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Through the policy of corporate ownership, the industry erased the individual author (and past versions of the superhero’s story) and created a sense of collective ownership that stresses currency over primacy. In fact, even when variations are recognized as such, they are often valued by the public as much as the “official” version (with “imaginary” stories of superheroes in the 1960s culminating in the Ultimate and All Star lines of comic books). Consumers of comic book stories demonstrate tendencies characteristic of people within an oral culture through their almost pathological desire to return to the superhero’s origin; repetition is privileged and this repetition reinforces the basic truths of the story and the fan community.
Because of the success of the strips and the ability to produce them in book form at a low cost, Max Gaines convinced Dell Publishing to take its lead from the multipage comic inserts in newspapers and produce Famous Funnies (essentially a collection of comic strips that was wildly successful in the newspapers). 12 By the late 1930s, newspaper syndicates were no longer selling rights to their comic strip material but, instead, worked to publish their own collections. As would be the case with characters later created as original material for comic books, the syndicates, not their creators, owned their comic strip characters: a standard practice of those companies.
The singer performs in various circumstances but is always subject to the limitations of the audience, the attentions of the audience, and the ability to reproduce the poem with integrity (131–132). Delivery of the song is extremely fast with complex musical components reassembled from memory; often familiar with the songs themselves, the audience interacts with the singer through their participation and their opinion of the singer’s arrangement (16–17). Incredibly important in Parry and Lord’s work is the idea that every epic poem does not have an original point of composition but that every performance is the composition of the poem.