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Fantastic Four Anniversary Tribute Sees Marvel Enlist Major Artists In Celebration Of Group’s 60th Anniversary
Marvel is planning to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Fantastic Four No. 1 with an anniversary tribute featuring some of the team’s greatest stories reimagined by prominent comics artists of today.
The Fantastic Four Anniversary Tribute #1 comes in the wake of similar projects featuring the X-Men and Captain…
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Ava DuVernay To Direct Jack Kirby Comic Creation ‘The New Gods’ For Warner Bros, DC
After making history as the first woman of color to helm a $100 million-plus live-action film in A Wrinkle In Time, Ava DuVernay will continue to play in the event film sandbox. She’s closing a deal with Warner Bros and DC to direct a big-budget screen adaptation of The New Gods, the creation of revered comic book…
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Evangeline Lilly Reveals First Look At ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Costume On Jack Kirby’s 100th Birthday
Evangeline Lilly looks like she’s ready to take flight in her costume from Ant-Man And The Wasp. The actress posted a first look at her new costume for the Marvel Studios movie to celebrate the late, great comic book artist and Marvel legend Jack Kirby’s 100th birthday.
The photo has Lilly as Hope van Dyne in full…
Comic-Con: On Jack Kirby’s 100th Anniversary, Tributes To “The King Of Comics” From Stan Lee, Frank Miller, Kevin Feige, Geoff Johns & More
Without Jack Kirby there would be no Comic-Con. Period, full stop.
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of the man now known as the King of Comics, no tribute can really do justice to Kirby’s vast impact and importance. Last week at D23, Disney boss Bob Iger made a pretty fine effort when he praised Kirby as “an…
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Marvel & Jack Kirby Heirs Settle Legal Battle Ahead Of Supreme Court Showdown
Just days before the Supreme Court was set to take the matter into conference, Marvel and the family of Jack Kirby have settled their long running legal dispute over the comic legend’s rights to the characters he created or co-created. Here’s their joint statement:
"Marvel and the family of Jack Kirby have amicably…
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Jack Kirby Heirs Blast “Indefensible” Marvel Over SCOTUS Copyright Petition
To quote the Thing from the Fantastic Four – "It's clobberin time!" Just two days after Jack Kirby was honored at Comic-Con, lawyers for the heirs of the comic legend have replied to Marvel and Disney with a pummeling brief filed at the Supreme Court. "Respondents, although called to respond, do not address the legal…
Marvel Wants SCOTUS To Reject Jack Kirby Heirs’ “Bizarre” Rights Petition
EXCLUSIVE: No big surprise that today Marvel and Disney asked the Supreme Court to deny a petition from the heirs of Captain America, The Avengers and X-Men co-creator Jack Kirby. "This case presents a factbound application of a test uniformly adopted by the lower courts under a statute that does not apply to works…
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Supreme Court Decision To Hear Jack Kirby Rights Case Against Marvel & Disney Expected This Month
Just eight days before X-Men: Days Of Future Past opens everywhere on May 23, the mutant team's co-creator Jack Kirby will be getting some marquee attention from the Justices of the Supreme Court. Attention that could lead to Marvel and Disney arguing in front of the High Court against the Kirby heirs over the rights…
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Marvel & Disney Rights Case For Supreme Court To Decide Says Jack Kirby Heirs
Just days before Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens, the heirs of Captain America, The Avengers and X-Men co-creator Jack Kirby are asking the Supreme Court to hand them back the rights to the comic legends from Marvel and Disney. "The Court of Appeals unconstitutionally appropriated Kirby’s valuable copyrights…
Jack Kirby Estate Denied Rehearing In Marvel/Disney Superhero Rights Case
They tried again, but they did not succeed. Today the heirs of Captain America, The Avengers and X-Men co-creator Jack Kirby were denied their recent petition to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals for a rehearing or a full rehearing en banc on whether the estate had the right to issue termination notices to Marvel on…
Marvel Scores Another Win in Jack Kirby Copyright Case
(UPDATE 1:55 PM) After today's order in their favor from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that the estate of Jack Kirby had no right to issue notices back in 2009 terminating rights to characters he co-crested, Marvel issued the following: “We are gratified by the appellate court's definitive ruling that there…
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