Snappleshacks wrote:
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.
Except Marvel did hire artists to do three pages in the middle of a story, or to fill in backgrounds, or make corrections, etc., when circumstances warranted it.  And when that happened, they paid a page rate.  Three pages of redrawing netted the artist three pages of payment.  Marvel always paid a page rate, never a story rate.  

An example, DD 1 was inked by Everett, Ditko and Brodsky, because Everett was late in turning it in.