unclear to readers . please help us clarify the article ; suggestions may be found on the talk page . february 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message pow entertainment inc. type public company traded as otcqb pown industry entertainment founded 2001 founder stan lee gill champion arthur lieberman headquarters beverly hills california united states key people stan lee chairman and cco gill champion president and ceo services development revenue 2.38 million fy 2013 1 operating income 198 630 fy 2013 1 net income 392 689 fy 2013 1 total assets 880 224 fy 2013 1 total equity 4 6 million fy 2013 1 number of employees 12 october 2011 website powentertainment.com pow purveyors of wonder entertainment is an american media production company formed in 2001 by gill champion arthur lieberman and former marvel comics editor and publisher stan lee . pow is made up of two companies pow entertainment inc. pow inc. a publicly traded holding corporation ; and its wholly owned subsidiary pow entertainment llc pow llc . 2 pow productions include the 2006 sci fi channel s tv movie stan lee s lightspeed that network s reality television series who wants to be a superhero and the stan lee s mighty 7 media franchise . other productions include the direct to dvd animated features stan lee s mosaic and stan lee presents the condor . contents 1 history 1.1 public corporation 2 production 2.1 upcoming 3 units 4 investors 5 footnotes 6 external links history edit in november 2001 stan lee with gill champion and arthur lieberman formed pow entertainment llc a delaware limited liability company . 2 3 pow set up their offices at the santa monica california mgm hq offices as a first look deal was negotiated in april 2002 by lieberman with metro goldwyn mayer and cheyenne enterprises bruce willis s and producer arnold rifkin s production company . 4 lee created the risqu animated superhero series stripperella for spike tv s the strip animated block which premiered on june 26 2003 . pow has also had a dozen additional feature and television production agreements by july . three of the films were in preproduction nightbird the femizons then with writers cary solomon and chuck konzelman and the double man then under development by training day director antoine fuqua . a production agreement was signed by pow and idiom films for forever man an avenging hero type with a twist . while in that month the company signed with dic entertainment on a tv series production deal starting with stan lee s secret super six about alien super powered teens taught by lee about humanity . the in development hefs superbunnies animated superhero series was announced by lee at comic con 2003 which would feature a villain fighting hugh hefner and playmates . 4 public corporation edit the separate corporation pow entertainment inc. is a holding company created so as to have publicly traded stock . this corporation originated as the delaware corporation megatek legacy systems inc. formed august 17 1998 ; this became alta pacific minerals inc. in 1999 and arturion entertainment inc. in 2002 . 2 by 2004 arturion stockholder were media dynamics inc. owned by valerie barth controlling stockholder and minority stockholder ultravision inc. owned by ron sandman . arturion was a public shell corporation that was used to acquire pow on may 5 2004 with pow members receiving arturion shares to take it public on the over the counter market pink sheets in a reverse merger . arturion changed its name to pow entertainment inc. media dynamics invested 500 000 for 769 250 shares with a subscription for additional shares for 650 000 . 3 in august 2004 he announced a superhero program that would feature ringo starr the former beatle as the lead character . 5 additionally in august of that year lee announced the launch of stan lee s sunday comics . 6 in may 2004 idt entertainment purchased a minority share in pow entertainment in an agreement for exclusive distribution rights to pow s animated dvd properties and joint development of 6 cartoon films . 7 in 2005 the company announced that another animated film that would feature the voice of ringo starr . 8 9 also in early 2005 the company formed a strategic partnership to develop a new mobile channel with mobile streaming pioneer vidiator through vidiator s mobile streaming technology . in 2006 this resulted in an agreement with sprint nextel corp. where the stan lee s pow mobile channel is officially listed as sprint s channel 70 . 10 the channel includes mobisodes with stripperella the accuser and the drifter . citation needed in 2004 an agreement with andrew stevens entertainment group and jeff franklin of fwe inc. pow and lee planned to produce three action movies for the sci fi channel to be aired in 2005 2006 . 11 only one movie lightspeed was completed for scifi and aired july 26 2006 . 12 pow president and ceo champion said in 2005 that lee was creating a new superhero foreverman for a paramount pictures movie in tandem with producer robert evans and idiom films with peter briggs hired to collaborate with lee on the screenplay . 13 in 2005 lee and michelle rodriguez agreed to develop a tigress film based on the conan the barbarian comic book villainess . 14 in 2007 pow started a series of direct to dvd animated films under the stan lee presents banner . citation needed the two releases were mosaic and the condor . 15 pow and walt disney studios agree to a first look deal in june 2007 . 15 the following year the first three titles under that deal were announced nick ratchet blaze and tigress an original concept from the conan villianess . 16 on june 9 2007 a suit was brought against lee pow subsidiary qed entertainment and former stan lee media staff at pow 17 on january 20 2009 judge stephen wilson in los angeles federal court ruled that pow had illegally transferred assets of stan lee media including the drifter and the accuser to pow in violation of a bankruptcy court order . 18 brighton partners and rainmaker animation announced in april 2008 a partnership with pow to produce a cgi film series legion of 5 . 19 that same month virgin comics announced lee would create a line of superhero comics for that company . 20 on december 31 2009 the walt disney company s catalyst investments acquired a 10 % stake in pow for 2.5 million coinciding with its full acquisition of marvel entertainment . 2 21 also disney s silver creek pictures entered into another agreement with pow for first look and consulting services . 2 22 in 2010 pow started reporting to otc markets group and was moved to the over the counter qb otcqb tier market from the pink sheets . 2 in february of that year pow partnered with a squared entertainment a2 and archie comics to create the stan lee comics print and digital line starting with the super seven . 23 on august 5 the reality television series stan lee s superhumans show premiered on the cable channel history . 24 also that month super7 a toy manufacturer sued pow and partners over stan lee comics super seven . 25 late in the year pow and boom studios began publishing three new comic book series soldier zero starborn and the traveler . 26 27 in october guardian media entertainment a partnership of lee slg entertainment and nhl enterprises created hockey themed superheroes called guardians for each of the 30 teams in the national hockey league . the venture includes a graphic novel . 28 29 ricco capital and panda media partners a joint venture of pow and fidelis entertainment formed a partnership magic storm entertainment in june 2011 to produce material for asia . 30 in 2011 lee was writing a live action musical the yin and yang battle of tao . 31 in october lee announced he would partner with 1821 comics on a multimedia imprint for children stan lee s kids universe a move he said addressed the lack of comic books targeted for children ; and that he was collaborating with the company on its futuristic graphic novel romeo & juliet the war by writer max work and artist skan srisuwan . 32 33 in november pow signed an agreement with youtube and vuguru michael eisner s digital studio to start a youtube channel called stan lee s world of heroes . that same month the company signed a deal with eqal to create and launch therealstanlee.com an official site for lee . 34 in may 2012 arthur lieberman chief operating officer and chief counsel of pow died due to lung cancer . 35 also in may pow filed suit for fraud and breach of contract against valerie barth of media dynamics and ron sandman sole director of ultravision inc. claiming it is owed 1.15 million for a three million pow common stock subscription . barth sandman and their corporations countersued . 3 in march 2013 hub network picked up its first work from pow stan lee s mighty 7 animated pilot movie to be aired in early 2014 . 36 on april 5 2013 a pow joint venture with mkc entertainment sl power concerts launched its military friendly stan lee s pow er concert series with country band gloriana at the pacific view events center camp pendleton with future concerts at other military bases and proceeds going to military affiliated charities . 37 38 on june 12 pow and jads international released stan lee signature cologne . 39 legion of 5 was revealed in june to be a live action film at sandman studios affiliated live action label paralight films at the casting stage . 40 arad productions and pow are in early development on a new superhero movie set up at columbia pictures as of november 2013 41 which is revealed in august 2014 to be apollo rising gods living amongst us as it was melded with the red queen author victoria aveyard script eternals . 42 pow formed stan lee global entertainment as a joint venture in 2014 with a hong kong based investment firm 43 ricco media investments limited . ricco media was purchased by focus media network limited on august 20 2015 . 44 pow announced two chinese projects in october 2015 realm superheroine movie the first by stan lee global entertainment and arch alien sci fi movie . 45 disney s second and final project under the first look deal with pow is the zodiac legacy book series with the first book to be released through disney publishing worldwide in january 2015 . 46 however the first look deal agreed to in 2006 and extended in 2009 was allowed to expire as of december 31 2014 . 47 digital domain announced a joint venture company 25 % owned by pow was announced in january 2015 for development production and international distribution of project from either owner . also a part of this deal is the creation of a virtual stan lee . 48 stan lee s lucky man was picked up in march 2015 by sky1 for a 10 episode 1 hour show as a pow coproduction with carnival films for his first uk drama series . 49 a second season uk series was ordered for the show in march 2016 as it was sky1 s highest rated original drama program ever . 50 production edit title year s type production partner s distributor notes stripperella 2003 2004 animated series spike tv stan lee s superhero christmas 000000002004 10 01 0000october 2004 book harper collins 11 4th qtr . 000000002005 01 01 00002005 direct to video lightspeed 000000002006 01 01 00002006 television film fwe picture company sci fi channel tv nu image films who wants to be a superhero 2006