Comeback Facts

Bo Jackson destroyed his left hip in the 1991 NFL playoffs and was told he would never play again. Doctors replaced the joint with a prosthetic hip. Eighteen months later he pinch-hit for the Chicago White Sox - took the first pitch for a strike, then drove the next one over the right-field wall. All 42,775 fans at Comiskey Park rose to their feet. He hit 16 home runs that season and won AL Comeback Player of the Year.

Marvel filed for bankruptcy in 1996 and sold Spider-Man to Sony and the X-Men to Fox. Spider-Man alone grossed $1.6 billion in films - Marvel got $62 million. Marvel kept the characters nobody wanted: Iron Man, Captain America, the Avengers. Iron Man made $585 million in 2008. Disney bought it all for $4.24 billion the following year.