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Titans of Finance: True Tales of Money & Business #[nn]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis collection gathers the complete run of the acclaimed comic series that humorously explores the lives and exploits of history's most influential financial figures, from ancient moneylenders to modern-day tycoons. Each story blends factual biography with satirical art to reveal the colorful, often outrageous personalities behind the world of high finance.
"The Comic Book Villain" is a gripping true story from Titans of Finance: True Tales of Money & Business #nn (2001), spotlighting the rise and fall of financier Goldinger, whose career spanned Wall Street power, a baseball team, and a media empire built on the promise of financial success. Written by R. Walker and illustrated with sharp, expressive detail by Josh Neufeld—whose distinctive style brings the story’s high-stakes world to life—this issue explores how ambition, risk, and personal turmoil converged in a single, devastating miscalculation. The cover by Josh Neufeld captures the era’s glossy, larger-than-life tone, perfectly framing the tale of a man who once seemed to have it all.
In a real-life corporate showdown that reads like a comic book, Ron Perelman's bold takeover of Marvel Comics sparks a high-stakes battle for control, with Carl Icahn emerging as a formidable rival. As the stakes rise, the boardroom drama unfolds with the unexpected cameo of heroes and villains from the Marvel Universe—Power Man, Daredevil, J. Jonah Jameson, the Thing, Spider-Man, Magneto, Captain America, and the Hulk—watching from the sidelines as real-world money and power collide.
In "The V-Man," Michael Vranos rises through the ranks at Kidder Peabody, leveraging high-stakes mortgage-backed securities to build a fortune—until the firm's collapse is triggered by Joe Jett’s phantom trades and shifting interest rates. As the financial house of cards begins to fall, the story captures the tension between ambition and accountability, with Jack Welch watching the unraveling from the sidelines.
In the high-stakes world of 1997 finance, Victor Niederhoffer—self-proclaimed "Education of a Speculator"—faces the collapse of his empire after a market crash forces him to honor his margin positions. With his fortune evaporating, he finds himself at odds with the very system he once mastered, while George Soros watches from the sidelines, a quiet presence in the storm.
Al Dunlap’s ruthless rise in the world of corporate takeovers is on full display in “Chainsaw!,” a sharp, two-page snapshot of a man who turned financial chaos into personal fortune. With a single day’s move on Sunbeam stock and a calculated assault on Scott Paper, Dunlap proves he’s not just a player—he’s a force.
In "Ask Jay," S. Jay Goldinger, once a rising star in finance known for his advice column and TV appearances, finds his empire crumbling after a risky bet on falling interest rates goes disastrously wrong—leaving investors reeling and his company, Capital Insight, bankrupt. The story traces the high-stakes rise and fall of a man whose fame and fortune were built on confidence, now facing the consequences of a single, fatal miscalculation.
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↩ Reprints Keyhole #2 (1996), Small Press Expo SPX99 [The Expo99 Comic] #[nn] (1998), Keyhole #5 (1998), Keyhole #6 (1998), Expo 2000 #[nn] (2000)
Reprinted in Keyhole #3 (1997)
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