sfcityduck wrote:
No.  Marvel didn't pay for stories.  They paid for pages.  Jack Kirby was paid a page rate not a story rate.  But, when he presented a page to Marvel, Marvel wasn't obligated to pay for it.  This begs the question: Who bore the risk for the work?


I think this is disingenuous. Marvel wasn't hiring Kirby to draw three pages in the middle of a story. They hired artists to draw stories, and those artists were paid on a per-page basis. This isn't any different than paying someone an hour rate with the expectation that they are working the full day.