Disney boss Bob Iger unceremoniously sacked Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter for his redundant management of the company, not as retribution for leading a proxy war against the Mouse House.
In an interview with Time published on Thursday, Disney's returning CEO claimed turfing out Perlmutter from a company he had once owned should not be misconstrued as payback for mounting a boardroom challenge via an affiliated activist investor Nelson Peltz.
