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TIL that Jim Starlin was paid more in royalties by DC for their use of the KGBeast in BvS, a movie in which the character never wore a comic accurate costume or even called himself KGBeast, than he was by Marvel for Thanos, Nebula, and Gamora in five movies combined.

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