Write a huge check to buy a smaller check

[dan bailey]

You don't think the early comic book companies often tended to be basically little more than mob fronts?

I'm not aware that it's really even in dispute among those with even a slight acquaintance (which is certainly all I lay claim to) with the industry's beginnings.

Guess that doesn't include everybody, though.

[USArmyParatrooper]

You don't think the early comic book companies often tended to be basically little more than mob fronts?

I'm not aware that it's really even in dispute among those with even a slight acquaintance (which is certainly all I lay claim to) with the industry's beginnings.

Guess that doesn't include everybody, though.

I've heard it claimed that DC was a mob front, but I don't put credence in rumors without evidence. Still, the check was written March 1st, 1938 which was actually a month before Action 1 was published. At that part Superman certainly wasn't worth killing over. Hell, for all they knew he could have ended up being a flop.

[dan bailey]

I thought everyone knew the mob employed precogs.

Or maybe I'm confusing "reality" with Philip K. Dick's oeuvre again. I hate it when that happens.

[Jezebel Bond]

Always wondered why Americans spell it check...I spell it cheque

Although if I'm being written a 'check' I don't care once I can cash it..

[dan bailey]

Never really studied the matter, but I presume that's one of the British spellings that, IIRC, Noah Webster changed just, I guess, because he could. See also, of course, kerb, gaol, tyre & probably a whole bunch of others that apparently y'all use that we don't. At least "check" & "color" are shorter; the American spellings of the others aren't.

[USArmyParatrooper]

Always wondered why Americans spell it check...I spell it cheque

Although if I'm being written a 'check' I don't care once I can cash it..

At least we spell the words "bloody" and "wanker" the same.

[Kid Montana]

I've heard it claimed that DC was a mob front, but I don't put credence in rumors without evidence. Still, the check was written March 1st, 1938 which was actually a month before Action 1 was published. At that part Superman certainly wasn't worth killing over. Hell, for all they knew he could have ended up being a flop.

Comic books in general were a new media that could have just as easily failed to catch on. Nobody would have cried over National/DC losing a bunch of money on the venture.