00:00Based on your writing, what is the hardest thing for a person to reclaim once it's been lost in the
00:04legal system?
00:05This is what happened to Jerry Siegel, who is the subject of this book, The Superman Wars.
00:10He's the guy who came up with the idea for Superman, the world's first superhero back in about 1934.
00:17And he was an 11th grader at the time, just a kid who'd lost his father.
00:22He didn't have any business experience or advisors.
00:25And that ended up costing him because you know where this is going, right?
00:30Superman, once published in 38, is a huge success all around the world and making all kinds of money for
00:37the comic book company.
00:38But not so much for Jerry, who unfortunately had lost the rights to the character and then spends the next
00:45decade regretting it.
00:48Until they finally fire him and rip his name off his own character, you know, remove his creator credit from
00:55his creation, which is just, to my mind, immoral.
01:00It's wrong.
01:00You know, we could argue about the legalities all day long, but that is just morally and ethically wrong.
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