Greedy Bastards

In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Sammy and Joe created a superhero named The Escapist for their boss at Empire Comics. The Escapist was supposed to be the comic company's very own Superman and make them millions, which it did. Sammy and Joe came up with the idea and all of the stories themselves, but were only entitled to a small portion of the profits because of a contract they signed to get their idea started. Although the two really didn't have a choice on whether or not to sign, because they didn't have the money nor the marketing powers to start selling their brainchild. Mr. Deasey and Mr. Anapol became multi-millionaires thanks to Joe and Sam, but never entitled them to more than a small percentage of the profits for any of their superhero comics. I think this was pretty messed up. I know that they had to get the majority of the money to keep funding the comic books, but they could have given the two boys at least 25% for all the work that they did. I think Deasey and Anapol were some pretty greedy bastards.