{"id":433922,"date":"2026-05-18T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433922\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:47:08","slug":"marvel-sets-new-leadership-for-comics-and-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433922\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Sets New Leadership for Comics and Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad Winderbaum is the Emmy Award-winning Head of Marvel Television and Marvel Animation, overseeing Marvel\u2019s diverse slate of live-action and animated series for Disney+. He has served as an executive producer on all Marvel Studios shows including Hawkeye<\/a>, Loki<\/a> season 2, Agatha: All Along<\/a>, Daredevil: Born Again<\/a>, X-Men \u201997<\/a>, and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man<\/a>. Winderbaum joined Marvel Studios during the production of the company\u2019s first theatrical release, Iron Man<\/a>, going on to become an executive producer on Thor: Ragnarok<\/a> and Black Widow<\/a>.\u00a0C.B. Cebulski, Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics, will report to Winderbaum.<\/p>\n

David Abdo is a strategic and\u00a0results-focused executive with digital expertise and 20+ years of\u00a0leadership experience\u00a0transforming and building media businesses. Abdo was most recently General Manager, Disney Music Group, responsible for the day-to-day management of Disney\u2019s global music division. In that role, he led significant expansion in the division\u2019s revenue, resources, and output, achieving multiple record-breaking profit years.<\/p>\n

Regarding Buckley’s departure announcement, Feige said, “From events like\u00a0Civil War,<\/a> Secret Wars,<\/a> X-Men: Age of Krakoa<\/a>,\u00a0and the soon to be released Marvel Midnight\u00a0<\/a>imprint,\u00a0to the expansion into video games, television, animation, and more, Marvel\u2019s influence on popular culture expanded under Dan\u2019s leadership, bringing our characters and stories to new fans around the world.\u00a0Dan has left a lasting mark on Marvel\u2019s legacy and on the comics industry, and I\u2019m deeply grateful to him and pleased we will have his full support through this transition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Winderbaum is the Emmy Award-winning Head of Marvel Television and Marvel Animation, overseeing Marvel\u2019s diverse slate of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-433922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}