EXCITING news indeed!!!!

http://culttvman.com/main/frazettas-death-dealer-coming-from-moebius/

This is a COMPLETE--and certainly unexpected--surprise!!! I just hope it is produced in styrene and not resin. I will be updating with details as they become available. . .

FOLLOW-UP 26.07.2014 - Straight from Comic-Con: 

http://ink361.com/app/photo/ig-772832756904272802_417401063

First things first: apparently the first of a series. And they will be model kits, not pre-paints! Over- all, DD looks good--though I am a bit concerned over the apparent omission of the mail hauberk: granted this may still be a w-i-p. If not, not likely to be a deal-breaker. The particulars have been blocked out of the shot, so the medium, scale, etc. remain unknown. Re: scale, if I had to guess, I would say 1/12th or thereabouts. Finally, the general consensus as of this writing is that they will be in styrene.

UPDATE 28.07.2014 - As of this writing, this will be a styrene kit!

UPDATE 01.08.2014 - With SDCC '14 the better part of a week behind us, a bit more "news" has begun to make its way onto the WWW. . . In no particular order: the info tag didn't reveal much other than it was to be a 2015 release. The hauberk is indeed present, with finely engraved "ring mail". HOWEVER. . . given that the display model apparently was neither the master nor a proto- type, one has to wonder how much of the manifest detail on the display model will be carried-over to the production kit?! 

Allow me to elaborate. . . scrounging through the Web, I found 2 better pictures on a FB page: one revealed the mail hauberk; the other revealed that this was a finished(!!!) kit. . . AND the com- ments revealed that this apparently was a 1/12th scale (another site cited 1/16th) resin kit sculpt- ed by Joachim Lindman for Swede Creations/Pagan Art (cf. here). I remember seeing this kit back in the late 90s--1997, if memory serves--and IIRC, it was marketed as "Dark Rider".

So at least I got the scale right! Now, the question is: will Moebius stick to this scale?  And, is the SC/Pagan Art kit going to be the basis of the new one? Or, was it simply used as an expe- dient "kagemusha"?  Stay tuned. . . 

UPDATE 09.08.2014 - Straight from Moebius' FB page. . . 

Even though most of you have seen elsewhere what we announced in San Diego, the short list for 2015 is a Fantastic Voyage Proteus, and the first in the Frank Frazetta line, the Death Dealer. Both plastic kits, both at least a year out with no scale or pricing to be announced until early 2015. . . 

UPDATE 30.12.2014 - This will explain the matter of the SC/Pagan Art kit. . . There will hopefully be more news in the New Year. . . 

UPDATE 27.02.2015 - The latest projected release "date" is Q3-2015. . . Great way to herald-in the Fall--and a very nice nod to the advent of Samhain. Also, Jeff Yagher is supposedly sculpting the master. . .