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Superman Copyright Dispute Appeal Ruling In Favor Of DC Comics – Thursday Trending Topics

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Mark Seifert

The ongoing dispute over the rights to Superman has taken an apparently critical turn; another step in this dispute between the Siegal estate, and Warner Bros and DC Comics: The US Appeal courts have ruled in favour of Warner Bros and …

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DC Wins Big Against Estate Of Jerry Siegel Over Ownership Of Superman

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Rich Johnston

“I can’t stand to look at a Superman comic book. It makes me physically ill. I love Superman, and yet, in my mind, he’s been twisted around into some kind of alien thing.” – Jerry Siegel The US Appeal courts …

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Warner Bros. Win In Shuster Family Superman Case – UPDATED With Full Ruling

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Now with full ruling.

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When Jerry Siegel Wrote To Aardvark-Vanaheim Looking For A Publisher For Redd Death And Life-Queen, Zongolla The Ultroid, Doomsday-Y-Y Komics, Space Rock Kid And Ricky Robot

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Dave Sim has been sharing all manner of items planned to go into the Digital Cerebus collections. This morning we received a motherlode of Cerebus sketches, mostly by Dave Sim (below) but also one from Barry Windsor Smith (above). There …

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New Twist In The Fight For Superman: $600,000 For Shuster’s Half?

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Mark Seifert

Daniel Best, 20th Century Danny Boy, who is the go-to guy for following this and many other comic-related legal battles, reports today that there’s a surprising new development in the fight to control Superman.  Ahead of the anticipated November 2013 …

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Now Grant Morrison Tackles DC, Siegel And Shuster In Action Comics?

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Rich Johnston

It’s all going a bit meta. The other week, Joe Michael Straczynski spoke to Aint It Cool News and said, talking about Before Watchmen. But how is it any more wrong than the way any comics creators were treated, especially …

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The Check That Bought Superman For $130 Sells At Auction For $160,000

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Mark Seifert

The check used by Detective Comics, Inc (the company which was to become DC Comics) to buy the rights for Superman from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster  for $130 on March 1, 1938 has just sold at auction from comics & related collectable …

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For Sale At Auction: The Check That Bought Superman

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Mark Seifert

In October 2011, the comics industry was stunned by the news that an unimaginably important artifact of our history had surfaced nearly 75 years after it had been issued:  The check used by Detective Comics, Inc (the company which was to become …

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Friday Trending Topics: Revisiting The Strange Visitor From Another Planet

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Mark Seifert

Rich nails it in his post on what makes New 52 Action Comics #5 so potentially interesting. Action Comics volume 1 number 1 page 1 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster is the big bang of the comic book multiverse. …

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The First Comic To Break The $2 Million Barrier: Nicolas Cage Action Comics 1 Sells For Record $2,161,000

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Mark Seifert

It has become the most famous individual copy of any comic book in the world.  And now, the Nicolas Cage copy of Action Comics #1, graded CGC 9.0 and the best copy ever evaluated by the industry’s third-party grading service …

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The Stock Exchange – Selling Superman For Super Dollars

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Bleeding Cool Staff Writer

By the end of the day today, one of the most impressive Superman collections assembled in one auction will close, with the highlight being an much discussed Action Comics #1, graded 9.0 by CGC, making it the highest graded copy …

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Superman, DC Comics v. Pacific Pictures Corp, And The Toberoff Timeline

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Mark Seifert

Like many comic book fans, I’ve been following the legal conflicts of recent years over the ownership of some of our favorite characters with a mixture of interest and concern. Our history is important to us in comics — in …

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Monday Trending Topics: The $130 Superman Line Item

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Mark Seifert

The check that DC Comics used to buy Superman has to be one of my favorite bits of comic history to surface in quite some time. I have a hunch we’ll be hearing learning more about this in the days …

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Deal Of The Century: The Check That DC Comics Used To Buy Superman

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Mark Seifert

It has long been part of the record of comic book history that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster sold the rights for Superman to Detective Comics, Inc (the company which was to become DC Comics, of course) for $130. Here …

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Up For Auction: Jerry Siegel’s Hair

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Mark Seifert

We’ve mentioned high-end comic book auction house Comic Connect a number of times on BC, primarily because there have been four comic books in the world to break the million-dollar barrier, and they’ve sold three of them (and have an …

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Action Comics #1 CGC 6.5 Sells For $625,000

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Mark Seifert

An Action Comics #1 CGC 6.5 has sold this week for $625,000 at Comiclink.  I almost stuck a Volume 1 in that title, but you can insert your own Action 1′s will soon be common due to the DC relaunch/renumbering comment …

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