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Stan Lee's Stolen Blood Was Used To Sign Marvel Comic Books (tmz.com)
ISoldat53 writes: Someone stole a sample of Stan Lee's blood and stamped comic books with it to increase their value. TMZ reports: "We've learned several 'Black Panther' comic books are currently available at the Marvel Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. store on the Las Vegas Strip. Each edition comes with a certificate of authentication that details the item as a 'Hand-Stamped Signature of STAN LEE using Stan Lee's Solvent DNA Ink.' Stan's friend and partner Keya Morgan discovered the 95-year-old's blood was allegedly stolen back in October after a former business associate presented Lee's nurse with fake docs that authorized that a sample be drawn. Our sources say the nurse pulled enough blood from Stan for him to feel lightheaded and dizzy. We're told the 'Black Panther' comic with Stan's Hancock in blue is selling for $250. The one in gold is twice that at $500. Stan's legal team is currently weighing its options to go after the former business associate who allegedly lifted Lee's blood." Evan Michailidis, a legal rep for the Marvel Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. tells TMZ, "We're a retail store which purchased product from Hands of Respect LLC and DLK Brand Consulting LLC that appeared certified and obtained with authorization. The books were removed from our shelves immediately."
Just reinforces my belief that adults heavily into comics** are more than a little bit weird.
**No, they're not "graphic novels", a novel implies a substantial, long and complex storyline, not small amounts of simplistic text in speech bubbles in something 20 pages long about characters in silly custumes with their underpants on the outside.
I possess the DNA of Stan Lee?! ...
Do you realize what this means?
All I need is a healthy ovum and I can grow my own Stan Lee!
Are any of the comics still available for sale?
I expect this to be the response from most people.
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Bunch of vampires.
If history teaches anything at all, the rather morbid and malevolent withdrawal of blood from a 95 yr old will be punished by ever skyrocketing values these collectibles.
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It could be anyone's blood. Who has the money to check?
How much is needed to give me spider powers?
Quoting hollywood rumor site TMZ. Thanks for nothing Slashdot.
If I sell you a comic signed with what I tell you is Stan Lee's stolen blood, how exactly would you verify provenance? You can't. He isn't going to give you a DNA sample to test against. But I will also sell you a skin scraping to test against for a nominal fee. I guarantee that the samples will match.
In japan manga comics almost always display borderline pre-teen girls in sexy outfits. Hardly the sign of a heathly hobby.
Just because those are the only ones you read, doesn't mean they're the only ones that exist.
"You made KISS use their blood for their book! Now how do ya like it, Mr. Bigshot!"
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
He probably got the idea from a previous Marvel editor who had his ashes made into a comic book.
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I've bought books on my favourite web-comic series but at no point would I consider buying a blood-stained comic-book even appealing. The only way it would make sense would be if it was horror or something nasty in subject but for regular comics an artist or writer's signature with a good pen is good enough. I mean really what's next Stan Lee's half eaten sandwich wedged in there or something?
This story is proof that Capitalists are literally blood-sucking vampires!
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"Hand-stamped"? Like that adds *ANY* more value than machine-stamped? It's still a STAMP for God's sake!
Stan's legal team is currently weighing its options to go after the former business associate who allegedly lifted Lee's blood.
Fraud and theft for Stan's legal team, I would guess. Assault, elderly abuse, more fraud for presenting falsified documents, etc., for the local DA to consider?
Lucky they caught the guy when they did, sounds like the type who would gladly microtome Mr. Lee and sell "premium" comics with a slice each.
I’m not a comics fan, but I lived in Japan during the heyday of manga. Those things were the size of telephone books, and every ordinary business commuter on the subway was reading one.
Not at all trying to downplay this, but some people get lightheaded and dizzy just looking at a needle. Like if my wife goes to the doctor if they stick her odds are she will get lightheaded and dizzy regardless of if they are drawing any blood or not.
In a certain nitpicky way, the above poster happens to be right, simply because in lots of circumstances (ex.: author competition), the difference betwen "short story" and "novel" is defined by the number of words.
By this extremely strict definition, "graphic novel" is simply contradicting the definition of "novel". But on the other hand "graphic short story", in turn, is contradicting the definition of "short" anyway.
But once you throw in the common saying that "a picture is a thousand of words", then suddenly "graphic novel" reach the necessary threshold of words.
(Which is what basically your good explanation about information being conveyed in the visual channel boils down to).
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In japan manga comics almost always display borderline pre-teen girls in sexy outfits. Hardly the sign of a heathly hobby.
I'm impressed. Here I thought you were only ignorant of western culture.
The fact that they even exist in the first place, and have not been driven out of business by popular acclaim, is deeply problematic. What sort of fucked up art form voluntarily fulfills a demand for super-young women nearly nude? There are only so many John and Tony Podestas in the world.
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