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skyjedi2005
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What separates the "Ages" of comic books and where does DC make the transition from Earth-Two to Earth-One? *Comic aficionados needed*
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17-Aug-2008, 2:12 AM

I love the very early Superman and how the art is very clearly inspired by Alex Raymond's work on Flash Gordon.

The line art and the inking etc. Very much recall the newspaper comics By Harold Foster Like Prince Valiant and Tarzan, and the early Raymond work.

Siegel and Shuster.

Created an Icon. But The Fleischer studios took him one step further. And then many decades Later The immortal vision of the screenwriter of the godfather Mario Puzo with Richard Donner directing Christopher Reeve set in stone the look to come and changed the continuity forever.

Until they decided to retcon the comics and pretend that movie never happened and made a teen show called smallville, LOL. That had no ties to either continuity, until they started to pander to fans to get their ratings out of the toilet.

D.C. comics lost the rights to Superman except in international territories when a Judge decided the rights reverted back to the estates of the original creators. They will appeal. But because of this the people who now have the rights can shop the character to any studio, unless DC keeps the film rights exclusively which may be what happened. Still they get millions of dollars in royalties coming their way if the man of steel hits the silver screen. 

There is a possibility someday DC's publishing of superman ceases and the creators estates sell the rights to another comics publisher, there is also a cloud of doubt whether the new superman film will even come out in 2010 now that DC and warners no longer own the character.