Does DC’s Latest Revival Hint At Legal Victory?

This workweek ’s release of DC Comics ’ Final Crisis : Legion of 3 Worldsincluded a return that may have surprised followers of a particular lawsuit over grapheme ownership . coddler for lovers of teen superheroes out front .

The return of Connor Kent , AKA Superboy , in this week ’s quaternary issue of Legion came as a double surprisal to many people ; not only has the character been deadened since 2006 ’s Infinite Crisis , but he ’s rarely been mentioned as Superboy since , due – most assumed – to an ongoing case with the heirs of Jerry Siegel over the ownership of the name . Does Connor ’s return , to life and as Superboy , intend that DC have settled the eccentric ? Not exactly , explicate Newsarama ’s Jeff Trexler :

The comprehensive nature of the 2006 ruling – that “ any comic strip material of the nature now and heretofore sold under the rubric SUPERBOY ” belonged exclusively to the Siegel heirs – arguably prohibit DC from publishing any fabric that featured a quality named Superboy , whether a young Clark Kent or a derivative work featuring a character reference with the same name and similar office … However , in July 2007 , after the Superboy case had been transferred to a different justice , the motor lodge granted DC ’s movement to reconsider the 2006 ruling … Even better for DC , the 2007 order went on to indicate that DC owns at least 50 % of the Superboy copyright . Because the original material in head was pull back by Joe Shuster – whose right at this point remain vested in DC – Superboy would arguably be a joint body of work co - owned by DC and the Siegel inheritor .

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As a co - own property , DC would have the legal right to write new Superboy cloth without permission from the Siegels … which would explain not only Connor ’s return this week , but also the word that he will go on to star in DC ’s upcoming Adventure Comics revivification , compose by Geoff Johns :

The series will sport one of my preferred characters to write and a backbone of my rivulet on TEEN TITANS – SUPERBOY … But that ’s not all . It ca n’t be , right ? I mean , it ’s call ADVENTURE COMICS . It ’s not called SUPERBOY . That ’s because the series wo n’t just be featuring Superboy , it ’ll be co - featuring theLegion of Super - Heroesfresh from the Crisis of the 31st Century in LEGION OF THREE WORLDS . More on the details of the book , and Superboy and the Legion , will be coming out in the fall out week , but I think it ’s safe to reveal that STARMAN will be the Legionnaire taking front and shopping center stage with our first issue .

Adventure Comics # 1 will be resign in August ; the Superboy causa is ongoing .

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