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Old 10-11-2010, 06:52 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by williemeikle View Post
There's that, plus the fact that you need to get the rights from the original owner to write for most of those characters, and they're not available to Joe Public, only to big publishing houses who can afford to pay the fees required.

THAT's why. :-)
Couldn't you just change them a bit? They're mostly archetypal characters that readers would recognise. I'm assuming you didn't have to pay Guy Smith to use giant crabs?
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