Article here, in which Moore criticizes superhero as follows: "All of these characters have been stolen from their original creators, all of them." The writer continued, "They have a long line of ghosts standing behind them. In the case of Marvel films, Jack Kirby [the Marvel artist and writer]."

I see his point but, at the same time, Moore made his fame using the same characters, "stolen" from their creators: Swamp Thing (Wein/Wrightson), Superman (Siegle/Shuster), Batman and the Joker (Bill Finger/Jerry Robinson) and even, in the case of Etrigan, Kirby himself. Even "Watchmen" started out as a revamp of characters created by the likes Steve Ditko and others and LOEG is replete with his use of other writers' characters (everyone from Arthur Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker to Ian Fleming and J.K. Rowling).

Thoughts?