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Iger is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Bob Iger (born 1951), American businessman, chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company * Fred Iger (1924–2015), American comic book publisher * Jerry Iger (1903–1990), American cartoonist See also * Eisner & Iger Eisner & Iger was a comic book packager that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium during the late-1930s and 1940s, a period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. Founded by Will Eisner and Jerry Ige ..., former comic book "packager" * IGER, the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences {{surname, Iger ...
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Bob Iger
Robert Alan Iger (; born February 10, 1951) is an American media executive who is chief executive officer (CEO) of the Walt Disney Company. He previously was the president of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) between 1994 and 1995 and president and chief operating officer (COO) of Capital Cities/ABC, from 1995 until its acquisition by Disney in 1996. Iger was named president of Disney in 2000 and succeeded Michael Eisner as CEO in 2005, until his contract expired in 2020. He then was executive chairman until his formal retirement from the company on December 31, 2021. After his exit from the company, Iger continued as an advisor to his successor. However, at the request of Disney's board of directors, Iger returned to Disney as CEO on November 20, 2022, following the unscheduled and immediate dismissal of his appointed successor, Bob Chapek. Iger's 2023 pay package included a base salary of $865,385, stock awards of $16.1 million, $10 million in stock option awards, $2 ...
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Eisner & Iger
Eisner & Iger was a comic book packager that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium during the late-1930s and 1940s, a period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. Founded by Will Eisner and Jerry Iger, many of comic books' most significant creators, including Jack Kirby, entered the field through its doors. Eisner & Iger existed from 1936 to 1939. The company, formally titled the Eisner and Iger Studio, was also known as Syndicated Features Corporation. Eisner, in a 1997 interview, referred to the company as both "Eisner & Iger" and the "Art Syndication Company". In addition to comic books, the company also sold color comic strips, such as ''Adventures of the Red Mask'' and ''Pop's Night Out'', to newspapers. After Eisner left in late 1939/early 1940, Iger would continue to package comics as the S. M. Iger Studio, eventually bringing on a new partner, Ruth Roche. The S. M. Iger Studio operated through 1961. Origin Eisner & Iger was ...
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Jerry Iger
Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger (; August 22, 1903 – September 5, 1990) was an American cartoonist and art-studio entrepreneur. With business partner Will Eisner, he co-founded Eisner & Iger, a comic book packager that produced comics on demand for new publishers during the late-1930s and 1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books. Iger, no relation to comic-book publisher Fred Iger, was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009. Biography Early life and career Jerry Iger was born in New York City, to Austrian-Jewish parents Rosa and Jacob Iger. He was raised in Idabel, Oklahoma, near the Choctaw Indian reservation.Adelman, p. 351. The youngest of four children of a peddler who had settled in what was then the pre-statehood Indian Territory, Iger contracted polio as a child and was cared for by his mother. Iger had two sisters,Adelman, p. 353 and a brother, Joe, whose son Arthur Iger (b. 1926) would become the father of Th ...
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Fred Iger
Frederick Hillel Iger (; July 12, 1924 – April 10, 2015) was an American comic book publisher, associated for many years with the media figure Harry Donenfeld. (Iger's first marriage was to Donenfeld's daughter, and his second marriage was to Donenfeld's ex-daughter-in-law.) Iger was an owner of American Comics Group from 1943 to 1967, and co-owner of National Periodical Publications (otherwise known as DC Comics) from 1948–1961. Iger is not known to be related to pioneering comic book packager Jerry Iger. Biography Early career Iger started out as a radio producer, working with Robert Maxwell from c. 1939 to 1941, including on '' The Adventures of Superman'' radio show. Sangor Studio and American Comics Group In 1940 Iger joined Benjamin W. Sangor's "Sangor Shop" until 1943. (Harry Donenfeld was co-owner of the studio during this period as well, up until the early 1960s, though he was severely incapacitated and out of the business after an accident in 1962). Sangor st ...
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