Take, for example, this bromide from Joe Brancatelli in the January 1977 issue of Vampirella, opining that the death of Charlton Comics foretold the END OF ALL COMICS:
...several paragraphs later...
Yup, Warner had no hope of ever making money off of Superman, Batman, etc. Just sell those unprofitable comics and merchandising right and movie rights off, guys.That's probably one of the things Superboy-Prime fixed when he punched the universe...
It was a simpler time when 75M wasn't petty cash to a company like the WB.
ReplyDelete...and before those those "unprofitable publishing divisions" could generate $200 in 3 days...
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