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Marvel comics 'forgot' to credit writer Harlan Ellison for using one of his stories in the Incredible Hulk comic. Harlan could have successfully sued them, but settled for a normal writer's fee and a lifetime subscription to everything Marvel published.

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Prolific writer Harlan Ellison was expelled from college for hitting a professor who had denigrated his writing ability, and over the next 20-odd years he sent that professor a copy of every single story he published.

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1. Famous writer Harlan Ellison wrote an episode of The Flying Nun simply so he could try to have sex with Sally Field.

2. Writer Harlan Ellison was expelled from college for hitting a professor who had denigrated his writing ability, and over the next 20-odd years he sent that professor a copy of every single story he published.

3. Sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison once mailed a publishing house 213 bricks and forced them to pay for it, and then later mailed them a dead gopher with a recipe for braised gopher stew, 4th class mail, over a contract dispute.

4. Writer Harlan Ellison once worked for Disney for "more money than anyone had ever offered him for anything". Also, a private parking space, office and secretary. Bored, he joked with co-workers about doing a porn Disney flick and gave colorful details. Four hours later he had a pink slip.

5. Harlan Ellison was one of the first writers to be recruited by Gene Roddenberry for Star Trek. Rather than being assigned a pre-written premise, Ellison was allowed to develop his own and the result was the Hugo award winning "The City on the Edge of Forever".

6. James Cameron was sued by writer Harlan Ellison, for plagiarizing two of Ellison's episodes, of the TV show The Outer Limits. The movie Cameron made based on those shows...The Terminator.

7. Fiction writer Harlan Ellison played himself in the Scooby Doo! Mystery Inc. cartoon.