Also, one in New York, which is how they get away with the "International" part of their name now.

And thanks, that's very interesting! Good stuff for a future piece!

For those of you that not, here's a really interesting appreciation of Lourdes about things that Chris said to Her about being a writer: "Sometimes is like he is a victim of his own profession, because instead of living situations like everyone else, he is compelled, as a writer, to see them from the outside, analyze them and take notes". As an (amateur) writer and drawist I really feel identified with that statement!.
And finally, What's happening with this site? Today is Friday 4/4/08 and all the posts in this Urban Legends page are from a week ago! And this CBULR appears to me like the last one...

A well known tuckerizing case was that Mike Friedrich wrote an angry intense, SF writer, "Harlequin Ellis" into a JLA story in the early seventies. According to a later letter column, Harlan Ellison begged them to use his real name but the legal department demurred.

That Avengers episode--I was too young to stay up and see it but I remember thinking a Queen of Sin (as they referred to Diana Rigg's outfit) sounded most awfully interesting.

The Hellfire club and the actors Byrne used as their likenesses are even more apparent when you consider the characters' names

And even extra apparent when you go read the Urban Legends entry that breaks it all down...

Anyway, years back I wrote a very rough first draft of a sci-fi novel. No idea if I'll ever try to revise it to make it, well, readable, but in any case, the main character was named after my philosophy professor from college. I also nicked various other names for characters on that one, and another novel I wrote a rough draft for, from writers & actors who worked on Doctor Who

Y'know, one of these days I really should see about trying to revise those two into something workable that might stand half a chance of getting published.

Unfortunately, the people who interview me don't always include the entirety of the interview.

Although it was cut from the interview that, I guess, formed the basis of the wiki entry,I said explicitly that I was told this personally by Elliot S! Maggin, who heard it from both Julie Schwartz AND Gil Kane.

Alan Oirich,
JewishSupers.com

Isn't Nazgul more likely a Lord of the Rings referance ?

But Maxwell Lord? I just figured every white adult male with short neat hair that Kevin Mcguire draws looks like Sam Neil.

The Hellfire club and the actors Byrne used as their likenesses are even more apparent when you consider the character's names:

Emma Frost - Diana Rigg (played 'Emma' Peel)
Donald Pierce - 'Donald' Sutherland (who played Hawkeye 'Pierce' in the movie MASH)
Harry Leland - Orson Welles (one of Welles' most famous roles is as 'Harry' Lime in The Third Man)
Mastermind/Jason Wyngarde - Peter 'Wyngarde' (most famous for playing a character named 'Jason' King)
Sebastian Shaw - Robert 'Shaw'

Tuckerizing (the naming of characters -- and locations -- after friends, acquaintances, and well known people) is quite common in comics, possibly even more so than in prose. I know Peter David does it, for one. I've done it in my prose work (my Andromeda novel is full of Tuckerized characters, and Micah Ian Wright turns up as a character through the back of the book, taking a lot of abuse) and in scripts (one repeatedly optioned script hasn't a single character who isn't a Tuckerization.)

My favorite example in comics, though, would be Steve Gerber's Man-Thing story in the original Marvel Comics Presents, running in issues 1-6 (I think; it might be longer.) Steve put out a call to friends for volunteers to be Tuckerized, and every single character aside from the regular characters is a Tucker; mine is an evial bastard who gets his evial face fried off by Man-Thing.