Things You Didn’t Know About The Adventures Of Superman

Sold It For Cheap

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You would have thought that the creators of Superman would have known how big he was going to become. Maybe then they wouldn’t have sold the rights for so low. Even for the era they were in, that price they sold it for was too low and they could have forced the hand of DC a bit more than that. Just goes to show that you always have to have faith in your creations.

“Siegel and Shuster earned fairly high salaries writing and illustrating Superman comics,” wrote History. “But they received no royalties, having signed away all rights to their character for $130.”