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This month we're celebrating the 15th Anniversary of Blake Bell's Fire & Water: Bill Everett, The Sub-Mariner, and the Birth of Marvel Comics!!! If you don't own it, then I highly rec getting it as the book is a must read! Thank you @ blakebellwriter on twitter

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As Gernsback's example had shown, it was useful for a pulp or magazine publisher to create multiple publishing companies, and most did so. When trouble arose, one company could be placed into bankruptcy and have its intellectual property bought out by one of the publisher's other companies. The purchaser company would then be legally shielded from responsibility for paying the debts of the bankrupt company (even though the editors stayed the same, as did the office addresses). Those unpaid debts included money owed to the hapless writers, some of whom were already getting a bad deal by being paid "upon publication" instead of "upon acceptance." Payment upon publication forced writers to wait weeks and months for their payments, with no guarantee that their work would ever see print. It was a delaying tactic that allowed publishers to build and manage inventory at no cost while holding onto their money longer—maybe even long enough to see the debt discharged in bankruptcy. A more insidious practice was (to use a modern term) to "repurpose" an author's work: present it as original material by changing the title and the character's names—and stripping away the original copyright notice. The trade magazines of the late 1920s and early 1930s are overflowing with complaints from writers who had been so victimized. One of the chief practitioners of such dirty dodges was Harry Donenfeld, the future publisher of DC Comics, the main rival of Marvel Comics to this day.

—Blake Bell and Dr. Michael J. Vassallo, The Secret History of Marvel Comics (Fantagraphics, 2013): pg. 18.

Martin Goodman, founder of Marvel Comics, would do the same:

It took two years, but on January 5, 1942, the FTC slammed both Goodman and Silberkleit for deceptively reprinting stories as new fiction, substituting new titles for the original titles, changing the names of characters and, "without obtaining the sanction or authorization of the authors of stories, [substituting] pseudonyms or so-called 'house names' for the authors' names or pen names." They were also sanctioned for stripping the original copyrights and claiming the work as their own.

Over the next two decades, three more FTC judgments against Goodman would follow. (Ibid., pg. 28-29.)

Gernsback, it's worth noting, is Hugo Gernsback, publisher of Amazing Stories and namesake of the Hugo Awards. Silberkleit is Louis Silberkleit, the L in MLJ Magazines, the precursor of Archie Comics.

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Happy Birthday Bill Everett!

Happy 106th birthday to Bill Everett, beloved creator of Namor the Sub-Mariner!

Born on May 18, 1917 in Massachusetts, Bill Everett packed a ton living in his all too short life, and was an influential great of the Golden Age of Comics.

If you want to learn more about this talented creator, there's a wonderfully illustrated biography by Blake Bell, written with the co-operation of Everett's family, called FIRE AND WATER: Bill Everertt, the Sub-Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics.

Here's a video preview of the book.

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Why does Namor has wingkles? lmao

Characters who embodied ambiguous gradations of good and evil, examining their intentions, all can be traced back to Everett's decision to proceed with the Sub-Mariner as the opposite of Superman. "My point, in particular," said Everett, "was to be different! We tried to outdo Superman, but, because Superman had come from another planet and therefore was not an Earth person, and my character was, I had to dream up some reasons for this character to have these prowesses that he has. I didn't want to put wings on his back and make him look like an angel, so we put them on his feet which was inspired by the statue of Mercury. This gave him speed and the ability to fly." - Bill Everett from Fire & Water: Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner, and the Birth of Marvel Comics by Blake Bell.

Fun Fact: Namor is the first flying superhero in comics, first shown to fly in Marvel Comics (1939) #1. Superman would first fly in the comics in May 1943, before that he would only leap really high.

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Re-Examining Spider-Man 03 - Teenage Origins & Cultural History

"How is it that the most famous superhero to originate as a teenager, was developed by two men who never knew the word teenager even when they were teenagers?" Find out in Re-Examining Spider-Man 03 - Teenage Origins & Cultural History

Original prototype Logo of Spiderman, developed by Joe Simon. Here’s a fundamental question to ask with the development of Spider-Man? How is it that the most famous superhero to originate as a teenager, was developed by two men who never knew the word “teenager” even when they were teenagers? Where, when, and at what stage did the concept of “the teenager” enter into the development of the…

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