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Jul 29 11 2:34 PM
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.
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?
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