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The release of the Dynamite book coincides with another big moment for the writer

The series has previously only been available to subscribers of the Edgar Rice Burroughs newsletter.

The four-issue miniseries looks to be the team-up you never knew you needed.

A popular creative team returns for the crossover.

Today, Dynamite announced that they've acquired the rights to Will Eisner's Sheena, Queen of the Jungle and plan to team her up with her historical inspiration Tarzan for a jungle crossover that would make Phil Colins...

While the best known of Edgar Rice Burroughs' creations are now in the public domain—Tarzan and John Carter among them—not all the books in those series are out of copyright and trademarks remain. Thus...

A powerful looking Ron Ely, star of the TV's "Tarzan"(1966-1968) and "Doc Savage: Man of Bronze" (1975) spell bound his audience at WonderCon Friday, relating his fight with a wild tiger.   According to Ely,...

A powerful looking Ron Ely, star of the TV's "Tarzan"(1966-1968) and "Doc Savage: Man of Bronze" (1975) spellbound his audience at WonderCon Friday, relating his fight with a wild tiger.  According to Ely, "The...

You'll recall that a few weeks ago, the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs sued Dynamite over their ongoing lines of Tarzan and John Carter comics. Although the earliest works in each series are in the public domain, ERB, Inc. sued on the basis of trademark infringement, claiming that Dynamite's Lord of the Jungle was infringing their trademark for "TARZAN LORD OF THE JUNGLE" and so on. Well, Dynamite has responded, and it's pretty much a blanket denial, as you can see above. Dynamite's defense is pretty simple: the books are in the public domain, and ERB, Inc., doesn't have a trademark to infringe. For instance, ERB didn't file a trademark claim for Lord of the Jungle until March, 2012, although a shadowy company called ETT Corp. had filed one a few years earlier.

Wow! All hell has broken loose in comic book-land! Last week's surfeit of Aquarian-born comics creators created a busy circuit of birthday parties, and if I had a dime for every time the name "Gary Friedrich" came up, his legal fees would be paid. IP Wars are breaking out everywhere.Why here, why now? As always, follow the money. The most visible and lucrative segment of comics industry has, since the great distribution collapse of the '90s, been primarily in the IP business. Entire comics companies have sprung up just to create movie storyboards masquerading as comics. Big media corporations outfit swanky offices just for the purpose of developing existing IP. It's become a cottage industry. No wonder then, that controlling and profiting from IP has become THE major preoccupation of the comics industry from the CEO selling movies to the colorist selling prints.