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I can believe the teeming millions haven’t jumped on you about this yet. Siegel and Shuster created Superman while they were in High School, and then spent 6 years trying to get it published. They sold the rights to the character for $130 and a contract to right and draw superman material. There’s no doubt they got shafted, nut I haven’t seen anything that shows that they weren’t legally shafted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman
It’s true. In the 70s, Neal Adams launched a campaign that got them an annual stipend for basically creating the character that launched the comic book industry as we know it. So some recompense was made.