Whats the variation on Zartans file card?
The first version of Zartan’s filecard had a psychological profile: “Extreme paranoid schizophrenic. Grows into various personalities…” This drew protests that it was a mistake to say that schizophrenia is the same as MPD (multiple personality disorder). Hasbro later released a second version of the filecard without the psychological profile. Larry Hama – who wrote the filecard – explained that: “I never implied that they were one and the same. I simply said Zartan was both. The confusion is by inference. A friend of mine, who was the head of NYU outpatient psychiatrics at the time quipped to me, ‘You should have known they were going to get upset, they are, after all, PARANOID!
The first version of Zartan’s filecard had a psychological profile: “Extreme paranoid schizophrenic. Grows into various personalities…” This drew protests that it was a mistake to say that schizophrenia is the same as MPD (multiple personality disorder). Hasbro later released a second version of the filecard without the psychological profile. Larry Hama – who wrote the filecard – explained that: “I never implied that they were one and the same. I simply said Zartan was both. The confusion is by inference.
