Take a look at this signed Dawn script

[Trancelikestate]

hey guys, back again. so someone bought me this romero signed dawn script on e-bay. it looks good, and genuine, but i dunno, somethin about it makes me suspicious. it looks like real sharpie but i wanted your opinions. heres a couple quick shots. the sig doesn't look like it's printed, but u never know these days i guess. anyways, whatcha think?

[Bub666]

That looks like a fake to me.

[horrormad]

Yes Romero always puts Stay Scared with his signature.

[Trancelikestate]

yeah, something about it didn't look right to me either. anyone else wanna comment?

[Cody]

thats also not the way he signs my name

[bassman]

I'm not sure about the signature, but what's up with the Dawn04 font?

[Trancelikestate]

I'm not sure about the signature, but what's up with the Dawn04 font? what exactly are u refering to? the text?

[bassman]

what exactly are u refering to? the text? The title Dawn of the Dead. It's the same as one of the posters for Dawn04. Just a little thing that I noticed...

[Trancelikestate]

ah, so it is. man thats lame! hahaha. i think i'll def chalk this one up as a fake.

[Cody]

damn bassman your a true romero fan, never would I have even noticed that

[Philly_SWAT]

Here is a Romero autograph that I have which I personally witnessed him sign. Yours appears similar, but there are some small differences. Also as noted by horromad, every autograph I have ever seen by him does say "stay scared". Look at my pic and judge for yourself.

[DeadJonas190]

I'm not sure about the signature, but what's up with the Dawn04 font? Not only that but the date is wrong, Dawn came out in 78 not 79.

[Mike70]

let's compare with a known sig of romero's. mucking about with handwriting is one of my hobbies and while i don't pretend to be an "expert" by any means, there are certain features of the signature on trance's script that are similar to philly's. the G, A and O are similar. they all 3 have a pretty distinctive sweep (or overhang) beyond where the letter should end (or start). it is the R and the E that don't really match up well to the known signature. the G also has a very large bottom loop in both BUT the G in the known sig has a stop in it, where romero stopped his stroke and started to write again. this stop is missing from trance's. the A is a bit different in trance's - it has a very straight down stroke going into the R (which is nothing like the R in philly's known sig) instead of the curved down stroke that philly's has. the other thing that bothers me about the A is that it has the same curving down stroke in the word "stay" and the word "scared" in philly's. that probably means that that curved downstroke from A into another letter is a very distinctive feature of romero's handwriting. the rest of the letters in "romero" after R all have a very curving bottom to them in the known signature, in trance's they are written in more straight fashion. they have a pretty pronounced downstroke to them instead of the soft curves from one letter to another that the known signature has. i think that the sig on trance's is a rather decent fake. though i will say that it is too bad there isn't a T or D on trance's script, not only are those the two most distinctive letters as handwriting goes, they are also the hardest ones to fake because they have, by far, the most interpretations from person to person.

[krakenslayer]

The script itself is clearly a home-made mock-up done at home by someone who's downloaded the script off script-o-rama - the real, original copy of the shooting script wouldn't say "Written and Directed by George A. Romero, 1979" (wrong year) and would not have fancy graphics on the front page (particularly not in the era before widespead, cheap access to colour printers) - but that doesn't mean he definitely didn't get it signed by George after he put it together... Still, though, I agree with the above poster: a well done fake signature.

[Eagle Eye]

In my opinion the signature is a fake, It looks nothing like Romero's signature and doesnt Romero always sign Stay Scared?