Comments on: Silver Surfer vs. the US Mint!!! http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/29/silver-surfer-vs-the-us-mint/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:49:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: RH Goodfellow http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/29/silver-surfer-vs-the-us-mint/#comment-2143958 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:51:52 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/29/silver-surfer-vs-the-us-mint/#comment-2143958 The FBI raided Liberty Mint and confiscated Ron Paul Dollars, which are not and never claimed to be legal tender, but probably never even fined 20th Century Fox or the Franklin Mint.... Oh, maybe it's because Liberty Mint is also the mint of the Royal Hawai'ian Government, and the US is p*$$!@d that Bill Clinton apologized to the Kingdom of Hawai'i's illegal overthrow by the USA, but hey, I read comic books about Skrull invasions, what would I know, right? The FBI raided Liberty Mint and confiscated Ron Paul Dollars, which are not and never claimed to be legal tender, but probably never even fined 20th Century Fox or the Franklin Mint…. Oh, maybe it’s because Liberty Mint is also the mint of the Royal Hawai’ian Government, and the US is p*$$!@d that Bill Clinton apologized to the Kingdom of Hawai’i’s illegal overthrow by the USA, but hey, I read comic books about Skrull invasions, what would I know, right?

]]> by: RH Goodfellow http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/29/silver-surfer-vs-the-us-mint/#comment-2143951 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:51:42 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/29/silver-surfer-vs-the-us-mint/#comment-2143951 The FBI raided Liberty Mint and confiscated Ron Paul Dollars, which are not and never claimed to be legal tender, but probably never even fined 20th Century Fox or the Franklin Mint.... Oh, maybe it's because Liberty Mint is also the mint of the Royal Hawai'ian Government, and the US is p*$$!@d that Bill Clinton apologized to the Kingdom of Hawai'i's illegal overthrow by the USA, but hey, I read comic books about Skrull invasions, what would I know, right? The FBI raided Liberty Mint and confiscated Ron Paul Dollars, which are not and never claimed to be legal tender, but probably never even fined 20th Century Fox or the Franklin Mint…. Oh, maybe it’s because Liberty Mint is also the mint of the Royal Hawai’ian Government, and the US is p*$$!@d that Bill Clinton apologized to the Kingdom of Hawai’i’s illegal overthrow by the USA, but hey, I read comic books about Skrull invasions, what would I know, right?

]]> by: RH Goodfellow http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/29/silver-surfer-vs-the-us-mint/#comment-2143950 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:51:36 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/29/silver-surfer-vs-the-us-mint/#comment-2143950 The FBI raided Liberty Mint and confiscated Ron Paul Dollars, which are not and never claimed to be legal tender, but probably never even fined 20th Century Fox or the Franklin Mint.... Oh, maybe it's because Liberty Mint is also the mint of the Royal Hawai'ian Government, and the US is p*$$!@d that Bill Clinton apologized to the Kingdom of Hawai'i's illegal overthrow by the USA, but hey, I read comic books about Skrull invasions, what would I know, right? The FBI raided Liberty Mint and confiscated Ron Paul Dollars, which are not and never claimed to be legal tender, but probably never even fined 20th Century Fox or the Franklin Mint…. Oh, maybe it’s because Liberty Mint is also the mint of the Royal Hawai’ian Government, and the US is p*$$!@d that Bill Clinton apologized to the Kingdom of Hawai’i’s illegal overthrow by the USA, but hey, I read comic books about Skrull invasions, what would I know, right?

]]> by: Patrick Dean http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/29/silver-surfer-vs-the-us-mint/#comment-174140 Wed, 30 May 2007 13:53:18 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/29/silver-surfer-vs-the-us-mint/#comment-174140 I was hoping this would be an embossed image of the Silver Surfer, and then they'd move on to do Wyatt Wingfoot and Molecule Man quarters. I was hoping this would be an embossed image of the Silver Surfer, and then they’d move on to do Wyatt Wingfoot and Molecule Man quarters.

]]> by: M. Lusk http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/29/silver-surfer-vs-the-us-mint/#comment-173161 Tue, 29 May 2007 19:59:54 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/29/silver-surfer-vs-the-us-mint/#comment-173161 Cody:"While I don’t doubt that it’s true, how come I never hear about the government going after that www.wheresgeorge.com site?" No kidding! It was probably a calculated move to get maximum media attention. The roll-out certainly wasn't as high profile as you'd expect with a promotion like this. So they may have to pay a fine that wouldn't come close to the standard cost of all this publicity that's been generated! :) Reminds me a bit of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare a few months back. Except nobody's likely to be scared by these quarters... Cody:”While I don’t doubt that it’s true, how come I never hear about the government going after that www.wheresgeorge.com site?”

No kidding!
It was probably a calculated move to get maximum media attention. The roll-out certainly wasn’t as high profile as you’d expect with a promotion like this.
So they may have to pay a fine that wouldn’t come close to the standard cost of all this publicity that’s been generated! :)
Reminds me a bit of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare a few months back.
Except nobody’s likely to be scared by these quarters…

]]> by: Cody http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/29/silver-surfer-vs-the-us-mint/#comment-173057 Tue, 29 May 2007 19:00:40 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/29/silver-surfer-vs-the-us-mint/#comment-173057 "But shockingly, putting an ad on legal tender is against the law!" While I don't doubt that it's true, how come I never hear about the government going after that www.wheresgeorge.com site? “But shockingly, putting an ad on legal tender is against the law!”

While I don’t doubt that it’s true, how come I never hear about the government going after that www.wheresgeorge.com site?

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