Book Excerpt - 'From Superman to Spawn: How Hollywood Got Rich While Creators Got Poor'
The following is a work in progress. It is a chapter from my forthcoming book, From Superman to Spawn: How Hollywood Got Rich While Creators Got Poor. The book will be released later this year. This excerpt is not to be reprinted, anywhere in any format, without the express permission of the author. In the meantime, enjoy this chapter on the 1990 Captain America movie! ------------ 'I've Never Met Them, Are They Alive?' Work for hire practices were still in vogue with comic book companies well into the 1990s. If you wrote, or drew for Marvel, or DC, then the company owned everything you did. Not only could they reprint it forever, and not pay royalties, but they could, and did, sell the characters (and the concepts that invariably came with them) to any Hollywood studio that came calling. The result led to Marvel selling characters to anyone that came along, resulting in different film studios owning Spider-Man , the X-Men and more. The Marvel situation became so complica