It used to be fairly common for the big two comic companies to be accused of stealing other fans ideas. When I was doing HIGH MOON, I had half a dozen people accusing me of stealing their ideas. It was crazy. It got so bad that DC Comics actually put into place a legal order that stopped them from receiving any unsolicited submissions for fans and wanna-be professionals looking to break in.
These days, comic book creators are forbidden from reading fan-fiction or other spec work from fans to prevent these sort of 'infringements' and 'intellectual property theft'
As far as the art elements go, there is not much of that so much, but it does happen from time to time, and it it usually played off as an 'homage.' Editors are in place to usually prevent those kind of matters.
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It used to be fairly common for the big two comic companies to be accused of stealing other fans ideas. When I was doing HIGH MOON, I had half a dozen people accusing me of stealing their ideas. It was crazy. It got so bad that DC Comics actually put into place a legal order that stopped them from receiving any unsolicited submissions for fans and wanna-be professionals looking to break in.
These days, comic book creators are forbidden from reading fan-fiction or other spec work from fans to prevent these sort of 'infringements' and 'intellectual property theft'
As far as the art elements go, there is not much of that so much, but it does happen from time to time, and it it usually played off as an 'homage.' Editors are in place to usually prevent those kind of matters.