Rebellion acquire Egmont's archive of strips and characters

[Lew Stringer]

Relaunching Big Comic Fortnightly or the BVC or something similar along those lines would be a wonderful thing.

I think a partwork is more likely, due to the problems of launching traditional comics these days. Retailers are more likely to be happy to stock a £8 partwork than a cheap format comic, but I could be wrong. I think in any format the humour material will be a hard sell to a large enough audience to sustain it. So far, Rebellion have only referred to the adventure material.

Whatever happens, it'll be interesting to see developments.

[big bad bri]

Was any 80s eagle in sale to rebellion because ideally id love to see Doomlord again ,in full reprint volumes and new adventures.I know another company own dan dare etc but hopefully that's the 50s incarnation of Eagle
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[starscape]

Nah,80s Eagle is owned by the Dan Dare Corp. Hibernia Books produced a collected Doomlord though, as well as other collections, such as the Tower King http://hiberniabook.blogspot.co.uk/

[geoff42]

As regards Rebellion's acquisitions, reprints will no doubt flood the market which is great news for us who never saw the originals. As for original material, forget it - it won't happen... too much expense not to consider for Rebellion. There are only two weekly publications that give us original material - Beano and 2000 ad; these titles have a hardcore readership that allows them such luxury - no other title could do this on a weekly basis. Commando can with four titles on a monthly basis, although about 50% are reprints. This is our lot.. sadly.

[Lew Stringer]

As regards Rebellion's acquisitions, reprints will no doubt flood the market which is great news for us who never saw the originals. As for original material, forget it - it won't happen... too much expense not to consider for Rebellion. There are only two weekly publications that give us original material - Beano and 2000 ad; these titles have a hardcore readership that allows them such luxury - no other title could do this on a weekly basis. Commando can with four titles on a monthly basis, although about 50% are reprints. This is our lot.. sadly.

You're forgetting The Phoenix, which has been published every week for the last 4 years. There's also Aces Weekly, the digital comic, every Monday night.

Commando publish 8 issues a month, not 4.

There are also various monthly comics with new material; Judge Dredd Megazine, Doctor Who Adventures, Viz, all of Titan's expanding line of comics. I'm sure we've been through all this before.

That said, I agree it's unlikely we'll see the old weekly comics revived but I think it's highly possible some old adventure characters will be revived and updated in new stories at some point. Either in 2000AD or something new, perhaps for the direct market.

[wilsia]

Lew - When you say the direct market would that be what Phoenix comic originally done i.e a comic with a dedicated print run for subscribers only? (excuse my ignorance)If so I could see that working and then of course in the case of Phoenix they have branched out into other selected shops, which is great news

Personally I would love to see some sort of Best of monthly being available

[philcom55]

I hadn't thought about old characters being revived in the pages of 2000AD. For instance it'd be interesting to see Adam Eterno materialize in Judge Dredd's time!

[big bad bri]

i see the monster book is published by rebellion so they do have some eagle characters then.my head hurts

[Louis Crandell]

i see the monster book is published by rebellion so they do have some eagle characters then.my head hurts

As I just said in the Monster book thread "Rebellion will presumably know the specifics, and it is possible they licensed the rights off the Dan Dare Corporation (we know they've been talking, given the recent reprint of the 2000AD Dan Dare series), but I believe / suspect it is the case that series that originated outside of the Eagle and only became part of that title due to mergers are not owned by DDC, while ones that started in Eagle (Dan Dare, Computer Warrior, Doomlord) are DDC-owned."

[Adam Eterno]

I hadn't thought about old characters being revived in the pages of 2000AD. For instance it'd be interesting to see Adam Eterno materialize in Judge Dredd's time!

Now that I'd love!

[Digifiend]

Lew - When you say the direct market would that be what Phoenix comic originally done i.e a comic with a dedicated print run for subscribers only? (excuse my ignorance)If so I could see that working and then of course in the case of Phoenix they have branched out into other selected shops, which is great news

Personally I would love to see some sort of Best of monthly being available

Direct market means sold in comic book shops - like the American comics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_market

[starscape]

Tim "Kelly's Eye" has of course appeared in 2000AD as the Universal Soldier. That, as with the 2000AD Action Special (which featured grim'n'gritty versions of the Steel Claw, Sid's Snake etc. - many hated it, I loved it), was published without consent from the copyright holders (IPC) as Egmont were unaware they didn't already own the characters!

[wilsia]

Thanks very much Digifriend. What a great informative read. Much appreciated.

[big bad bri]

Tim "Kelly's Eye" has of course appeared in 2000AD as the Universal Soldier. That, as with the 2000AD Action Special (which featured grim'n'gritty versions of the Steel Claw, Sid's Snake etc. - many hated it, I loved it), was published without consent from the copyright holders (IPC) as Egmont were unaware they didn't already own the characters!

can someone put up the Sid's snake page i would love to see that.

[tony ingram]

Lew - When you say the direct market would that be what Phoenix comic originally done i.e a comic with a dedicated print run for subscribers only? (excuse my ignorance)If so I could see that working and then of course in the case of Phoenix they have branched out into other selected shops, which is great news

Personally I would love to see some sort of Best of monthly being available

Direct market means sold in comic book shops - like the American comics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_market

And much of Titan's output.