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Subject: stolen artwork
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Danny Hellman is right, Jack did steal some original artwork from Rick
Veitch. Rick sent it to him expecting jack to publish it but he never
did. Instead Venooker sold it on ebay. below is jack's version of the
story but it's obviously bullshit. Veitch, who owns Comicon.com or
Steve Bissette will know the truth so you may want to contact them
about it.

'Anyway...the "stolen artwork" refers to my original troll of
Comicon.com over 15 years ago, I believe. Someone "stole" some of
"steves" Swamp Thing artwork from the DC offices. Still hasn't ever
been recovered. I owned a splash page from one of the issues that
steve drew, and I was selling it on eBay (got 850) for it. There was a
HUGE to do about it being one of the stolen pages (and Rick knew it
wasn't stolen, but was hungry for hits to the fledgling site at the
time) so he let the controversy simmer until Steve himself got
involved on the boards, explained that I not only owned the work, but
had the right to sell it. Pissed off Rick pretty righteously. I was so
pissed at the treatment I received that I decided to troll the fuck
out of the board as a result. I was extremely successful, since the
Gutters were created to "contain" the type of posting I became
"infamous" for.'- Jack V