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Originally Posted by ATDrake
No, I found that out after doing a bit of digging, as it turns out that while Action Comics #1 was treated as a work for hire by the company and everyone else, it seems, it actually wasn't as Siegel & Shuster did not create the Superman story specifically on commission for them or however it works, but they brought a pre-existing written-and-drawn comic to the publisher who said they wanted to publish it but needed to re-arrange the story to fit the issue.
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Just a note on this specific issue, I was under the impression from reading a lot of Writers' Market entries that the wording on the contract trumped whether or not the work was pre-existing. As in, "Any unsolicited works will be treated as a work for hire."
S&S just got lucky with their contract.