TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY
In 1933 two young men, Joe Schuster and Jerry Siegel, created a comic strip for a publishing company in New York. Money was hard to come by in those Depression days and the two sold all rights to the company five years later for the sum of $130. The comic strip – The Adventures of Superman – became very popular and made millions for the publishing company that held the copyright on it, and for the various movie and television producers who made films from it. The two young men who had started it all, however, never got a dime of those profits. The story does, however, have something of a happy, if belated, ending. A company called Warner Communications eventually acquired all rights to Superman, the man from planet Krypton. And though it was not legally required to set the matter right, the company felt it had a moral obligation to do so. Accordingly, it agreed to…
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