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Originally Posted by javabuddha
Thanks for the reply. I didn't realize that that is how it is done in the comic book world.
Also, I wish they would enable the "like" button on the forums.
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They didn't always do it like that. A beloved artist named Jack Kirby (co-creator of many of the characters in the popular Marvel movies) was very poorly compensated for his work in relation to the incredible income it generated (and this was well
before the juggernaut movies of today).
This injustice spurred younger creators in the 1980's, led by the fan-favorite Neal Adams, to rally around Kirby and insist Marvel Comics return to him whatever original art of his they had left (much of it had been stolen from the files in the intervening years). It became an industry standard to return the art to the artists as a result of that.