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In this issue: The Preacher returns, and The Bird turns out to be The Word. Jack called and he wants his stuff back, Muppets take flight, Zorro hooks up with a fox, and there’s some butt=kicking going on. Plus, who you gonna call? Sure as heck better not be these guys, the Major Spoilers Podcast is on the air!
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If your a Marvel fan, and laugh with glee every time you hear the next chapter in the Siegel/Warner Bros. lawsuit, then that grin may quickly fade after news that the Jack Kirby estate has served notice to Marvel, Disney, Sony, Universal, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount Pictures, that it is terminating copyright.
It all boils down the Kirby estate trying to regain the rights of the characters Kirby created (a very extensive list that includes Captain America, The Fantastic Four, X-Men, The Avengers, Iron Man, Hulk, The Silver Surfer, and Thor, among others) and make money off someone. If the suit is successful, everything would hit the fan in 2014, when Kirby would own the copyright, but Marvel/Disney would own any trademarks.
Interestingly, the same law firm that represents the Siegel estate, Toberoff & Associates, is also representing the Kirby estate. Now sounds like a good time to be a dead creator that has a family looking to score big of changes in company structure and copyright law.
What will be the upshot of all of this? Millions spent in the courtroom trying to settle this argument, with the estate walking away with millions more, and the publisher still producing comic books feature the characters in question.
UPDATE: Here is Marvel’s official statement on the termination notice.
“Marvel received the termination notices and is reviewing the information and has no additional comment at this time.”
Yikes. Sounds like it took them by surprise.
To continue the theme of Disney/Marvel, comes this piece done by the great Jack Kirby way back in 1991 by Jack Kirby for ‘The Art of Mickey Mouse’.
TwoMorrows Publishing is set to release Kirby Five-Oh! at the New York Comic-Con that features the 50 best things to come from Kirby’s 50 years in comics. Originally scheduled as a softcover book, there has been enough interest in the title for TwoMorrows to release a limited edition hardcover.
The hardcover version features all the original contents of the softcover version, but with a full-color wrapped hardcover, and an individually-numbered extra Kirby art plate not included in the softcover edition.
The hardcover will sell for $34.95, and you can only get it by pre-ordering directly from TwoMorrows.
When the Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Volume 4 ships in March 2008 it will feature the Hunger Dogs with restored to the original inks by Mike Royer.
We are excited to share with readers Kirbys original vision for the epics end in Vol. 4 of the FOURTH WORLD OMNIBUS series, says Georg Brewer, VP Design and DC Direct Creative. This collection features 24 pages at the size that Kirby penciled them, the way they looked before being altered to fit the larger trim size of the HUNGER DOGS graphic novel. Faithfully inked by Mike Royer, these pages are incorporated within the HUNGER DOGS story, which is completely re-colored with a sensibility consistent with the previous OMNIBUS hard covers. Along with the Fourth World character entries he drew for WHOS WHO: THE DEFINITIVE DIRECTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE, these exciting, rarely seen aspects of Kirbys work and this important story make this a must-have for every serious comics collector.
The fourth and final omnibus features the Hunger Dogs, Mister Miracle #10-18, Forever People #11, New Gods #11, and 1984’s New Gods #6.
I’m halfway through the first volume right now, with the second volume waiting in the wings. Didn’t think I was going to like it, but I’m hooked on the collection.
via DC Comics
Image Comics has announced it is holding off on the Jack Kirby Captain Victory hardcover. The company is doing this so a proper restoration of the classic comic can be properly restored.
“The last thing we want to do is release an inferior version of this material,” Executive Director of Image Comics Eric Stephenson stated. “The more involved we’ve gotten in the restoration process, the more obvious it has become that the files and art we’re working simply aren’t up to par with those used for SILVER STAR. Faced with the decision to either complete a sub-standard edition or do this with the care and fine attention to detail it deserves, we’ve decided to push the book’s release back.”
Apparently, it has been much harder to track down all the original pages for Captain Victory and finding high quality scans of Kirby’s originals. Image Comics will re resoliciting Captain Victory as a 376-page hardcover in 2008.
Image Comics has announced it will release a Captain Victory hardcover collection that will feature the entire 14 issue run. This is the second Kirby collection from the company that previously released Silver Star.
Take the jump for the full cover and more info.
Jack Kirby fans who already don’t own every single thing the man wrote, can now get a heaping helping of Kirby through DC’s Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Volume 1. This edition will feature The New Gods, The Forever People, Mister Miracle, and Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen in chronological order as they originally appeared. We have a sneak peek at the colored pages after the jump.
Image Comics has announced it has collected Jack Kirby’s Silver Star epic and will be selling a hard bound 144-page edition this July.
Originally published during Kirby’s stint with Pacific Comics during the 1980s, SILVER STAR chronicles the rise of Homo-Geneticus, a New Breed of humanity, genetically altered to survive an impending holocaust. Morgan Miller discovers he is Homo-Geneticus when his reality-warping abilities erupt doing his tour of duty in Vietnam. Encased in a silver suit to contain his blossoming powers, Miller is dubbed Silver Star. Another Homo-Geneticus, the nefarious Darius Drumm, is bent on world-domination and vows to slay the others, saving Silver Star for last. What follows is both heartbreaking and explosive. Silver Star faces a deadly adversary like no other in this Kirby classic.
Silver Star is one of the few creations Jack Kirby actually owned.
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