Marvel Worldwide, Inc. et al v. Kirby et al

Filing 66

DECLARATION of Randi W. Singer in Support re: 60 MOTION for Summary Judgment.. Document filed by MVL Rights, LLC, Marvel Characters, Inc., Marvel Entertainment, Inc., Marvel Worldwide, Inc., The Walt Disney Company. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 31, # 2 Exhibit 32, # 3 Exhibit 33, # 4 Exhibit 34, # 5 Exhibit 35, # 6 Exhibit 36, # 7 Exhibit 37, # 8 Exhibit 38, # 9 Exhibit 39, # 10 Exhibit 40, # 11 Exhibit 41-1, # 12 Exhibit 41-2, # 13 Exhibit 42, # 14 Exhibit 43, # 15 Exhibit 44, # 16 Exhibit 45, # 17 Exhibit 46, # 18 Exhibit 47, # 19 Exhibit 48, # 20 Exhibit 49, # 21 Exhibit 50, # 22 Exhibit 51, # 23 Exhibit 52, # 24 Exhibit 53, # 25 Exhibit 54, # 26 Exhibit 55, # 27 Exhibit 56, # 28 Exhibit 57)(Quinn, James)

Marvel Worldwide, Inc. et al v. Kirby et al

Doc. 66 Att. 10

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flank Clerk; Eli have to see some identillcadani' Spider'Maas What about my.COSTUMEP Bank Clerk: Don?t- be sillyl ANYONEcan wear- ai costume! Do you bans social security card, or a driver's license in, the name of Spider-Mant Wandering of I in' a blue funk, Spider-Mae just.

shrugged unconcernedly as a burglar ran by. When he got back borne. to (a regrettably unauthentic rural.looking)4 Forest Hills. of course it turned out that the burglar ha4l just murdered Uncle Ben. Spider-Man duly vowed to be more public'spiritedzin the future. But now be really bad money problems. Aunt Slay wouid not hear of his quitting, school. But how could he support the household with a part-time job and-still find time to catch crooks? He tried to solve everything by goin "a salary with the Fantastic Four. (All Lee's diaracters
are

other

located, around New York and tend to run into eacit on the job.) Hut the Fl. wanted to keep their non'

rrotit foundation status and turned him down. "You came to the wrong place, pal," said the Thing unsympathetically;.
"This ain't General Motors." .t the moment. Peter Parker has
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science

scholarship.

Starr College "id supplements it by freelandng news photos. ills specialty is slelayed--acijois pi* of his spider self in combat. It's not much money--Peter Parker is a lousy businessman--hut at lease it picks up the tab for Aunt \lay's many hospitalizations. The Hulk is the moss unstable character in the history. of comic books. itst first, scientist Bruce Banner and the jolly green monster had a gamma-ray induced Jekyll-Hyde
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co-tenancy. But

now

having absorbed.

the Hulk is in permanent possession, some of Banner's l.Q. but non, of his

peaceable, ways; Huiky will bash anything' that gets in hit vay--incjudjng-3lanei', other super heroes and the U. S. `Pr Soviet Armed Forces Thor, the. None thundergotJ, recently had. to take am elevator to the. top of a midtown skystriper bohr, he could fly otto Mis to-stop
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thesis.: The. unremittingly tragic lion. Man, usually ha- to shiepi home his transistor-.powered armor for recharging' after. light. Since? his. hurt. (chewedi Upt hr Wet-' Cosig: bullets). ii also tnnsistorjze&. this tendito be's.

tricky business Daredevil revival. of famou, comic book name, is now. the world, only. hlini masked hero He struggles through witip his indomitabl, will' and, ?radar senses"
come a
a

acquired by getting' run over with a truckful of uranium. Equally' indomitable ii the unshaven, cigar-chomping Nick

Sg,. Fsr cud his Fu,y Jcngo/ S.HJ.j.L.D A black eye-patch distinguish,, the post-war Fury from his military self.. However; Captain America. that fighting hero of World War II, comes on more like Captain Anomie these Jays, Returning to action in 1963. after 1$ of

Fairy,

who function.

liowAs,

simultaneously,

in-

Commandos,

and Nick.

years

sus

pended animation in an iceburg, he does more brooding uiver his Jestiny than any Captain since Ahab. "The TIME I live in belong, to others, ilie only thing that's right tully mine is my PAST. Can I ever forget BUCKY, the teenager who was like a brother to me? \Vhat ha. become ·f SGT. DUFFY?" Lee always provides full backstage credits for these
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