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Post by chaykinstevens on Aug 11, 2024 9:27:01 GMT -5
Please post the cover of a comic or graphic novel published by Eclipse, with cover date one month after that of the cover in the latest post. If a comic was bi-monthly or quarterly, you can use it for any of the relevant months, but please state in your post which month it's representing. If nothing was published by Eclipse with a cover date that fits the new month, please skip ahead to the next relevant month. I'll start things off with: Sabre (Wikipedia says this was published in August 1978, so let's call the cover date October 1978)  |
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Post by tarkintino on Aug 11, 2024 10:15:57 GMT -5
Hembeck (March, 1979; from what i've found, this would be the publisher's next release). 
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 11, 2024 12:12:55 GMT -5
Night Music 1, published November 1979  |
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Post by jason on Aug 11, 2024 14:11:21 GMT -5
I wonder if that Hembeck comic got involved in any legal issues due to the fact it's all DC and Marvel characters on the cover (though it probably skirts by due to parody law).
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 11, 2024 14:50:13 GMT -5
I wonder if that Hembeck comic got involved in any legal issues due to the fact it's all DC and Marvel characters on the cover (though it probably skirts by due to parody law). Completely constitutionally protected. This wasn't the 50s, with EC getting warned off about a Batman parody. By this point, there had been Supreme Court rulings about the protection of satire (don't think we had had the Hustler ruling yet, but I am not immediately sure of the dates on that) and Mad was in full vigor. Eclipse would have welcomed a lawsuit for the publicity, no doubt. The book collects strips from Hembeck's Dateline: @!!?#, which was featured in the Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom, which later changed its name to the Comic Buyer's Guide (CBG). Those strips helped lead to his work appearing in DC Comics Daily Planet editorial page, from 1979-1983. Fantaco collected other material and there were 7, total, including a reprint of this one, with some extra pages. It took me a little while, but I was able to collect them all, when I was colelcting, in addition to the one-shots he did for Marvel. Some really funny stuff in those books. You have to remember, this is early days of the Direct Market and the bulk of comic book publishing is still geared to the newsstand. This would have been available through the smattering of comic shops that existed and mail order, not your neighborhood newsstand or local mall bookstore. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 11, 2024 14:51:40 GMT -5
ps as we might see, ahead, Eclipse also published indexes for several DC Comics series, which would also be protected as a reference work and "fair use."
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Post by foxley on Aug 12, 2024 7:39:01 GMT -5
Detectives, Inc. (May, 1980)
This seems to have been Eclipse's next publication. |
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Post by tarkintino on Aug 12, 2024 7:51:49 GMT -5
The Mike Mist Minute Mist-eries #1 (April, 1981). 
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Post by foxley on Aug 12, 2024 7:58:39 GMT -5
Eclipse, the Magazine #1 (May, 1981)  |
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Post by tonebone on Aug 12, 2024 8:01:20 GMT -5
I wonder if that Hembeck comic got involved in any legal issues due to the fact it's all DC and Marvel characters on the cover (though it probably skirts by due to parody law). Completely constitutionally protected. This wasn't the 50s, with EC getting warned off about a Batman parody. By this point, there had been Supreme Court rulings about the protection of satire (don't think we had had the Hustler ruling yet, but I am not immediately sure of the dates on that) and Mad was in full vigor. Eclipse would have welcomed a lawsuit for the publicity, no doubt. The book collects strips from Hembeck's Dateline: @!!?#, which was featured in the Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom, which later changed its name to the Comic Buyer's Guide (CBG). Those strips helped lead to his work appearing in DC Comics Daily Planet editorial page, from 1979-1983. Fantaco collected other material and there were 7, total, including a reprint of this one, with some extra pages. It took me a little while, but I was able to collect them all, when I was colelcting, in addition to the one-shots he did for Marvel. Some really funny stuff in those books. You have to remember, this is early days of the Direct Market and the bulk of comic book publishing is still geared to the newsstand. This would have been available through the smattering of comic shops that existed and mail order, not your neighborhood newsstand or local mall bookstore. It also wasn't today, where Disney and WB will cease-and-desist you for anything even remotely resembling what Hembeck got away with there. And to fight them is a losing proposition, as the "parody/satire" argument will almost certainly no longer will hold up in most courts. The courts are sympathetic towards the corporations, not the little guy. If you want to read something eye-opening, read the accounts of what happened when Kieron Dwyer did a parody tee shirt of the Starbucks logo. Starbucks obliterated him. cbldf.org/about-us/case-files/cbldf-case-files/dwyer/Hell, I did these tee shirts, and Disney cease-and-desisted me within hours.   |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2024 9:22:53 GMT -5
Eclipse Magazine #2 (July 1981) 
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Post by tarkintino on Aug 12, 2024 10:48:20 GMT -5
The Price #0 (October, 1981), 
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 12, 2024 12:39:14 GMT -5
Quick note: the Eclipse logo, first seen on Eclipse the Magazine #1 above, was designed by Tom Orzechowski.
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Post by foxley on Aug 12, 2024 16:27:57 GMT -5
Eclipse, the Magazine #3 (November, 1981)  |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Aug 12, 2024 16:33:29 GMT -5
Eclipse, the Magazine #4 (January 1982)  |
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