When Jerry Siegel Fought DC Over The Contract To Superboy & Lois Lane suprman dccomics
that the comic book publisher Detective Comics Inc, later to be bought out by National Comcis, and become DC Comics, had published the first Superboy story in a 1944 issue of. Siegel had tried to pitch his own Superboy story in 1940, and wasn't convinced that Detective Comics even owned the rights to the younger version of Superman.
This internal document below, dated September, 1946, demonstrates how Detective would continue to negotiate with Siegel after he returned to working on Superman duty. Detective Comics had paid Siegel for stories written by ghostwriters during his time in the Army. And in this document, handwritten notes address several of Siegel's objections to the company's original offer for him to script both Superboy and Lois Lane, Girl Reporter comic book stories.
The auction house ComicConnect is currently selling off a number of historical documents regarding Jerry Siegel. Famously, in 1938, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster sold all rights to Superman to their publisher for $130. Later Siegel and Shuster would sue, claiming royalties and ownership, a legal matter that was only finally settled by their families in recent years.
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