{"id":5501,"date":"2014-06-19T13:01:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T20:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=5501"},"modified":"2014-06-19T13:01:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T20:01:30","slug":"supreme-court-may-weigh-in-on-kirby-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=5501","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court May Weigh in On Kirby Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great Jack Kirby&#8217;s heirs have been in a long, drawn out lawsuit against the Marvel\/Disney monolith in attempting to some of the money they deserve for Kirby&#8217;s creation of most of the characters in the early &#8220;Marvel Universe&#8221; comics. <a href=\"http:\/\/robot6.comicbookresources.com\/2014\/06\/will-supreme-court-weigh-in-on-kirby-heirs-fight-with-marvel\/\">It may go to the Supreme court soon.<\/a> You can read an excellent summary of the case by <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfromme.com\">Mark Evanier<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twomorrows.com\/\">John Morrow<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/230432367\/Evanier\">their testimony<\/a> for the case below. The details of the horror story of how Kirby has been treated by Marvel really should be something everyone trying to make a living in comics should be familiar with. <\/p>\n<p  style=\" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\">   <a title=\"View Evanier on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/230432367\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >Evanier<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/230432367\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_1439\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great Jack Kirby&#8217;s heirs have been in a long, drawn out lawsuit against the Marvel\/Disney monolith in attempting to some of the money they deserve for Kirby&#8217;s creation of most of the characters in the early &#8220;Marvel Universe&#8221; comics. It may go to the Supreme court soon. You can read an excellent summary of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=5501\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Supreme Court May Weigh in On Kirby Case<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-1qJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}