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==Controversies== ===Payment of creators=== After their contract with Eclipse ended in 1988, manga translator [[Toren Smith]]'s Studio Proteus signed with Dark Horse. Finding his income suddenly increasing despite similar sales, Smith instigated an audit of Eclipse's finances, revealing the keeping of [[two sets of books]] to avoid paying the agreed royalties. A large judgement was eventually made against Eclipse, the losses from which were a factor in the company's strained finances.<ref name=KNG>{{cite book |last=Khoury |first=George |author-link=George Khoury (author)|date=2001 |title=Kimota! The Miracleman Companion |url= |location= |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |page= |isbn=9781605490274|chapter=Ages of Gold, Silver and the Darkness}}</ref> [[Garry Leach]],<ref name=KGL>{{cite book |last=Khoury |first=George |author-link=George Khoury (author)|date=2001 |title=Kimota! The Miracleman Companion |url= |location= |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |page= |isbn=9781605490274|chapter=The Architect of Miracleman}}</ref> [[Dez Skinn]],<ref name=KDS>{{cite book |last=Khoury |first=George |author-link=George Khoury (author)|date=2001 |title=Kimota! The Miracleman Companion |url= |location= |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |page= |isbn=9781605490274|chapter=Reign of the ''Warrior'' King}}</ref> [[Alan Davis]],<ref name=KAD>{{cite book |last=Khoury |first=George |author-link=George Khoury (author)|date=2001 |title=Kimota! The Miracleman Companion |url= |location= |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |page= |isbn=9781605490274|chapter=Magic Words and Marvelmen}}</ref> [[Neil Gaiman]],<ref name=KNG/> [[Mark Buckingham (comic book artist)|Mark Buckingham]],<ref name=KMB>{{cite book |last=Khoury |first=George |author-link=George Khoury (author)|date=2001 |title=Kimota! The Miracleman Companion |url= |location= |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |page= |isbn=9781605490274|chapter=Buckingham and An Age of Miracles}}</ref> [[Dave Stevens]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/15stevens.html|title=Comic Book Artist Magazine #15 - Dave Stevens Interview - TwoMorrows Publishing|website=twomorrows.com}}</ref> and [[Mike Deodato]]<ref name=KNG/> have all gone on the record to state they were either not paid or not paid correctly for work with Eclipse, while Davis has also stated his work was published without his permission.<ref name=KAD/> ===Lawsuits=== In 1992, the convicted [[serial killer]] [[Kenneth Bianchi]], one-half of the pair known as the [[Hillside Strangler]]s, sued Yronwode for [[USD]]$8.5 million for having an image of his face depicted on a trading card; he claimed his face was his trademark. The judge dismissed the case after ruling that, if Bianchi had been using his face as a trademark when he was killing women, he would not have tried to hide it from the police.<ref>"Serial Killer Sues Trading Card Maker", ''San Jose Mercury News,'' December 18, 1992</ref><ref>"Card-Carrying Rebels: Two Guerrilla Journalists Turn Crime and Crises into Camp Collectibles" by Kathleen Donnelly, ''San Jose Mercury News'' (newspaper), January 10, 1993</ref> Eclipse was also a plaintiff when [[Nassau County, New York]], seized a crime-themed trading card series of theirs under a county ordinance prohibiting sales of certain trading cards to minors.<ref>"Nassau County Limits Sale of Crime Trading Cards". ''The New York Times'' (newspaper), June 16, 1992</ref> The case, in which Yronwode testified and the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] provided Eclipse's representation, reached the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit|2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals]]. It ruled against the county, overturning the ordinance.<ref>"Nassau Is Faulted for Law Over Killer Trading Cards", ''The New York Times'' (newspaper), October 17, 1995</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/Speech/arts/topic.aspx?topic=comix |title=Arts & First Amendment Issues: Comic Books |publisher=[[First Amendment Center]] |access-date=2006-09-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20041221024840/http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/speech/arts/topic.aspx?topic=comix |archive-date=December 21, 2004 |df=mdy }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1129335.html |title=ECLIPSE ENTERPRISES INC v. GULOTTA | FindLaw |work=caselaw.findlaw.com |year=2015|access-date=17 October 2015}}</ref>
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