Whap! Bam! Killing the comics The shortsighted comic-book industry has a habit of bleeding the creat

twistedlibrarian writes “A federal judge has ruled that Marvel Comics owes millions of dollars to its longtime writer, Stan Lee, in unpaid profits from movies based on the characters he created: Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Incredible Hulk.

Lee’s lawsuit had sent a modest shock wave through the comics community — not because a comic-book publisher scammed one of its creators — that’s what those publishers have always done. Lee, of all the creators in the business, seemed to be the one immune to scammery.”

The Oregonian