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Slave Labor Launches Legal Defense Fund Over Winchester #1

Published Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:26:36 -0500

Last updated Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:10:02 -0500

Though they don't name the book, Dan Vado's description of a legal tussle over a trademark issue regarding their publication of a comic about a "gun heiress" would tend to point towards Winchester #1, set in and around the Winchester Mystery House, a building which was kept in a continual state of rennovation and extension twenty-four hours a day for thirty two years by one Sarah Winchester to silence the ghosts of those killed by Winchester rifles. Apparently.

The comic was written by SLG publisher Dan Vado, who lives near the house in question and drawn by Drew Rausch. Dan Vado writes;

So far just responding to the letters we have gotten has cost us well into five figures, more than we could possibly ever hope to recover publishing comics for the next two years. We have tried raising money by having sales, doing clearances and the like but given the times we live in and perhaps the lack of urgency about them, those things have not really done much to help us out.

So, as much as it kills me to resort to this, I am asking all of our loyal fans to help us out by donating whatever they feel comfortable sending. Just so we are being clear, SLG is not raising money to fight some long, drawn-out court case, there isn't enough money in all of comics for that kind of fight, we are asking for money to pay for the costs of responding to the letters and harassment from the baseless claims thrown at us. This is money we have already spent, a lot of it borrowed, for which there will be no return and is now affecting our ability to operate.

Who the legal tussle is with, is not revealed. Sarah Winchester? The owners of the Winchester gun brand? The Winchester Mystery House? Winchester Cheese Manufacturers?

Either way, donations can be made here…

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