History CondemnedByHistory / ComicBooks

* For decades, Creator/BobKane was viewed as one of the founding fathers of DC Comics, being widely recognized as the original creator of ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'', and enjoying a long career as a writer on the book up until his departure from the company in 1966, with his name so synonymous with the franchise that entire characters were named in reference to him. However, it was always an open secret in the industry that Kane was reliant on ghost-writers, and after his death it became widely known that he in fact had a far smaller role in the creation of Batman than previously believed; having only coined the name and pencilling the comic, and virtually everything people recognized from the character came from the then-uncredited Creator/BillFinger. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF48VTVwM-s Kane would draw, and Finger would write; while it was only Kane who would show Batman to publishers.]] Kane had continually denied and downplayed the involvement of Finger well past the latter's death in 1974, only coming clean in the late-80s before his own death in 1998, and this was the case also for the many ''other'' creators he used under his name over the decades. What's more, additional research discovered that what little actual writing Kane had done himself -- as well as some of his artwork -- was in fact heavily plagiarized from contemporary pulp media of the time; and that he had gone so far as to throw Creator/JerrySiegelAndJoeShuster under the bus when they tried to secure a better contract with DC, then lied about his own age just to get a favorable contract of his own. While Kane's name is still listed in the credits of all ''Batman'' media for legal reasons, he is also viewed as the man who for-all-intents-and-purposes stole the credit for creating Batman while leaving everyone else -- especially Bill Finger -- in the dust, and creating very little of artistic merit by his own hand. And as of 2015, [[MyRealDaddy Finger's name has been added to the aforementioned credits, in spite of him never having been listed as such in the original work]].

* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' has a huge critical and commercial success, it was nominated for an Eisner, Diamond Comic Distributor Gem, and Scream Awards from 2008 to 2010, and a film adaptation that would later become its acclaimed [[Series/TheBoys2019 TV series]] was greenlit only 16 months after the first issue was published. It was praised for its deconstructive nature of superheroes [[OnceOriginalNowCommon in a time when that was still new]] and for it's shock humor. While the comic was initially cancelled after six issues, it was less because of its quality and sales and more because Wildstorm's owner, DC Comics, didn't like that the antagonists were [[CorruptedCharacterCopy Corrupted Character Copies]] of the Justice League, and it was able to continue publication after the rights were sold to Dynamite. However, over time, the comic started to draw heavy scrutiny for it's [[TooBleakStoppedCaring bleak tone]], vulgar humor getting phased out in TheNewTens, the Supes coming off as spiteful [[ShallowParody Shallow Parodies]], the {{Anvillicious}} Anti-Superhero message, and BewareTheSuperman becoming a pretty cliched approach to superhero deconstruction in recent years. It also didn't help that comics like ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' were better received for telling a similar story, but had its deconstruction and satire be [[AffectionateParody more affectionate]]. Now, whenever the comic gets any praise, it's for how it spawned a TV series that's a definitive example of an adaptation being better than its source material.

* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' has a huge critical and commercial success, it was nominated for a Best Comic awards from 2008 to 2010, and a film adaptation that would later become its acclaimed [[Series/TheBoys2019 TV series]] was greenlit only 16 months after the first issue was published. It was praised for its deconstructive nature of superheroes [[OnceOriginalNowCommon in a time when that was still new]] and for it's shock humor. While the comic was initially cancelled after six issues, it was less because of its quality and sales and more because Wildstorm's owner, DC Comics, didn't like that the antagonists were [[CorruptedCharacterCopy Corrupted Character Copies]] of the Justice League, and it was able to continue publication after the rights were sold to Dynamite. However, over time, the comic started to draw heavy scrutiny for it's [[TooBleakStoppedCaring bleak tone]], vulgar humor getting phased out in TheNewTens, the Supes coming off as spiteful [[ShallowParody Shallow Parodies]], the {{Anvillicious}} Anti-Superhero message, and BewareTheSuperman becoming a pretty cliched approach to superhero deconstruction in recent years. It also didn't help that comics like ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' were better received for telling a similar story, but had its deconstruction and satire be [[AffectionateParody more affectionate]]. Now, whenever the comic gets any praise, it's for how it spawned a TV series that's a definitive example of an adaptation being better than its source material.