June 28, 2011

Will Dectvite Comics have to start all over again?


Hey comic loving fans,
I was earlier last night finding out about something related to a BIG legal deal going on between D.C. (better known as Detective Comics) whom happens, to have a copyright issue with true creators of their comic Icon know as SUPERMAN. Or rather their living survivors, so the debate over who created the "S" MAN goes on. Here are the names to remember most related to "The Man of Steel" Joe & Jerry these two gents at the ages of seventeen & eighteen came up with a comic book idea that would change the world forever
, called Superman.Yet before coming up with a the character which we all known and love today did you know that originally Superman was convinced as a villain? it's true, while trying sell short stories to science fiction magazines in 1932 Joe Shuster who illustrated the story seen here, in which in the tale a ordinary fellow by the name Bill Dunn, is chosen at random by a mad scientist Ernest Smalley to partake in a unknown experiment. The experiment gives Dunn extraordinary powers so he start to go mad and kills the scientist and attempts to conquer the planet with his power. By the end of the tale Dunn realizes he is a forgotten vagrant once more in another random breadline in which is similar to where Smalley first found him. This appeared in the third issue out of five that Shuster and Seigeal made from a copyright Shuster made called Science Fiction Fanzine Science Fiction: The Advance guard of Furture Civilization. It was six years later when Seigeal tried making a hero out of the name instead and sold it with them (he & Shuster still maintaining control over the true copyright of the origin and Lois Lane) to then National Periodicals in nineteen thirty seven who saw nothing in it till

, April the following year. For many years after selling the character because of a clause in the contract neither Seigeal or Shuster could ever get their portions back of the character even when both were still living Shuster died in a nursing home in the spring of nineteen ninety two (without any heirs but...I come back in a minute to how it will work for Shuster) Seigeal happen to have heirs and in t
he earlier part of last year to reclaim the full rights to their father's work if some live action production wasn't in the works by this past summer apparently. So how can the artist Shuster reclaim his rights you are wanting to know huh? well he has a nephew that will be able to claim them in the next few years because of his residing in his late uncle's estate.
So all in all what does this mean for Detective Comics themselves?, How much of the guy with the "BIG RED and YELL
OW S" do they get to keep if anything at all?, well over the course of seventy three years of chronological history they came up with these weaknesses that he can't fight against most notability fragments from his own planet that come in varying colors known as Krytponite although Jerry Seigeal came up with it in a nineteen forties story entitled: "The K-metal from Krypton" yet it was NEVER published. Another part that D.C. can lay claim to is the Man of steel can't fight anything magical powered, They gave him flight where Seigeal and Shuster only let him leap tall buildings, and as for a great nemesis they made a great one with the human seen here,
better known as Lex Luthor. When I had heard this tonight the person I was talking to had said that whatever happens it will start to take affect in later August of this year. What I brought up to him was did he happen to know which way D.C. was planning on going story wise of course he only told me he wasn't truly sure even through unlike me I like mostly Marvel as my top publisher of comics from time to time he seems to like Detective Comics as top dog in publishing, yet before I let you all go I forgot to say Marvel's co-creator of their vast universe was given a chance to play in the D.C. universe with his take on their leading titles

,in two thousand and two to two thousand and three.
So I guess what I am getting at is it looks like Detective Comics may loose the first superhero to start them off in the first place, yet I'm sure they have many options of where they will take their "NEW universe" whether they put a "NEW SPIN on Superman or acknowledge the rightful creators of the character in print from now on", although I do have a feeling it will be a "NEW SPIN" so they can use the character the way they want to.

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