FFF Results Post #499—Bad Guys

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Comics INDUSTRY Villains As Perceived At Some Point Over The Last 100 Years By A Chunk Of The Wider Comics Industry And/Or Fan Culture." This is how they responded.

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J. Scott Stewart

1. Victor Fox -- "King a' Da Comics!" (ganked from Drew Friedman's great image; I hope it's okay)
2. Mort Weisinger -- abusive editor
3. Jim Shooter -- polarizing editor, talented writer
4. Liebowitz and Donenfeld -- screwing Wheeler-Nicholson and Siegel/Shuster
5. Bob Kane -- denying credit to Finger and ghost artists

Honorable(?) Mention: Frank Miller for The Spirit movie

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Andrew Mansell

1. Dave Sim
2. Jim Shooter
3. Terry Beatty's girlfriend (whom I'm not!)
4. Julie Schwartz (pictured)
5. Al Capp

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Michael Grabowski

1. Dave Sim (pictured)
2. Martin Goodman
3. Rob Liefeld
4. Danny Hellman or Ted Rall, depending on one's allegiance
5. The Comics Journal message board

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Michael Dooley

1. Al Capp
2. Francisco Franco
3. Walt Disney
4. Robert Crumb (pictured)
5. Said Kouachi

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Steve Replogle

1. Carmine Infantino (for canceling Jack Kirby's Fourth World)
2. Mike Richardson (for canceling Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller)
3. Jim Lee (for ruining the 1963 Annual in a pissing contest with the other Image creators)
4. Jenette Kahn (for canceling Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing meets Jesus story) (pictured)
5. Richard Corben (for putting Den in pants in Den: Dreams and Den:Elements!)

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Frederic Wertham
2. Gary Groth And Kim Thompson
3. Gershon Legman
4. Moms That Throw Out All Of One's Collected Comic Books
5. The Batman TV Show (pictured)

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Lou Copeland

The Three Headed Monster of DC Editorial:
1. Mort Weisinger
2. Bob Kanigher (pictured)
3. Julie Schwartz
Somebody PLEASE do a book on these guys.

4. Jim Shooter
5. People that fold back the pages along the spine as they read comics.

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Oliver Ristau

1. Variant covers
2. Estes Kefauver
3. The internet
4. Comics criticism
5. SJWs (pictured)

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Danny Ceballos

1. Stan Lee
2. Todd McFarlane
3. James "Cute Manifesto" Kochalka (pictured)
4. Alan Moore
5. R. Crumb

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Tim Hayes

1. Robert Maxwell
2. Mort Weisinger
3. Rob Liefeld (pictured)
4. Stan Lee
5. Shia LaBeouf

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Buzz Dixon

1. The Comics Code (pictured)
2. Rick Olney
3. Jim Shooter
4. Todd McFarlane
5. Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo for causing those WWII paper drives

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thanks to all that participated

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