Yet another example of DC screwing their creators
Episode of Smallville season 8”plastique” aired sept25TH.

Plastique is a fictional supervillain appearing in comics published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Fury of Firestorm #7 (December 1982), and was created by Gerry Conway and Pat Broderick.
Plastique" Don Whitehead & Holly Henderson Rick Rosenthal
September 25, 2008 4.10[8]
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On Clark's first day at the Daily Planet a bomb on a bus goes off outside the building. Chloe helps one of the injured passengers, Bette, and meets paramedic Davis Bloome. Bette, a homeless teenager, stays with Chloe while Davis contacts a friend who runs a shelter for the homeless. Clark discovers that there was no bomb on the bus, but that someone blew it up with their meteor power. Clark and Lois deduce that Bette is the one with the meteor power, and Clark arrives at the Talon to save Chloe before Bette can hurt her. As Bette heads to Belle Reve, Tess stops by and persuades her to join a group of individuals, who also have meteor powers, that Tess has been forming.

So, would anyone at DC care to explain how these “things” just slip between the cracks….
Aired in September. Plus action figures, plus appearance of my captain Atom {costume which I designed}on how many episodes of the JLA animated series…..
Techmann\Pat Broderick

I seldom watch "Smallville," but I hear about a lot of DC Comics concepts that turn up in the show -- from Green Arrow and Black Canary to Martian Manhunter and Cyborg and Bart Allen/Impulse, and Belle Reve (the super-villain prison that I believe John Ostrander created) and now Plastique (called Bette) -- and it always makes me wonder, do any of the concept creators see any compensation for the use of their works in a lucrative TV show?

I guess the answer is "No."

Yep
and thats the point isn't it.
any comments DC.

Mr. Broderick, I remember reading Firestorm from that first issue you did back in the early eighties (I never got into the original series that preceded it). I clearly remember the Plastique character. And while I remembered you from your earlier Captain Marvel work, I had never seen your art look better. The Firestorm series came out as part of the DC renaissance that began with the New Teen Titans, and your book was a worthy addition to it.

I'm sorry that you haven't been treated as well by DC as you deserve.

The thing is that this has been going on, for me, for over three years now. That’s not an oversight, that’s PLANED.
Pat Broderick

Y'know, it's disappointing and frustrating that DC Comics is mostly valuable to Time Warner because of the characters and concepts it owns, which can be recycled as movies, TV shows, toys, clothes, video games and the like.

But when it's time to share a little money with the men and women who created those characters and concepts -- who basically produced the only real value that DC has -- the response all too often is a slammed door and a "Too bad, if you don't like it, see you in court!"

I mean, think about it, Dan DiDio and the other editorial halfwits at DC Comics don't make anything of value. Guys like Pat and generations of others, who created everything from Superman to Firestorm to the New Teen Titans, are who built DC. And yet, the official view is that they should be ignored unless public outrage or a court insists otherwise.

Was it in the contract that you presumably signed that said you would be rewarded for the subsequent use of any characters that you created for DC?

Is rewarded the best word to use there? I would think "compensated" would be more appropriate.

For guys like me who ask why nobody creates anything new at Marvel or DC anymore, I guess guys like Pat Broderick are the answer.

Why bother creating a new character -- even a minor villain -- if DC is gonna pay you a flat page rate, but then milk that character for big bucks as the years pass in various media?

Marvel and DC comics are so lame because the people who run Marvel and DC are such slime.

And yet: