Ed Brubabker Criticizes Disney/Marvel For Lack Of Winter Soldier Royalties

[Brian B]

To me this is all nuts. Thor has made marvel/disney Billions. Thor is a public domain character. Now are people arguing well what about the people who have wrote Thor comics over the years don't they deserve part of the royalties from these Thor and Avengers movies? The Thor character isn't anything like the guy the Norse people invented 2000 years ago. So these comic writers and just pick one have done their own various versions of Thor. Do these guys get royalties? What if Jane Foster becomes Thor in the next movie? Does that guy who made Jane Foster deserve royalties? And say you say well yes the guy who wrote Jane Foster Thor deserves royalties. Wait he wasn't the first to do Jane Foster Thor. It was actually done in a what if comic back in the 70s. So this gets crazy convoluted.

Your choice of Thor is kind of funny, given the decades Kirby and the Kirby estate fought to have Kirby’s rights recognized. Note that when it got to the Supreme Court, Marvel and Disney finally chose to settle and pay the Kirby estate for Kirby’s creation of Thor, among other Marvel characters, rather than gamble the entire Disney empire on the hopes of a favorable verdict for Marvel / Disney.

Anyway, I’m not claiming Brubaker’s situation is the same as Kirby’s. It would just be ethical for Disney to reward Brubaker more. That’s all.