Jack Kirby’s four children have served 45 notices of termination to Marvel, Disney, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures. The notices express intent to regain copyrights, some as early as 2014. Jack Kirby and Stan Lee co-created many of Marvel’s famous heroes including: “Thor”, “Iron Man”, “X-Men”, and “The Fantastic Four”. [...]
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Review:Ex Occultus Badge of Langavat
The guys at Saint James have published the first story in the Ex Occultus series, the one shot: Badge of Langavat. It’s 1864 and village children have gone missing. Occult hunter Francis Wakefield (the series lead) and Fergus Duff are determined to rescue them from the cursed Langavat clan. The Langavats believe that sacrificing the [...]
DC Entertainment Formed
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. has created DC Entertainment Inc., a new company founded to fully realize the power and value of the DC Comics brand and characters across all media and platforms, to be run by Diane Nelson. DC Entertainment, a separate division of WBEI, will be charged with strategically integrating the DC Comics business, [...]
Disney To Acquire Marvel
The proposed transaction, still needs regulatory approval, will give Disney the ownership of 5,000 Marvel characters (which will be overseen by Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter) Under the proposed deal Disney will pay $30 in cash and about three-quarters of a Disney share for each share of Marvel. The total value of the Disney stock issued [...]
2009 Harvy Awards
The 2009 Harvey Award nominations were announced yesterday. Below are a few of the categories. For a full list of nominees and for a copy of the ballot visit their site. Among the nominees are our friends Tony Trovarello and Johnny Zito creators of The Black Cherry Bombshells for Best On-line Comics Work. BEST WRITER [...]
New Web Comic: The Futurists
The Futurists is a new web comic created by Mitch Breitweiser and Patrick Stiles. The first eposide has just been published so now is the time to check it out. “Set in colonial India in the late 1800’s, The Futurists is an epic tome about the quest for eternal life gone horribly wrong, the search [...]
Steve Rogers Is Back In Captain America Reborn
Marvel is bringing back Steve Rogers two years after his death. On July first the limited series Captain America Reborn will hit comic shops.