Originally Posted by
malcolm
well, this is dc we're talking about. they're technically the top comic book company in the united states if you count paper and flex, second if you count popularity and both dc and marvel, the big top two have for the longest time had a nasty track record of taking character rights away from their creators.
just look at super-man. not to mention the foundation of image comics which was created by a group of frustrated artists from both marvel and dc as well as broadsword comics which was founded by catwoman artist jim balent and his wife holly g after years of frustration working for dc.
basically, when you sign up to work for dc, they get the majority of character rights, even if you get a name recognition and some character rights, they get the majority. but that's the way it is with almost every title-even some of the "indy" companies still retain some character rights and i'd imagine moore kinda knew that when he did watchmen and got dc to publish it.
so really,it boils down to he created watchmen, watchmen WAS his but the moment dc comics started printing it out under their name, it was theirs.
dc owns warner brothers btw if anyone didnt know that
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