The visual makeover goes hand in hand with changes to the Wonder Woman story, publisher DC Comics says.
Warner Bros. and DC Comics say the heirs never owned the rights and the two corporations have nothing wrong.
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First it was The Daily Planet, until DC Comics, which owns the right to that name, had its say.
Warner Bros. and DC Comics are units of Time Warner, as is CNN.
Siegel's heirs have also fought DC Comics - owned by Warner - for a stake in copyrights to Superman.
Few mainstream audiences knew or cared that Batman is from DC Comics and Spider-Man is from Marvel.
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"One book that comes to mind is Wonder Woman, " said Erika Peterman, a DC Comics fan and blogger for girls-gone-geek.com.
Gaiman and DC Comics have announced that the author will be returning to The Sandman series he completed back in March 1996.
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The media giant also happened to own DC Comics, and putting two and two together, they realized they had a marketing tool too good to ignore.
With the convergence of DC Comics already successful from comic books to blockbuster movies like The Dark Knight Rises to hit games like Warner Bros.
This storyline would not have been conceived nor approved at DC Comics in the 1940s or 50s or 60s or 70s or 80s or 90s.
Bob Schreck, long-time editor at DC Comics, has no such reticence.
Fortunately, DC Comics are helping answer some of these questions by releasing a brief mini-series which will detail the events pre-game that have led to this point.
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Warner Bros. and DC Comics say that ruling was incorrect.
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Interactive Entertainment-owned studio, NetherRealm, has worked with some of the most famous DC Comics super heroes like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Arrow and The Flash in a video game.
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Their creation was picked up by DC Comics in 1937, who then hired the pair to create comic strips, with DC owning all work created from that point on.
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He is one of a team of writers and artists, based around a tiny studio in Glasgow city centre, who turn out dozens of titles for that most archetypal American product: DC Comics.
What about that DC Comics' "Justice League of America" film (which, if not for a 2008 writers' strike, might well have beaten Marvel's "The Avengers" to the screen by a good many years)?
Kids will be able to watch videos, play games, use apps and read books from content partners including Andrews McMeel Publishing, Chronicle Books, DC Comics, Disney, HIT Entertainment, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Marvel, Nickelodeon, PBS, Rainbow and Sesame Workshop.
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In 2010, DC Comics sued the brother and sister of Shuster, the artist responsible for Superman, on the basis that they relinquished their ability to reclaim the superhero's copyrights in exchange for annual pension payments from DC Comics.
"The court's decision paves the way for the Siegel finally to receive the compensation they negotiated for and which DC has been prepared to pay for over a decade, " Warner Bros. said in a prepared statement, referring to its DC Comics division.
As some of you know, Bruce Timm basically stepped down as Supervising Producer of the DC Animated Universe at the end of March, ending what amounts to a 22 year reign as the proverbial guiding light of the animated variation of the DC Comics world.
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Moreover, while Paramount has decided to make a go of it with their own animated content (such as the Oscar-winning Rango from two years ago), Warner Bros. could have frankly used a powerhouse animation slate as they have mostly failed to capitalize on big-screen variations of their various DC Comics television franchises or The Looney Tunes.
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Now that a court case has ensured that DC Comics superhero Superman will keep flying at Warner Bros. in the foreseeable future, the studio is readying their plans to move forward with the oft-mentioned Justice League film project and release the movie in 2015, according to sources who spoke to the L.A. Times.
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