Welcome to the 910th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our third legend, we learn about a fight over original art that led to Mike Royer no longer working for Warren Publishing anymore. For many years, comic book publishers treated the act of drawing comic books a situation where the publishers were buying the art from the creators, so that any given page of comic book art was owned by the publishers, and the publishers could do whatever they wanted with it. I’ve spotlighted stories over the years about how some of the most iconic works of comic book art were just cut up and used for other purposes, like Jack Kirby’s original art for the first cover of the Incredible Hulk being cut up and used for a house ad.Beautiful, right? Well, Cockrum had put SO much work into the page (and, again, has gone out of pocket for the artboard. Since the page was printed in the comic book sideways on a single page, he only got paid for a single page for the double-page splash, so he might have not even technically made any money on the page!) that he told Murray Boltinoff that he wanted the original art. He knew that the policy was to not give original art back, but he wanted them to make an exception. Boltinoff ultimately said yes, but then DC top editor Carmine Infantino overruled Boltinoff, saying that he just couldn’t make any exceptions to DC’s return policy for original art. Cockrum was so angry that he quit and went to go work for Marvel, where he created this international team of mutants with Len Wein that was moderately successful.
Welcome to the 910th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our third legend, we learn about a fight over original art that led to Mike Royer no longer working for Warren Publishing anymore.
For many years, comic book publishers treated the act of drawing comic books a situation where the publishers were buying the art from the creators, so that any given page of comic book art was owned by the publishers, and the publishers could do whatever they wanted with it. I’ve spotlighted stories over the years about how some of the most iconic works of comic book art were just cut up and used for other purposes, like Jack Kirby’s original art for the first cover of the Incredible Hulk being cut up and used for a house ad.
Beautiful, right? Well, Cockrum had put SO much work into the page (and, again, has gone out of pocket for the artboard. Since the page was printed in the comic book sideways on a single page, he only got paid for a single page for the double-page splash, so he might have not even technically made any money on the page!) that he told Murray Boltinoff that he wanted the original art. He knew that the policy was to not give original art back, but he wanted them to make an exception. Boltinoff ultimately said yes, but then DC top editor Carmine Infantino overruled Boltinoff, saying that he just couldn’t make any exceptions to DC’s return policy for original art. Cockrum was so angry that he quit and went to go work for Marvel, where he created this international team of mutants with Len Wein that was moderately successful.
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