Black Eye for DC...
AP-CS-10-16-98 0419EDT SCHULENBURG, Texas (AP) - The envelope may as well have contained Kryptonite. It was a letter from Superman's bosses with a simple warning to Schulenburg High School: Stop using his logo.
DC Comics, a subsidiary of Warner Bros., informed the school it must stop using the company's copyrighted Superman logo within a year.
The familiar "S" set within a shield appears on football helmets, uniforms, class rings and even the school district's letterhead.
The company's stance might end up costing the school a bundle. "We're a poor school district," said Michael Bonner, the superintendent of Schulenburg Independent School District. ``We don't want to have to buy new uniforms next year.''
The district will ask Warner Brothers if the high school can continue using uniforms that cannot be altered cheaply. DC Comics attorney Lillian Laserson did not immediately return a phone message.
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Anti-Semitic comic recalled from racks
NEW YORK (JTA) - Marvel Comics has recalled a comic book that contains an anti-Semitic slur.
The latest issue of Wolverine, which went on sale on Yom Kippur, includes a scene in which a character refers to an adversary as "the kike known as Sabretooth."
A spokeswoman for Marvel said it was a "grave mistake," adding that the passage should have read "the killer known as Sabretooth."
"We're very, very sorry it happened, and we're taking measures to make sure nothing like this ever happens again," she said.
She added that the slur was discovered Tuesday, after the issue had been sent to retailers.
The incident comes just three months after rival DC Comics was criticized for an issue that depicted Superman fighting the horrors of the Holocaust, but which omitted any references to Jews in the story.
October 10, 1998
PARIS (AP) - Chang Chong-Jen, who told the author of Tintin comic books about the realities of a China oppressed by foreign forces in the 1930s and became one of the characters, has died. He was 93.
The artist-sculptor died of complications from a cold on Thursday at an artists' retirement home in Nogent-sur-Marne, outside Paris, said sources close to Chang.
In "The Blue Lotus," Chang helped Tintin's author Herge, the pen name of Belgian-born George Remi, to break the stereotypic style that characterized his earlier work as in "Tintin in the Congo," and to take a political tack.
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