by Mirco Pierfederici.[5][6]
Marvel collected TRON: Betrayal and TRON: Original Movie Adaptation into a single trade paperback titled TRON: Download, which was released on September 3, 2025.[7] It includes cover inks for TRON: Betrayal #1–2 by artist Salvador Larroca, a script for TRON: Original Movie Adaptation #1, and cover inks for pages 29–30 of TRON: Original Movie Adaptation #1 and pages 30–31 of #2 by Pierfederici.
In September 2025, Marvel announced TRON: Ares variant covers for their October issues to promote the release of the film TRON: Ares, making it the second time Marvel has made variant covers inspired by the TRON franchise.[8]
TRON: Download trade paperback cover, taken from the cover of TRON: Betrayal issue #2.
TRON: Download trade paperback back cover taken from the cover of TRON: Original Movie Adaptation issue #2.
Trivia[]
In TRON: Betrayal #2, a young Sam Flynn can be seen wearing a T-shirt with Spider-Man on it.
TheInvincible Iron Man #33 and The Amazing Spider-Man #651 variant covers as seen in Roy Kleinberg's basement lair in TRON: The Next Day.
Four of the Marvel TRON variant covers - The Amazing Spider-Man, Wolverine, Thor, and The Invincible Iron Man - can be seen on the wall of Roy Kleinberg's basement lair in TRON: The Next Day, making the variants an in-universe phenomenon as well.
Both TRON and Marvel characters appear in the sandbox toys-to-life video game Disney Infinity.
