Hot on the heels of Disney's documentary on Stan Lee which was regarded as being too reverential to its subject.
HBO, A Warner owned company does a documentary on DC Comics, also owned by Warner.
These things help with copyright issues, as they can show clips of DC movies and television shows.
This documentary does not shy away that Bob Kane might have been a creator of Batman. It was later acknowledged that Bill Finger had a hand in the creation of the Batman comics and characters. Only Finger had died some decades earlier.
In fact the creators of some of the best known comic heroes. For example Siegel and Shuster lived in relative poverty. It was the publishers who owned the rights, the cartoonists were just freelancers. You need a superhero to fight for your rights for royalties. The documentary does shy away from the nitty gritty of all this.
The first part of the DC comics story informed the viewer as to how these superheroes were created. It was an immigrant story borne in the 1930s. During the second world war comics took off. In the 1950s once Superman was a television show, comics became popular again. Only later to be accused of encouraging violence and delinquency.
For the owners of the comics. By the 1950s what mattered was not the comics, it was the merchandising potential. The Hero's Journey is all about the money. You get the feeling that despite all the movie clips this has been sanitised.
HBO, A Warner owned company does a documentary on DC Comics, also owned by Warner.
These things help with copyright issues, as they can show clips of DC movies and television shows.
This documentary does not shy away that Bob Kane might have been a creator of Batman. It was later acknowledged that Bill Finger had a hand in the creation of the Batman comics and characters. Only Finger had died some decades earlier.
In fact the creators of some of the best known comic heroes. For example Siegel and Shuster lived in relative poverty. It was the publishers who owned the rights, the cartoonists were just freelancers. You need a superhero to fight for your rights for royalties. The documentary does shy away from the nitty gritty of all this.
The first part of the DC comics story informed the viewer as to how these superheroes were created. It was an immigrant story borne in the 1930s. During the second world war comics took off. In the 1950s once Superman was a television show, comics became popular again. Only later to be accused of encouraging violence and delinquency.
For the owners of the comics. By the 1950s what mattered was not the comics, it was the merchandising potential. The Hero's Journey is all about the money. You get the feeling that despite all the movie clips this has been sanitised.
