in-sequence: Cover Design by Chip Kidd this is really a great book full of so much awesome ephemera. Also the die cut lighting bolt on the cover is so much cooler when you hold the book in your hands… 
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in-sequence:

Cover Design by Chip Kidd

this is really a great book full of so much awesome ephemera. Also the die cut lighting bolt on the cover is so much cooler when you hold the book in your hands… 

Behold the $130 Check DC Comics Wrote in 1938 for the Exclusive Rights to Superman

“An astonishing artifact from the beginnings of American comics history was unearthed this week, the check written by DC Comics to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster for the exclusive rights to their then-new character, Superman. The young comic book creators sold Superman to the publisher for a mere $130 (split between the two of them). Their character would of course go on to inspire an entire genre of superhero fiction across all mediums and generate millions upon millions of dollars in sales of comic books, movie tickets and other countless forms of merchandise.”