Tag: Jerry Siegel

Attorney Marc Toberoff is once again taking on a major movie studio with a lawsuit claiming that the rights to Superman reverted to Joe Shuster's heirs in accordance with foreign laws.

Get excited for another 12 months of classics from Rebellion's vast British comic book archives

THIS WEEK: With no new comics on the way for the foreseeable future, the DC Round-Up crew is writing about some of our favorite classic DC stories, starting with All-Star Superman. All-Star Superman Writer: Grant Morrison Penciler:...

DC begins its massive celebration of the Man of Steel with an excellent hardcover retrospective

xx It's been a long road to Action Comics #1000 - more than 80 years to be exact. DC is celebrating the milestone with not only the regular periodical, and the return of SUperman's trunks,...

If you are familiar, or in the least semi-familiar, with the early history of the comic medium, images of fit men flying and punching everything in sight while wearing tights might blip through your...

This exhibit of works from Craig Yoe's original art collection has already garnered stellar accolades - tonight you can see why. And that's not all ... I had the good fortune of seeing an early...

The Center for Jewish History hosted a celebration of the 2013 75th birthday of the seminal superhero Superman on January 27th with co-sponsorship from Columbia University Library. Though Superman’s cover-date advent in comics occurred...

Given the lively discussion of what folks don't want to see on The Beat, I couldn't resist noting that an attorney representing Smallville co-creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough in their dispute with Time...

Over the past year creators' copyright crusader Marc Toberoff took some serious hits in the various Superman and Kirby lawsuits. Yet there was also a deceptively routine procedural matter that could have already assured him a victory in the Siegel estate's Superman appeal.

It's being reported that Warner Bros have won a court case which will determine who owns the copyright to Superman, meaning they will retain rights over the character. On Wednesday a court ruling was...

This week the long, long battle for the rights to Superman took another turn, as Warners sued attorney Marc Toberoff , who has been representing the family of Jerry Siegel, Superman's co-creator, for many years. The Siegel's have won several legal rounds, leading Warners to adopt very aggressive tactics to delay enforcing a decision to award the Siegel family half of Superman's copyright -- a decision which a court reached 13 years ago, in 1999.