All I want in this remaining lifetime is to see Marvel finally release the entire Master of Kung Fu series as part of their Marvel Essentials books?

Is that too much to damn ask?

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Just to be clear — they’re in the public domain in the US; I believe (but haven’t double-checked) that they are not PD worldwide.

Not according to any history of the situation that I ever read. Marvel had licensed the Fu Manchu property, and credited the creator in the book. I’m not sure by what mechanism you think that something under the public domain was moved back into copyright; that’d be taking something out of the public domain.

(The early Fu Manchu stories are in the public domain.)

And as for Marvel not claiming Shang Chi’s heritage… you may want to check Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #16, published in 2002.

Mauricio, while this will be the third League story released, it won’t be volume 3, but merely ‘The Black Dossier.’ It will be the final thing Moore will ever release through DC/WS. On the other hand, the stories after that, will be called Volume 3: Century and will be released through Top Shelf and Knockabout.
http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=5977
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog.php?type=2&title=583

I think he would. I get the impression that he wants out, yet feels that people are going to keep calling him, unless he makes himself unpalatable. I cannot judge him as a person for good or bad. I don’t know him. As a writer he has done work to rival the bard. Hell, he really is the bard of our time, comics aside, lets face it.

You might he’s really in love or lust with Alan Moore but this is the only way he can express his love for the elusive Mr. Moore. Otherwise he would post under his real name.

Considering that the next LOEG books will be published by Top Shelf and considering the rather public fall-out (yes, again) between Mr. Moore and DC and also keeping in mind that Wildstorm/DC was rather generous in letting another controversial creator-owned property go with Ennis/Robertson’s “The Boys”…

… and keeping in mind the constant delays of the book…

… would Mr. Moore try to kill his own book?! Perhaps, perhaps not. I don’t know.

But it does merit some thought… IF the poster truly comes from Wildstorm

(Hey, Rich! That WAS a fun fight, wasn’t it? Did Big Brother give you his love… or at least presents for Christmas?! I always wondered)

Actually, I think we should all post under our real names, except Heidi, who IS the BEAT (who else could that be?)… it may prevent derailing, personal and pig-headed comments, because then people know it’s a real person, yes?

What was that netiquette thingie again? Never post something that you wouldn’t tell somebody to his/her face…

So, if that presumed Wildstorm employee would kindly state his real name

EON, the owners of James Bond, may well take an interest in Black Dossier, in which they will find a familiar spy character named Jimmy - this was in a Wizard interview. However, no trademark has been breached, the character is unidentified (though again there will be familiar background details no doubt) and indeed other works have gone far further in terms of parody or recontextualisation without being sued. We are aware, DC have had a legal team go through the book. And considering Bond is in copyright in all territories, this won’t have been behind the territory restriction decision.

There’s certainly a possible lawsuit, there’s a possible lawsuit from old Mrs Miggins at no 42 who says the book smells of fish and it’s causing her grief, but it’s not guaranteed it will go anywhere.

And yes, indeed, the first books were released outside the USA, despite having HG Wells characters, and character named Bond who worked for ‘M’ without a lawsuit from anyone.

Again, Alan Moore isn’t publishing this or previous books.

It sure sounds like a repeat from a Newsarama “discussion” a year ago, especially the “I know more about copyright than you will ever learn, Nimrod” comment

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?s=f1a0eda66ee97e61dbdf3d0ad0a21e21&t=64938&pp=25

How utterly odd. Circles.

Never said I knew everything, just everything about Alan Moore

Your point is foolish- Alan is NOT parodying Wendy Darling, he is USING That character to have hard core hetero and homo sexual sex.

He is not doing a pastiche of Jeeves or James Bond he is USING THE CHARACTERS THAT ARE OWNED BY OTHERS.

As for your attempts to ban me, why would you want to deprive your readers of information? Some sort of Alan fetish?

The people called idiots were idiots.

I know the score about Alan Moore!

Are you now a censor?

Pastiche and parody have a long and valued tradition in literature. You can argue with Alan Moore’s decisions and literary merit all you want but your name calling and idiotic posturing just earned you a banning.

Marvel’s MASTER OF KUNG FU featured a supporting character who was the illegitimate son of James Bond. Like BLACK DOSSIER, it’s hinted at, not stated outright. Where was the lawsuit brought against Marvel?

And you talk as if Alan Moore has the power to force publishers, editors and producers to do his bidding. That’s just retarded.

You have no idea how the real world works.

Managing the complexities of multinational copyright is hard enough for lawyers, let alone an editor without specialized legal training. If it’s possible for a book to get to press without these issues being addressed, perhaps something more systemic needs to be re-structured besides one individual’s career. Either a procedure wasn’t followed–which in any case should have raised a red flag a lot earlier, given that the project in question was public knowledge–or it did not exist.

As far as I am aware, the Black Dossier has no more legal issues outside the USA than League 1 and League 2. Both of which were cleared and posed no problem on publication.

Naturally, LITG will be following this up next week, with new information.