I hope the whole world, becoming aware of the stench that surrounds Superman, will avoid the movie like the plague. “I hope loyal Superman fans stay away from it in droves. He wrote a long, angry screed placing a curse on Donner's movie and sent copies to every news organisation he could think of. Six months later, with Richard Donner's 1978 Superman movie on the horizon but still no pension from DC, Siegel decided it was time for desperate measures. Siegel wrote a long, angry screed placing a curse on Richard Donner's Superman movie Both in their sixties by then, suffering from poor health, and struggling for cash, they wearily agreed. That case dragged on till 1975, producing another defeat for the two men and hints from DC that it might give them a pension if they dropped plans for a Supreme Court appeal. The Superman wars broke out again in 1966, when his initial 28-year copyright term came to an end, and Siegel and Shuster filed notice to terminate. DC retained ownership of all the characters Kirby had created there, and still uses them to this day. Kirby invented, wrote and drew a handful of unconnected books for DC after that, including The Demon, Kamandi and Omac, but returned to Marvel in 1976. Citing poor sales, DC closed New Gods and The Forever People after just 11 issues each, and Mister Miracle after only 18. Kirby's original hope had been to give his Fourth World story a proper ending, close the comics themselves down, and then collect the whole saga into a series of what we'd now call graphic novels.

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