Marvel lost the rights to Star Wars a long time ago. Dark Horse has them now, including the right to reprint the Marvel comics, which I believe they've been reprinting in trade paperback. Dunno if Dark Horse does DVDs, though.
Star Trek DC Comics
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I got it, but I've only read one comic on it in the past 3 or 4 months.
@Steve Roby Yeah, I've been buying the Star Wars Omnibus because those original stories are near and dear to my childhood so I'll shell a little cash for them. Id like to read some of the new Dark Horse Star Wars stuff but I'd rather pay a good price and get digital copies than try to buy the original paper comics or reprints. That gets super expensive fast.
Well, it was a company called GITCorp that published the Trek comics DVD-ROM collection, and they've also published similar collections for Marvel (their Amazing Spider-Man DVD was an invaluable resource in researching my Spidey novel). And of course their Trek collection included comics from multiple different companies -- Gold Key, Marvel, Malibu, DC/Wildstorm. So it's not something that has to be done by the property owner; GITCorp presumably licenses the rights.
So a collection of Marvel's SW comics would be contingent on the DVD-ROM publisher getting a license from Lucasfilm, probably. Not sure if it'd be necessary to get permissions from Marvel & Dark Horse as well.
I still have almost the entire Marvel Star Wars run in physical form anyway. They're the only SW comics I ever collected, aside from that Dark Empire thing way back when (the first non-Marvel SW comics), which I didn't enjoy enough to keep. Overall, I kind of like Marvel's take on the SW universe better than its other interpretations, including the film canon itself.
I'm all the way (Ha!) up to issue 5 on DC Star Trek and starting to hit my stride. Just wanted to invite everyone to come leave comments, feedback, etc.
http://dctrekcomic.blogspot.com
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Trekfan69 I am now a "follower" on your blog and plan to visit frequently. Excellent reviews thus far!
I imported it from the US, with helpful advice from the regulars here.
I love it
.I also love reading the letters' pages. Trekkie complaints never change!
I have spotted some sneaky B.S. in a few letter columns. In the TNG cadet Riker flashback annual, there's a Belknap-class starship, a borrowed fandom design (as seen in several unoffical Trek tech fanzines of the 80's) as well as a FASA Federation ship design (I can't remember the classname OTOH). In a later issue or annual, someone asks where those ships came from - and the editor says that the artist made them up!
^Maybe the editor wasn't familiar enough with fan ship designs to recognize them and assumed the artist made them up. Not everybody's into technical fandom.
This is very true--just try reading old Usenet posts from the Eighties, and it'll feel like you're still on this forum.I also love reading the letters' pages. Trekkie complaints never change!
This sort of thing seemed to happen a bunch of times in that era with small stuff--artists and authors would take items and information from less official sources without acknowledgement, or accept "fanon" as truth--but I'm with Christopher in thinking that the editor probably wasn't aware of what happened.
Times haven't changed that much, though--a recent Serenity comic used a fan-rendered ship design because (reportedly) the artist thought it came from the series itself.
There was no secret that the DC Comics paid homage to numerous FASA ship designs over the years. They also used exact poses of several ST IV aliens, as drawn for the FASA "ST IV Sourcebook".
I know the Romulan Nova-class was used in The Doomsday Bug three parter (issues #34-36).
