Starblaze Graphics

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Starblaze also published compilation reprints of the comics series Elfquest by Wendy and Richard Pini and A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran. The Pinis later sued Starblaze for continuing to publish Elfquest, and attempting to re-secure the rights to the A Distant Soil series.<ref>"NewsWatch: WaRP files $4 million lawsuit," The Comics Journal #115 (April 1987), pp. 11-12.</ref> Starblaze countersued; the dispute was settled in 1988.<ref>"Donning Sues WaRP," The Comics Journal #123 (July 1988), p. 8-9.</ref><ref>"NewsWatch: WaRP & Donning Settle," The Comics Journal #125 (October 1988), pp. 15-16.</ref> A dozen Starblaze authors also sued Donning/Starblaze after the company folded the Starblaze division in 1989 and sold contracts and rights to multiple book properties to Schiffer Publishing.<ref>Template:Cite court</ref>

Starblaze ceased operation in 1989, but the initial publications of MythAdventures novels M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action (1990) and Sweet Myth-Tery of Life (1993) carried the Starblaze imprint.

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