Definition: A comic book that is creator owned is a comic book where the person making the comic - usually the writer or artist - owns the stories, characters, plots, and has all licensing rights to the product. Most material from the larger publishers, like Marvel or DC are not creator owned. But generally independent comic books are.
Intersting Fact"30 Days of Night" creator Steven Niles was paid one million dollars for the film rights to his independent comic.
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A person with a creator owned comic book can do whatever they like with it.
