The reason Gold Medal paid so well was that they paid a
royalty on the print run, not on copies sold. Some of those
guys, like Prather (and even guys you may never have heard
of, like Richard Himmel) were selling in the millions, so the
print runs must have been huge.
Bill Crider
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