Marvel's Isaac Perlmutter came in at number five on a list of the American CEOs who realized the biggest gains from exercising stock options in 2006.  Not surprisingly, oil executive Ray Irani of Occidental Petroleum topped the list with $270.2 million total that dwarfed Perlmutter's $97.4 million.  Other CEOs who ranked ahead of Perlmutter included Fidelity National Financial's William P. Foley ($154.1), Dell Computers' Michael Dell ($149.5 million) and Chesapeake Energy Corps.' Aubrey McClendon ($102.5 million).

So far it appears that though he exercised his stock options, Perlmutter has not sold his shares.  Back in 2004 during a previous Spider-Man year, Perlmutter sold 4 million shares and realized a tidy $77 million by unloading some 12% of his Marvel stock just prior to the release of the film (see 'Marvel Stock Shrugs Off Insider Sales').