When I was a kid, Marvel and DC Comics were bastions of dreams. Not only were the superheroes amazing and like friends, so were the people who made the comics. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were larger than life, and when they'd write something in the letter columns of the comics, I'd hang on every word. Later, I read that Lee and Kirby didn't like each other much, and that Kirby didn't get all the money he deserved from Lee and Marvel. Marvel changed the world of superheroes, but it didn't transform one eternal maxim: money... More >>>