Jack Kirby Family Sues Marvel for rights to Spider-man, FF and More!
 

Well this is interesting... Jack Kirby versus Marvel

Especially given how little if nothing that Kirby had to do with Spidey.

Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't all those characters created by Stan Lee? He at least takes credit for it anyways. Surprised they're not suing DC for rights to Darkseid or something. This is obviously them trying to take advantage of the Disney buy out.

That's the whole controversy about it. Stan Lee has always gotten all of the credit and financial reward, but Kirby is said to have had a bigger hand in the creation of those old titles.

The situation very much mirrors what evolved between Mirage and all of their artists.

Kirbys family wants complete rights to certain characters that he created, but the thing is since he was being hired by Marvel to create these new characters at the time legally, Marvel owns then because he was being paid to make them. now if he created them and then went to Marvel and said "hey i made these new superheroes i wanna sell them to you." then Kirbys family has the right to sue. pretty much his family is getting greedy and copying what the family's of the creators of Superman did a few yrs back. its a stupid mess.

Except, as it relates to Spider-Man, Kirby doesn't really deserve any credit. I think Lee and Kirby did a lot on guys like the FF and Kirby no doubt had a higher influence on the characters than some like to admit... But his work on Spider-Man is almost none. He designed a story, a costume and a few pages, none of which were ever used and completely revamped by Lee and Ditko. The only Spider-man work he ever did was a redrawing of Ditko's first cover.

I get it when they wanted original art work back, but this is stupid.
and it's sad that kirby didn't get much credit for his work while he was alive.
but this is wrong.