hewed closer to specific issues and graphic novels, which made it harder to wave away the original comic-book creators. While Marvel had long observed a church-and-state separation between the comic-book publisher on the East Coast and Marvel Studios on the West Coast, those boundaries seemed blurrier now that Feige oversaw both divisions. A later Disney series, Hawkeye, drew so heavily from writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja’s award-winning 2012–2015 run on the comic that Fraction, at least, landed a consulting producer credit and a more significant payday.
