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Ted Newsom wrote:

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Why would anyone care if this "stays on the top"?

With all due fondness and a small puzzled dose of respect, I find obsessive collecting of ephemera baffling and downright silly. The fact that some jamokes with far too much available money want to pour it down the drain on sheets of printed paper made before they were born-- that just baffles and infuriates me, when there is a great deal of genuine good that one could do in the world with that money, actions which could help a lot of people rather than to add one more lousy Universal one-sheet to the drawer.

And further, that some of these same jamokes would go goggle-eyed at fake "antique" posters then shell out hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of dollars... with their eyes widening further at the terrific profit they're going to make on this stupid piece of 4-color pulp paper in five years... only to find out it's worth as much as a half-dozen Xeroxes made at Kinko's last week... I feel no sympathy for them, not even sorrow that they blew their dough.

Yes, counterfeiting and fraud is criminal, and those involved ought to be behind bars. But there's some valuable insight in the words of W.C. Fields, as Larsen E. Whipsnade: "You can't cheat an honest man, never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump."

In any case, there's a more appropriate place for this, that would be "Monster Collectibles."

DonM435 wrote:

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If it's just something that you're going to look at -- or worse, file away and NOT look at -- how is a near-perfect fake any worse than the real thing anyway?

TomWeaver999 wrote:

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You know what? If two houses were side by side and I was told, "In the first house, there's an original DRACULA poster -- you know, the poster you've seen 10,000 times in books and magazines -- and in the other house is JerWolf's drawings" -- I'd much rather see the drawings!