I've got some of the dumbest ones imaginable:
1. People who mispronounce "John Constantine" as "John Constan
teen".
2. The term "graphic novel". They're comic books. And a collection of comic books is a trade paperback.
Alan Moore said:
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them "Big Expensive Comics.”
I'm pretty sure a fan came up with the term, not DC, but whatever.
3. People who can't read comic cover dates correctly. The cover date's not the date the book was published; it's there there to let retailers know when to return unsold copies of the book.
Fantastic Four 1, for example, a monthly publication, has a cover date of November (of 1961), which means that it was published and on sale in August (August 8, 1961 to be specific).
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=40952
4. People who think that
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 8 is the first appearance of Spider-Man's black costume.
Amazing Spider-Man 252's the actual first appearance and it hit retail eight months before
Secret Wars 8.
Secret Wars takes place in-between the December of 1983 and January of 1984 Marvel comics and was published over the course of '84 monthly as a flashback, which makes
Secret Wars 8 the black costume's 40th-somthing appearance.
5. Marvel's constant promotion of the outright lie that Stan Lee is the primary creator of the Marvel Universe (especially concerning Spider-Man, who was created and originally plotted, scripted, and drawn by Steve Ditko based on an idea by Simon and Kirby).
The infamous Gary Groth interview with Jack Kirby
Gene Colan on working with Lee:
Wallace Wood on working with Lee:
There's dozens more examples.
And the same goes for DC for falsely promoting Bob Kane, and not Bill Finger, as the creator of Batman.