Rebellion buys classic comic archive

[Colin YNWA]

Today's Damage Report seems to confirm that 3rdWW and New Statesmen are included in the deal, included as they are in the 3 Lions inspired dittie there in.

[Lobo Baggins]

Today's Damage Report seems to confirm that 3rdWW and New Statesmen are included in the deal, included as they are in the 3 Lions inspired dittie there in.

Yeah, it's looking like it was actually Revolver rather than Crisis that offered the retaining creator-ownership deal.

[moly]

Would be great to have collected starlord, new statesmen etc

[Will Cooling]

Crisis is included in the deal.

[Richard]

The first series of Third World War is one of the best comic stories ever, and deserves a new release. And now that could actually happen! 

[Spikes]

Slightly off track here, so apologies, but it would be nice if Rebellion - and seeing as they are in the mood - could also snag The Last American.

Whilst I cherish the original comics, I've often dreamt that this would get a super-duper HB re-issue.

Was that tale creator owned, or does the original publisher - or even someone else now - own it?

[Mute77]

I was thinking the same thing about The Last American. A classic story-absolutely loved it. I think Com.x own it but havent done much with it. I read somewhere that they released a collected edition but i cannot find it...but yeah would love to see it in the 2000ad fold.

[JOE SOAP]

The Last American is creator owned and was published in a collected paperback in 2004 by com.x whom also published it digitally but neither are available now so maybe it's possible it could be taken to another publisher?

[JOE SOAP]

The Last American. A classic story-absolutely loved it. I think Com.x own it but havent done much with it. I read somewhere that they released a collected edition but i cannot find it...

The collected paperback was hard enough to get when it was first published and it took a while for me to track down a copy so I don't know if many were printed.

Com.x did test trailers for the digital edition -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBVl0YCe9OI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXkLKSU1gLM

[Mute77]

Yeah i assumed it was probably a low print run. I ended up buying the individual issues then the digital version on comixology. A hc from Rebellion would be tops.. I'd not seen those trailers before.

[sheridan]

The Last American as in the Grant/Wagner writing partnership breaking 4-issue series?

[JOE SOAP]

Yes.

[Frank]

Today's Damage Report seems to confirm that 3rdWW and New Statesmen are included in the deal

Yeah, it's looking like it was actually Revolver rather than Crisis that offered the retaining creator-ownership deal.

p.247 of Steve MacManus's book confirms that Fleetway retained copyright on anything commissioned for Crisis. In return for surrendering their copyright, creators were paid a flat fee plus a percentage of sales and syndication.

MacManus highlights his desire to offer creators a better deal, and describes the contract he created for Crisis in detail. If he'd secured creator ownership for Revolver, I'm sure he would have mentioned that as a personal triumph.

It seems reasonable to assume that Revolver strips were included in the deal Tharg struck with IPC/Time, and that he now owns everything from Revolver except Dare*.


* Presumably the DC collection of Rogan Gosh was a licensed reprint

[maryanddavid]

When Revolver was published the copyright read in the small print 'all stories and characters are copyright the credited artists and writers' 
The character Dare is owned now by DDC and IIRC reading that Rian Hughes owns the art. Dare from Revolver is reprinted in his collection 'Yesterdays Tomorrows'

[Frank]

When Revolver was published the copyright read in the small print 'all stories and characters are copyright the credited artists and writers'

As Silent Bomber reminded me on the preceding page of this thread! Cheers, David.