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Originally posted by Fat Cramer:
They could just list all their top-flight writers and artists on the cover of each issue to ensure maximum sales. Comics by Committee.

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A v X.

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Originally posted by Fat Cramer:

Isn't this rampant in academia too? The prof takes credit for a paper when the grad students did all the work. Different motivation, same practice.

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you really have to be careful that's for sure. Most Professors I am involved with seem really generous though.

But in academic publishing it is more about name order. I can't imagine a prof would risk not crediting someone's work.

[ November 21, 2012, 04:00 AM: Message edited by: Power Boy ]
 

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Posted by Power Boy on :
 
I wonder what the big names think though ... when a crappy story comes out, or even just lower quality, with their name on it.

They must act more like editors ... skimming to make sure it generally fits the company's decided storyline for the book.

Maybe writing is just changing ... editorial decides the general plots for the books now, and hires people to execute them.
 

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Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
 
I suppose there's also been quite a bit of the opposite phenomenon of not crediting someone even though they contributing significant ideas to a story, but didn't literally write it, over the years.
 

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Posted by Set on :
 
And then the writing a story and refusing to be credited for it, like Justine Thyme in Threeboot LSH #50!

[Also a good example of lying solicits, since the solicits for the story bore little resemblance to what was released, and the solicits continued to be wrong *months* after the actual story was released to stores...]
 

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Posted by Lard Lad on :
 
Going further back, it seems that Marvel's old habit of putting "Stan Lee Presents..." on the credits of each of their books was a lot like this. In fact I've seen splashy trailers for movies put something like "Steven Spielberg Presents..." and the like to create a false expectation in the audience.
 

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Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
Yeah, the Stan Lee Presents things was always pretty outrageous. Especially since Stan still lies about how much involvement he had in creating so many things.
 

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Posted by Set on :
 
Half the fun of Stan Lee is that he's such an egregious caricature of himself. The man has no shame, and, like William Shatner, has lost all sense of the man he is and the eccentric role he's been playing all these years.

Set approves of this.
 

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Originally posted by Power Boy:
I complained before about Batwoman and since JH Williams was the co creator they plastered his name all over the covers ... yet only half (less than half) of the issues were drawn by him. And who knows what he contributed to the plot of the ongoing issues.

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No, from what I understand, him and J. Haden Blackman definitely co-write on Batwoman.
 

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Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
Very timely for this thread, here is an article about perhaps the most dastardly of all cases in comics history featuring false credit. It, of course, is about the greatest villain in comics history, Bob Kane.
 

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Posted by Dev - Em on :
 
Some would say Stan the Man is the greatest villain Cobie...but I guess there is room for one at both DC and Marvel.


 

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Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
Yeah, Stan for me personally is the worst of the worst. But with Kane you have Bill Finger dying in poverty as a lonely depressed alcoholic and that just feels so wrong.
 

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