Spam emails of the Marvel and DC Universes

digresssmlOriginally published April 19, 2002, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1483

My e-mail box is constantly being cluttered with useless material designed either to try and sell you something or else separate gullible people from their money. And it occurs to me that in the universes of comic books, probably the same thing happens. And it might well look something like this: