In the United States, creator ownership in comics is an arrangement in which the comic book creator retains full ownership of the material, regardless...

growing discourse on creator ownership in comics. IPC Magazines, owners of 2000 AD and one of the most dominant comics publishers in the UK, operated a...

co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with Jerry Siegel, in Action Comics #1 (cover-dated June 1938). Shuster was involved in a number of legal...

was one of the first to offer royalties and creator ownership of rights. Creators whose early work appears in Eclipse publications included Scott McCloud...

DSTLRY (pronounced "Distillery") is an independent creator-owned American comic book publisher founded in May 2023. It was founded by David Steinberger and...

Eclipse Comics in 1994, led to the series being kept out of print for over 15 years, while various parties who thought they had portions of ownership of the...

Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book series first published in 1937. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American...

The Creator's Bill of Rights (officially, A Bill of Rights for Comics Creators) is a document drafted in November 1988 by a number of independent comic...

the Galaxy. Marvel Comics Marvel Press, joint imprint with Disney Books Group Icon Comics (creator owned) Infinite Comics Timely Comics MAX 20th Century...

1974) was an American comic book writer who was the co-creator (with Bob Kane) of the DC Comics character Batman. Despite making major (sometimes, signature)...

published creator-owned work unconnected to Marvel's superhero universe, and without the restrictions of the Comics Code. The name was revived by Marvel in the...

enemies are a collection of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. These characters are depicted as adversaries of the...

Mutt and Jeff being an early—if not the earliest—case in which the creator retained ownership of his work.) Both these practices began to change with...

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1948, National Comics (another predecessor) settled ownership and royalties disputes and paid $94,013.16 for Superman and Superboy rights. In 1969, a court...

company founded in October 2023, which publishes creator-owned comics through Image Comics, and was founded to help the participating creators to benefit from...

writers and artists from DC Comics and Marvel Comics to produce creator-owned titles, which were not subject to the Comics Code, and thus were free to...

appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and debuted in the comic...

Code6 logo would be owned by both the creator and CrossGen Entertainment, Inc. with the majority of ownership resting with CGE. CrossGen would pay an...

The Jinxworld imprint moved in 2021 to Dark Horse Comics. The characters and its creators appear in Crossover (Image Comics). Combining the genres of superhero...

Concentration of media ownership, also known as media consolidation or media convergence, is a process wherein fewer individuals or organizations control...

succeeded in getting DC to agree to contracts giving creator ownership to writers and artists. DC announced its plan to form the Piranha imprint in 1987....

developed an interest in comics, acquiring as many as he could, and learning to draw from them. He was a fan of comics creators such as John Byrne, Jack...

number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited, and was one of the founders of the Legend imprint at Dark Horse Comics. Revisiting...

and into practice, providing a forum for comics creators to work for a publisher while maintaining ownership of their work. Rick Veitch has written that:...

in Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #1 in 1962 by Gold Key Comics and has since appeared in other incarnations in books published by Valiant Comics in the...

His first creator-owned title was DC Comics' six-issue miniseries Ronin (1983–1984). In 1985, DC Comics named Miller as one of the honorees in the company's...

Frank Miller, to write one issue of his creator-owned comics series Spawn, which was published by Image Comics. While doing so, Gaiman introduced the characters...

appearances. Gray began his professional career in comics in December 2000 as the writer and creator of Saturday Afternoon, a syndicated daily comic strip...

Magazines, DC Thomson and Marvel UK, the creators of each strip would receive a share in their output's ownership and increased royalties for reprints, instead...