Ah! Jeffrey Trexler explains to me how it is that the photo of Shel Dorf accompanying his New York Times obit sports a copyright for DC Comics even though the photo contains no DC properties. I've been looking at the online obit. The one in the print newspaper — apparently, they still have those — has two photos, the other being a shot of Himon, a character Jack Kirby based on Shel and inserted into an issue of the Mister Miracle comic. That panel should display a DC copyright since it is a DC comic book. For the online obit, they omitted one photo but kept the caption that went with both photos. Thanks, Jeff. I knew there was an explanation.