Years ago, during the early days of my tenure as Marvel’s Editor in Chief, one of our competitors decided to get extremely aggressive about poaching our talent by throwing some serious cash around.
Take it or leave it.
A creator had to leave Marvel right then and there and in most every single case these creators were right in the middle of commitments with us (FYI this was the beginning of the exclusivity wars).
Except for one.
I don’t resent the other creators who took the deals and had to break their commitments, but I will always remember Ringo as the ONLY creator who kept his.