>Captain Marvel pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Marvel_(Fawcett) >Marvel Comics owns the trademark for the name Captain Marvel. DC Comics owns trademarks for the names Shazam and Billy Batson. In order to use the Captain Marvel name, it can only appear in the interior of the story.
>Captain Marvel Jr. pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Marvel_Jr. >Marvel Comics owns the trademark for the name Captain Marvel. DC comics owns trademarks for the names Shazam and Billy Batson, and Captain Marvel Jr. In order to use Captain Marvel Jr.'s name. it must be used in the interior of the story, the same way DC does to avoid Marvel's trademark on the Captain Marvel name. The connection between Kid Eternity and Captain Marvel Jr. being brothers comes from DC Comics and is NOT from the golden age books since they were published by separate companies' Quality and Fawcett, respectively.
>Blue Beetle pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_Beetle_(Fox)pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_Beetle_(Charlton_I) >Like many Charlton Characters such as Tyro Team, Spookman, and Shape; Dan Garrett is in the public domain thanks to a lack of a proper copyright notice. This is because any work published without a proper copyright notice between 1923 and 1977 are in the public domain.
>THUNDER Agents pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/T.H.U.N.D.E.R._Agents Tower Comics never registered its titles with the US copyright office, nor did it include a correct copyright notice on their books.
>The Question pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Question >Like many Charlton characters the Question is in the public domain thanks to a lack of a proper copyright notice. This is because any work published without a proper copyright notice between 1923 and 1977 are in the public domain.
I know that Charlton's Yellowjacket did show up in Morrison's Multiversity (but wasn't shown to have any powers there) but when did Fox's Wonder Man show up in DC? Are they confusing the other Wonder Men with that version?
But that gives you a really limited amount to draw from.
Dr. Nemesis (Roy Thomas used him in the 90's as a hero-turned-Nazi, Matt Fraction then used the character further for X-Men): pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Dr._Nemesis
Spider Queen (also used by Roy Thomas in the 90s; character later showed up in that 1950's Avengers book that Chaykin drew) pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Spider_Queen
Probably do what you want as long as you're only using the stuff that's PD and not the still-copyrighted stuff. Some of it may be difficult because there's either a small pool of stuff to draw from and then there's also the issue with trademarks.
Gavin Gomez
You can use Question in a story but only if he wears the Charlton variation of uis outfit, is rude to his love interest, and rambles about objectivism
Jacob Hill
You can use these characters and not get sued as long as they stay different from their modern counterparts.
Asher Watson
Is Zorro on public domain?
Jose Roberts
Partially. Only "The Curse of Capistrano" (the first Zorro story) and "The Further Adventures of Zorro" are. The rest of the stories by McCulley aren't PD yet. The 1920's Mark of Zorro film is PD though.
Luis Hughes
Yeah, but can the character himself be used without having to pay some owners?
But that's as long as you stick to the pubic domain stuff. You can't really do anything that they did decades later.
James Myers
>I know that Charlton's Yellowjacket did show up in Morrison's Multiversity (but wasn't shown to have any powers there) but when did Fox's Wonder Man show up in DC? Are they confusing the other Wonder Men with that version? That's DC WonderMan. PD WonderWoman is this
Why can't DC just say fuck it and stole Cap Marvel? I don't want Shazam (Captain Marvel) and Shazam Jr (Captain Marvel Jr)
Xavier Gomez
You can get Billy Batson /ss/‘d by your donut steel OC and have the warm feeling of knowing it’s canon I guess
Austin Nguyen
That was actually pretty clever of Moore.
Jaxson Jackson
They'd rather have something they can trademark and own outright. It's like how WWE changes people's names so they can own it without sharing.
Levi Murphy
So, having a guy called Zorro, dressed as Zorro, riding a black horse called Tornado and being the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega is all good, I assume? I'm hoping I can use his famous mark as well.
