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Jade-Greene
09-24-2005, 04:26 AM
I know this is a odd question. But I was wondering if Marvel bought the rights to Kabuki when they started publishing it? I know they are known as a "Stock" publisher who only publishes using characters that were developed inhouse and they have a universe of 4,700 characters, to draw on, I wonder if Kabuki was added to that universe or if you she is still all yours. I didn't think Marvel was publishing any Creator owned material since the Epic line was canceled.

Didn't know if Kabuki would be like Captain America and get put on hold when the popularity dies and then resurface some years later with a new look. My dad was telling me how so many of the comics seem to go in cycles. He read Dare Devil bac in the 60's and 70's, the character looked a bit different then. Seems that very few titles go more than 20 yrs of continuous issues before taking a break then re-emerging 10, 20,30 years later when there is an appropriate moment in time for them. I just knew that when 9-11 happened that Captain America would come back, since he is a war driven character that came out originally for WW2 to raise patriotic spirit.

MACK!
09-24-2005, 03:57 PM
HI Jade,

I own Kabuki entirely.
Marvel publishes Kabuki and Powers under our Icon imprint. Under that Imprint, Bendis, Oeming, and I publish our books and own them and have 100% creative authorship.
And Marvel distributes them and has been great to work with.
So it is working out nicely for everyone.

GelfXIII
09-24-2005, 04:02 PM
Interesting topic.
What about film rights, merchandizing etc? Could you independently take Kabuki to, say, United Artist (if they were still around) and pitch a deal, or are you obligated to work through Marvel's inhouse film production dept.?

MACK!
09-24-2005, 10:12 PM
Interesting topic.
What about film rights, merchandizing etc? Could you independently take Kabuki to, say, United Artist (if they were still around) and pitch a deal, or are you obligated to work through Marvel's inhouse film production dept.?

If you want to license any kind of rights from Kabuki, you have to deal with me.
:)

As far as I know, Powers and Kabuki are the only Marvel comics, that can aquire licenses to without going through Marvel.

Brandon191
09-24-2005, 10:22 PM
JMS did a one-shot called Dream Police through Icon. I'm guessing he owns the licenses on that book also.

Thomas Mauer
09-25-2005, 01:11 AM
JMS and Colleen Doran have The Book of Lost Souls ongoing series coming out through ICON soon, too. :boogie: