The World vs Todd McFarlane by Daniel Best
"To DC Comics I talked to a man named Denny O'Neil, who was the editor of Batman, about doing a Batman/Medieval Spawn book and talked to Mike Carlin, who was the editor of the Justice League titles, about doing an Angela crossover at DC and talked to a man called Chris Claremont, who was an editor at Marvel about doing an Angela/X-Men. "l started talking to DC Comics and to Marvel Comics," Gaiman told the court.
As Gaiman would author them, both companies were very receptive. The clauses pertaining to Angela were important for Gaiman, as he'd already broached the possibility of Batman/Angela and Phoenix/Angela crossovers with DC Comics and Marvel respectively. That you will make your best efforts to ensure that there is a "created by Neil & Todd" credit for Angela in her appearances in other comics, or other media." That I have, exclusive of any other Angela projects I might do with the Todd McFarlane division of Image, the rights to do a one-off Angela comics project, and a one-off Medieval Spawn project, on each of which I would keep 100% of the revenue: that if these are team-up projects they could go to other comics companies, but if they exclusively feature the character in the title, I agree to do them with Image (although not necessarily with you). And what Neil Gaiman's plans were back then. I'be just been reading up on some of the details I was previously unaware of regarding the battle between McFarlane and Neil Gaiman over a) the ownership of Angela, Coglistro and Medieval Spawn and b) the ownership of Miracleman.
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