Jet-Ace Logan (Any old-timer Brit members here?)

[Jukka Laine of Finland]

I'd like to get all the possible information of British science fiction comics hero Jet-Ace Logan. He has become lately quite a cult hero here in Finland. And Finnish artist, Petri Hiltunen has even made his own version.

Especially I would be interested in the strips published in "Comet" and "Tiger" in the 50s and 60s. And who owns the rights now? Who wrote and drew these strips? The Finnish publisher would be eager to reprint those, but needs more information.

[roger4729]

I used to buy Tiger comic from 1959 to about 1962 because of my interest in the Jet Ace Logan comic strip. I still have many of the comics and prints of the artwork. Are you still interested in finding out about Jet Ace Logan from this period (Art by John Gillat)?
Regards Roger

[imil1]

Hi, I am intrested in Jet Ace Logan comic and Mr.Gillats art. If you have clean samples, I am intrested in buying it,
Regards,
Ivo

[T GUy]

I'd like to get all the possible information of British science fiction comics hero Jet-Ace Logan. He has become lately quite a cult hero here in Finland. And Finnish artist, Petri Hiltunen has even made his own version.

Especially I would be interested in the strips published in "Comet" and "Tiger" in the 50s and 60s. And who owns the rights now? Who wrote and drew these strips? The Finnish publisher would be eager to reprint those, but needs more information.


I believe a reprint collection came out recently in the manner of the Commando and War Picture Library compilations.

Sadly, checking this out i discovered that I was thinking of this item (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rick-Random-Detective-Adventure-Picture/dp/1853756733/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242304232&sr=1-4). Howe'er, I believe that it is the same copyright holder, so it might be a start (Rick Random and Jet Ace Logan were both IPC characters... I forget who owns them now, but do have an idea that it isn't whoever is currently doing 2000 A. D. for some reason).

[Loki]

I believe a reprint collection came out recently in the manner of the Commando and War Picture Library compilations.

Sadly, checking this out i discovered that I was thinking of this item (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rick-Random-Detective-Adventure-Picture/dp/1853756733/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242304232&sr=1-4). Howe'er, I believe that it is the same copyright holder, so it might be a start (Rick Random and Jet Ace Logan were both IPC characters... I forget who owns them now, but do have an idea that it isn't whoever is currently doing 2000 A. D. for some reason).

http://www.comicworldnews.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?column=crumpets&page=3
"thanks to the number of company buyouts of comics titles down the years in the UK, there's been plenty of debate as to which characters IPC actually own, after the company sold off its entire comics division to what's now Egmont-Fleetway in the 1980s. Now, finally, Andrew [Sumner of IPC] can settle that debate once and for all.

"This is a subject that does the rounds on fansites and message boards that I can clear up, right here, right now," he reveals. "IPC and Egmont Fleetway finally agreed respective ownership of intellectual property rights in the mid 1990's. Which is why the 2000AD one shot published in 1992, which featured some of the old IPC characters was a complete mistake. Fleetway didn't know at that time that they didn't own the rights to those characters.

"The actual ownership rights work like this; with one or two specified exceptions. IPC Media owns every IPC comic character created before 1970. Egmont-Fleetway owns every IPC character created after 1970. So, IPC owns Lion, Valiant, Pow, Tiger, and all their respective characters, while Egmont-Fleetway owns Cor!, Action, Battle and all their respective characters.

"The exceptions to this pre-1970 ownership threshold for IPC are 26 specifically-named characters that featured in Buster -- including the Leopard of Lime Street and a bunch of humour characters such as Buster himself -- which was still being actively published by Fleetway when the IPC/Fleetway agreement was made. So the creation date does not apply to these characters and they are owned by Egmont-Fleetway.

"The other small exceptions are Dan Dare and (soccer hero) Roy of the Rovers, who have both been sold off to other concerns a long time ago. "
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Fleetway in turn sold off 2000 A.D. to Rebellion Studios during the 1990s, so that's why the owners of 2000 A.D. don't own the rights to Rick Random. I'm not sure whether the rights from Starlord and Tornado, the two comics which merged into 2000 A.D., were sold to Rebellion as well - or rather, I know that they did for the properties that were still active (Strontium Dog and Ro-Busters/ABC Warriors characters), but less certain of who owns the ones that transferred but then died off (Wolfie Smith, Blackhawk, etc.), or who didn't survive the title mergers (Mind Wars for instance).