Frazetta’s White Indian Collection at Vanguard and Dark Horse

July 15, 2010
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If any of you followed me on Twitter today, you would have seen that there is an issue with the forthcoming Frank Frazetta White Indian collected edition.

Back in March the Frazetta estate entered into an agreement with Vanguard Productions and even launched the Vanguard Frazetta Classics.  Two books have been announced: Vanguard Frazetta Classics Series Volume 1:  The Complete Johnny Comet, and the Vanguard Frazetta Classics Series Volume 2: The Complete White Indian Collection.

That’s all well and good but just days ago Dark Horse released their October solicitations which included thier own The Classic Comics Archives Vol 1: The White Indian.

Very odd indeed. So I wrote J. David Spurlock of Vanguard and this is what he had to say, I just got off the phone with Mike Richardson at Dark Horse. I expect that we will issue a joint press release later but basically, Vanguard will release WHITE INDIAN Vol 1: By Frazetta, and Dark Horse will do WHITE INDIAN ARCHIVES Vol 2 of all all the other White Indian material.

That must have been some phone call.

Spurlock had previously stated that, “(White Indian is) well into production now with more Vanguard volumes to come.”  So it’s no surprise that it’ll will be publishing the first book. But I wonder how this problem even came about. I know that Dark Horse does have some rights to the Frazetta estate (they will be publishing the Thun’da, King of the Congo Archives), but Image also has reprint rights. Perhaps they want a piece of the action, too?

In any event, it will be good to have this material reprinted. I’ll post more information as it comes available.

And thanks to Rich Johnston, Bleeding Cool,  for reminding me about the Frazetta v. Vangurad/Spurlock lawsuit. Very interesting.

UPDATE: David Spurlock sent me the cover art for the Vanguard collection. You can compare it to the discontinued Dark Horse book.

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