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Jack Kirby's copyrights and Steve Ditko's departure from Marvel Comics
Bob Hughes:
Kirby and Ditko didn't create "on the clock". They weren't employees of Marvel. Goodman decided, after he got "screwed" by Joe Simon that he'd be better off not having contracts with his creators. Failing to have contracts, however, leaves him just as much without protection as it does his creators.
Bob Hughes:
Without Kirby, Marvel would be known as the company that went out of business in 1941. Stan Lee never would have been heard of.
Without Kirby, there would have been no Silver Age comics revival because without Challengers, Showcase never would have lasted long enough for the Flash to get his own comic book, DC never would have gone on a teams binge which resulted in buying Blackhawk, creatings Sea Devil, Suicide Squad, Rip Hunter, Cave Carson and .... the Justice League of America.
If Ditko had stayed at Charlton, Captain Atom and the Blue Beetle would probably have become the most successful characters of the sixties.
bminor:
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!!!
B.
josemas:
While it's unfortunate that publishers at Marvel and DC may not have always lived up to any promises that they made to artist and writers who worked for them let's not forget some of the publishers who did do right by the creative people they had working for them.
Archer St. John, by all accounts I have read of him, seems to have been a very honorable man in his dealings with the people who created his comics.
And while Simon and Kirby may have not been treated well by Martin Goodman at Timely in the 1940s they did much better and seem to have been treated fairly in their dealings with Harvey and Crestwood/Prize.
Best
Joe
Bob Hughes:
Kirby even had nice words to say about Jack Liebowitz at DC who apparently did live up to the contract he had with Simon and Kirby.
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