John's revolution

SRoweCanoe@aol.com SRoweCanoe at aol.com
Fri Oct 20 15:56:41 CEST 2000


dan wrote

<<a.  How much money do you think Carl Barks made for Western Publishing and
 the Disney Corporation?  Carl saw none of this until he started doing oil
 paintings in his 70s and 80s, and Disney even tried to take that away from
 him.>>

Actualy Western did have a profit-sharing plan in the early 1950s, I'm 
told...(I could have been told wrong).

 <<b. How much money did Superman make National Periodicals?  Joe Shuster and
 Jerry Siegel died in near poverty.>>

Thanks to Neal Adams and bad publicity, Warner Communications gave Shuster 
and Siegel a pension from the time of the first Superman movie till their 
deaths.  
The poverty was prior to that.  

<< c. How much money did Dan DeCarlo make Harvey Publications?  They just 
fired
 him for standing up for his claim to characters he created.>>

That would be Archie.  The harvey comics ended and most  were sold years ago.

Steven Rowe




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