Arthur M. Lieberman, a key intellectual property lawyer who brought together the warring factions to unite the Robert E. Howard library of characters and thus paved the way for the Conan the Barbarian movies, has died from lung cancer at the age of 76.  More recently Lieberman, in conjunction with Gil Champion and Stan Lee helped form POW! Entertainment.

Just last week Lieberman was named along with Champion and Lee in suit arising out of a reverse merger agreement that allowed POW! to go public (see "Stan Lee Ensnared in Another Legal Dispute").