Editing Joe Shuster (section)

=== Legal issues ===
In 1946, near the end of their ten-year contract to produce Superman stories, Siegel and Shuster sued [[Detective Comics, Inc.]] to have their contract annulled and regain their rights to Superman. The following year, the [[New York Court of Appeals|New York State Supreme Court]] ruled the publisher had validly purchased the rights to Superman when it bought the first Superman story, saying the duo had "transferred to Detective Comics, Inc., all of their rights in and to the comic strip Superman, including the title, names, characters and conception...." 

A subsequent [[interlocutory]] judgment found that rights to [[Superboy]], however, belonged to Siegel. Detective Comics Inc. subsequently paid Siegel and Shuster $94,000 for the rights to Superboy and the duo's written agreement acknowledging the rights to Superman belonged to the publisher. 

Afterward, the company removed Shuster and Siegel's byline from Superman stories.<ref name=tcj263>{{cite news | url = http://www.tcj.com/263/n_marketable.html | title=An Extraordinarily Marketable Man: The Ongoing Struggle for Ownership of Superman and Superboy | publisher= (excerpt) [[The Comics Journal]]| issue= 263|date=November 2004|first= Michael |last=Dean | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080919180208/http://www.tcj.com/263/n_marketable.html | archive-date= September 19, 2008}}</ref><ref name="NYT2903">{{cite news|last=Ciepley| first= Michael| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/business/media/29comics.html| title=Ruling Gives Heirs a Share of Superman Copyright| work=[[The New York Times]]| date= March 29, 2008| access-date=March 29, 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090309235008/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/business/media/29comics.html |archive-date = March 9, 2009 | url-status=live}}</ref>