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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 1110134" data-attributes="member: 505">To add to the list:After Jim Shooter was forced out of Valient/Acclaim comics, he started another company.  I can't recall the name of it, but one of the books they released was a sci-fi title called Warriors Of Plasm.  After several issues were already out, Marvel released a book called Plasmer and then sued Shooter.  I'm not sure how they managed to sue considering their book came after, but they did.  The whole thing was obviously aimed at crippling Shooter's company out of the gate (and the fact that people at Marvel who worked with Shooter hate his guts personally probably helped).  Anyway, it got tossed out of court, but Shooter didn't have much time to celibrate as his company went under awhile later.  Marvel's Plasmer disappeared shortly thereafter and hasn't been seen since.  Odd that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> Speaking of Marvel, they also sued Dark Horse comics over the comic X.  I can sort of understand Marvel being protective of the "X" being associated with the X-Men, but the case was thrown out due to the simple fact that you can't copyright a letter (and that they couldn't prove Dark Horse was aping X-Men since the character was so different).Marvel also sued whomever is producing the Mutant X series.  Unlike the Dark Horse case, this one definitely has merit.  Dark Horse's X was a grim vigilante without any connection in any way, shape, or form to mutants.  The title, Mutant X, OTOH, just screams, "X-Men!".  And am I the only one who thinks they cast actors due to their resemblance to the cast of the film?I believe they settled out of court and Marvel now has a credit in the series.Another Marvel suit (I'm detecting a trend here <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />), occurred against wrestler Hulk Hogan.  Yes, Marvel claims that the word "hulk" is their property.  Hogan settled and has to pay royalties everytime he uses his name.  In fact, if you look at any wrestling video game he appears in, you can see that "Hulk Hogan" is the "property of Marvel Comics".I doubt that Hogan is thrilled with this and has used other names on and off over the years ("Hollywood" Hogan and Mr. America).DC probably filed the most famous comics-related lawsuit when they sued Fawcett.  They claimed that Captain Marvel was too similar to Superman.For those who don't know, Superman is an alien from the planet Krypton who, disguised as Clark Kent, works for the newspaper, The Daily Planet.  Captain Marvel is a young boy named Billy Batson who says the magic word "Shazam" and is turned into an adult with the powers of the gods.The similarities are mind boggling! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> Actually, the only things they have in common is that they both wear capes, fly, and have black hair.  Oh, and Billy works at a radio station (radio station, newspaper, the same thing).  And the fact that Capt. Marvel was outselling Superman probably had nothing to do with it. One final weird lawsuit was Mattel suing Todd MacFarlane over his toy company.  Originally, it was called Todd's Toys.  However, Barbie has a little brother named Todd and Mattel claimed that it would confuse children.A line of gross, disfigured zombie and monster toys and Barbie's little brother?  Yeah, I can see how the little girls that collect Barbie wouldn't be able to distinguish between the two.BTW, did anyone here even know that Barbie had a little brother or what his name was?</blockquote>

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