Yeah, but not seriously. Cannon Films and Golan/Globus had the rights to Marvel's characters in the 80's, if you can believe it.
That's the studio that did all those Missing In Action films with Chuck Norris, along with a lot of other Chuck Norris films like The Delta Force.
They also did all the Death Wish sequels, and a bunch of other Charles Bronson films, Enter The Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, American Ninja, The Punisher, Masters of the Universe, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, Jean Claude Van-Damme's early films like Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Cyborg, etc. You name the piece of crap, they did it in the 80's.
They also did three Marvel films - The Punisher, Captain America, and Fantastic Four. Punisher and Captain America went straight to video without a theatrical release, and Fantastic Four was so bad it wasn't realeased at all.
Cannon was going to make a Spider-Man film, but their contract said the rights would revert back to Marvel if they didn't make a film by 1990. Cannon didn't make the film and went bankrupt by 1990, thank goodness.
I remember hearing about the Wolverine movie back in the mid-1990's. Getting comic book movies made back then was a real pain.