1999 Comic Book News Archives
September 3, 1999: Super-Custody Battle!
Look up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a Copyright Custody Battle! For more than 60 years, Superman could not be stopped, not even by Kryptonite. But now the last son of Krypton, an orphan rocketed to Earth, is torn between the family of one of his creators and publisher DC Comics in a super-battle over his copyright.DC Comics stands to lose half the rights to Superman due to documents filed in the U.S. Copyright Office by heirs of the late Superman creator Jerry Siegel. His wife, Joanne (the first model for Lois Lane) and daughter, Laura Siegel Larson, revoked the transfer of copyright Siegel and his co-creator, the late Joe Shuster, granted DC Comics in 1938. The price back then: a mere $130. Under the law, Siegel's heirs have been entitled to half of the revenue from Superman starting April 16, 1999, says Michael Lovitz, an attorney with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld specializing in copyright law, who has been following the case for some time.
1999 Comic News
Listed below are all the News items archived for 1999. Archiving started in September 1999.- September 3, 1999: Super-Custody Battle!
- September 22, 1999: Superman Settlement?
- October 5, 1999: New Era for Superman books
- October 12, 1999: Dematteis Joins The Superman Family
- November 2, 1999: Superman Scribe Jeph Loeb on AOL!
- November 8, 1999: Superman Rumor On The Grapeline
- November 12, 1999: DC Comics Voted No.1 Comic Book Publisher of the Century
- November 21, 1999: Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary Sign Exclusive Contracts with DC
- December 5, 1999: Valuable Comic Books Swiped From Conn. Home
- December 13, 1999: Able to Leap a Techo-Organic Building...
- December 20, 1999: Looney Tunes/DC Universe Crossover Back On Schedule
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