It seems lately like it's impossible to go more than a few days without hearing about an individual or company, suing a comic company or film studio over character rights. Today you can add one more to that ever expanding list. According to The Wall Street Journal, ERB Inc. has filed suit against comic-book distributor Dynamic Forces and publisher Dynamite Entertainment.
Tarzan and John Carter creator and author Edgar Rice Burroughs also created ERB Inc.(which is now owned by his his grandchildren and great-grandchildren) in 1923. The suit claims Dynamite's Lord of the Jungle and Warlord of Mars series infringed on copyrights owned by ERB Inc.
From The Wall Street Journal...
The lawsuit claims the defendants pushed ERB Inc. to allow them to publish comic series based on Tarzan and John Carter characters, but ERB Inc. never agreed to do so.