The “Byrne Curse”
Byrne has referenced his alleged tendency to “predict” real-life
events with his comic books, calling it the “Byrne Curse.”[27] In
a letter to Skeptic magazine, he noted a 1977 issue of Marvel
Team-Up depicting a blackout in New York, with a real-life
blackout occurring the month the issue went on sale, six months
after he had drawn it; and an issue of Wonder Woman in which
the death of the superheroine, who is an Amazon princess named
Diana, is presented on the cover as a newspaper front page with
the headline “Princess Diana Dies.” The issue went on sale on a
Wednesday, and Britain’s Diana, Princess of Wales was killed in
an accident three days later.
