Elliot S. Maggin

the comics company finally agrees to give them pensions, annual pensions of, wait for it, $20,000.

Or, as Elliot S. Maggin said in an article for The Village Voice at the time, they've solved their problem by giving the creators of Superman basically the same amount they're giving their secretaries.

Oh my God.

Wait, so 20K-

Writers were grappling with this as early as 1972.

In Superman number 247, writer Elliot S. Maggin gives us a story literally titled Must There Be a Superman?

I love this concept.

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