If I understand you correctly, then why aren't the New Gods a property of the Kirby estate? They seem pretty clearly a property of DC Comics as DC has published them and used characters from them in a myriad of other projects and properties. As far as I have ever known or read, the Kirby estate is not receiving royalty payments for those characters.


Geez, I can only wonder what you've been reading -- DC has made it a policy to pay creators (and often credit them) when characters are used in other media. In fact, when Kirby's New Gods characters were used as part of Kenner's "Super Powers" toy line in the mid-1980s, Kirby received payment for the use of those characters -- probably for the first time in his career.

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