Patrick, Thanks for the Bissette link. I find his reports of the reaction to his personal stand on Marvel interesting. I have had a similar experience. In the past I was quite open about my feelings about use of Simon and Kirby material without compensation. But I never asked for a boycott or even for others to agree with me. But nonetheless I had been badly pillored for my comments. So much so that I had decided to not to comment on Gagne’s book. The only reason I deviated from that policy was that Gagne kept using an incorrect statement supposedly from Joe Simon despite his saying in a private email to me that he would stop doing that. When I objected to that, and only that, on the Marvel Masterworks list I once again got pillored.

“Honestly, I don’t see much difference between the cottage economy based on handsome, high-priced reprints of past comics creations that pay nothing to the creators or their heirs — and in this I’m including everything from the Dark Horse Dell reprints to the PreCode horror reprints to the Kirby and Ditko reprint collections to the Archie reprints (and arguably no comics publisher with that company’s longevity has badly used and ill-treated more creators than Archie) to the Fantagraphics reprints to Munden’s Bar and First Comics reprints that pay nothing (having experienced that first-hand with the Munden’s Bar reprint)”