Previous Post Quote: http://www.comicboards.com/app/show.php?msg=mub-2009061023305433 Homage characters I deal with in the thread above. Quote: Trying to think of Marvel's adaptation of prose, literary properties not in the public domain. Well, there was Elric of Melnibone turning up in a couple of Conan issues, with Moorcock's permission. They also adapted Theodore Sturgeon's "It" and "Killdozer." 2001 and Planet of the Apes are borderline cases, as they were primarily film adaptations but also had a literary existence. In 2001's case, the book an movie were simultaneous projects, of course. I don't actually know the PD dates for the H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs materials Marvel has adapted; was the Barsoom stuff PD in the 1970s when Marvel published a John Carter series? Quote: Doc Savage Conan/Kull/Solomon Kane, etc. Thongor Remo Williams, the Destroyer Fu Manchu Anita Blake The Stand Brak (John Jakes) Opener of the Crypt (also by Jakes) Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper few other Robert Bloch adaptations Wildcards (started in prose) by George R.R. Martin Hellraiser (began as the novella The Hellbound Heart) and other Clive Barker adaptations Logan's Run (began as a novel) Quote: Epic did quite a few adaptations of prose. Quote: Has Lovecraft's work passed into the public domain? I know of a Richard Corben series.

I have the impression that the ERB estate has kept Tarzan and John Carter out of the public domain by asserting trademark.

In 1988, they released a Shadow graphic novel, which oddly came out while DC had a Shadow regular series running the same year.

Several anthology series of the 1970's and later adapted literary works outside of the public domain. Many of these appeared as black and white oversize magazines.

Oddly, many Conan stories adapted works by Norvell W. Page and other authors besides Robert E. Howard, thought often having Conan in the stories. David LoTempio at groups.yahoo.com/group/therehcomicsgroup in the files section lists these oddities.

Marvel Super Special adapted Frank Herbert's Dune and other literary works that received film adaptations.