Tag: DC
The Legal View: What the Shuster ruling means
By Jeff Trexler
In the book of Genesis, Esau sells his birthright to his younger brother Jacob for some lentil soup.
Yesterday, a judge ruled that...
Warner Bros Win Superman Court Case Against Shuster Estate
It's being reported that Warner Bros have won a court case which will determine who owns the copyright to Superman, meaning they will retain...
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: August 2012
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
August was another strong month for DC -- that's always worth pointing out, given the rather dire numbers of the publisher's comic-book...
Laura Siegel Larson: “I refuse to be bullied or deterred from enforcing my family’s...
This week the long, long battle for the rights to Superman took another turn, as Warners sued attorney Marc Toberoff , who has been representing the family of Jerry Siegel, Superman's co-creator, for many years. The Siegel's have won several legal rounds, leading Warners to adopt very aggressive tactics to delay enforcing a decision to award the Siegel family half of Superman's copyright -- a decision which a court reached 13 years ago, in 1999.
NYCC: Giffen Returns to Cosmic Comics for DC’s Threshold
Starting a new wave for DC, I believe their fourth, comes the announcement that a new property will be launching from the company in...
NYCC: Bob Wayne covers Mad
Whereas for some groups, it's Olivia Munn or Adrienne Curry who might be a a draw, for comic book retailers, DC's VP of Sales...
Andy Diggle takes over Action Comics in March
England's own Andy Diggle has been announced as the new writer for Action Comics, taking over the series from Grant Morrison as of issue...
The Justice League Welcome The Craftsman to their Team, and the world rejoices
By Steve Morris
Launching at NYCC but also available now as a free digital comic, DC's newest member of the Justice League is perhaps the...
Alan Davis ‘assists’ on Astonishing X-Men; and the effect of double-shipping on artists
By Steve Morris
As spotted by Jarrod on the CBR forums (hi Jarrod!), a Mike Perkins fight sequence from next week's Astonishing X-Men #55 clearly...
MorrisonCon revelations: Wenlock and Mandeville are Archons
Apparently Jon Sung, aka Flickr's Ferocious J, had uncovered that the London Olympics mascots were actually the villains from Grant Morrison's Invisibles several years...
Comics News: Raven to lead Teen Titan spin-off and some comics fans are gross
What really goes on at a local comics show without company minders to make sure things run smoothly? Josh Bell's deadpan accounting of the...
As Editor Brian Smith leaves DC, we learn you can’t spell schadenfreude without “Liefeld”
Former Marvel and now DC editor Brian Smith tweeted the other day that he was moving on to go back to his freelance work. Which is a fairly normal occurrence. Except when not long ago, the one and only Rob Liefeld was tweeting that you were a horrible editor and had small appendages. And so Smith's departure was the occasion for another Liefeld broadside:
