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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JLowder" data-source="post: 9681488" data-attributes="member: 28003">At base, TSR/Lorraine wanted DC to publish Buck Rogers comics. DC was not interested. TSR pushed—and pushed hard—for a time, for DC to add Buck to the license, even as DC was publishing the other TSR comics. Those comics were selling really well.When it became clear DC was not going to publish Buck comics, TSR created TSR West to publish the "comic modules"—first and foremost Buck Rogers. TSR West had other things in the works (like the planned R.I.P. horror RPG) and made a lot of noise about competing in the comics space with DC, as reported in Slaying the Dragon, but the reason they were formed was Buck, to do Buck comics.Though I never saw the agreement itself, I was told by TSR middle management at one point DC had an exclusive license for TSR-related comics. DC saw the comic modules are a direct violation of the license; I was told that by someone at DC. (I was part of the TSR licensing review team for the comics, wrote some text pages and a story for the TSR Worlds annual, and was lined up to be the writer for a planned Ravenloft series from DC.) TSR tried to claim they were not comics because they also had game material in them. DC ended the relationship with TSR shortly after the launch of the comic modules, winding up the series that were ongoing and killing plans for at least three new series, including Ravenloft and Greyhawk.The Buck Rogers IP was the root cause of the break.</blockquote>

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