I knew Ken Penders was a massive reason that everything changed for the Sonic series at Archie comics and was the start of Archie losing the licence a few years later,
but I had no idea how badly he screwed them over. Claiming rights for nearly 250 separate characters, including alternate versions and ones he didn't actually create or whatever.
But then one footnote really got me. He created one character but decided not to claim her, but claimed her robot version so he could claim all other robot versions of characters.
What a Douche