Anything interesting that has no copyright protection?
Public Domain Superheroes
Jackson Baker
Thomas Young
How does it fill that with the original laws of copyright all DC heroes would be public?
Landon Smith
the heroes of Centaur Comics are public domain. off the top of my head this includes
>The Arrow (not to be confused with The Green Arrow
the first superhero to have a bow and arrow gimmick.
>The Eye
giant eyeball ring thing that glows and really likes distributing justice
>Amazing-Man
who fun fact was co-created by Bill Everett, best known as the creator of Namor, the Sub-Mariner. and co creator of Daredevil and The Zombie.
Noah Butler
I still say Boy King has potential with some rework and less WW2 propaganda.
Joshua Allen
Not sure if much of current history would repeat i.e. Batman the animated series, teen titans, in which case there's at least a small chance I would've never gotten into any version until much later. I went from animation/live action to comics and go back and forth between them.
Luis Ward
anyways, i'm making a superhero universe based on public domain superheroes and other fiction.
anyone have any suggestions for sources to draw from?
so far i'm using
>the works of Fletcher Hanks
>Nedor Comics' heroes
>Lev Gleason Publications' heroes
>Centaur Comics' heroes
>the Lovecraft Mythos (even have an older version of Herbert West on the team i'm using
>stand ins for technically-public-domain-but-still-trademarked characters. like Capt. Marvel, Plastic Man, Peacemaker, and the Blue Beetle.
>heroes from Yea Forums's creation thread
>the horror staples, Frankenstein and Dracula.
Brandon Nelson
Ok, whats the difference between trademark and copyright, for what the little I know copyright just means you can reprint comics but trademark keeps you from making your own Superman stories.
Nathaniel Phillips
Trademark protects things like the likeness of a character, their name. elements of their mythos. any iconic logos. what have you.
Copyright protects the work themselves,
i am an actual retard, but this is what i have gleamed. don't take my advice, i'm not a lawyer nor do i play one on tv
Angel Powell
The guys from that one comics with public domain characters like the Green Lama, Boy King, the Super American etc would probably be a decent source or at least public domain characters to use.
Isaac Russell
In short? Just legal babble nonsense so when one expire or doesn't apply, big corporations can still hit you with the other.
Thomas Brown
Power of Stardust? Yeah that one is pretty good.
Carter Hughes
Nah, I mean the one that was good until the one where they fight an alien called 'Pandora', which was garbage.
With the American Spirit and all. I forgot the name.
Matthew Hill
Who published it?
Oliver Flores
I looked it up and the comic is called 'Project Superpowers'.
Jaxon Murphy
I'd take the Masks and put them all on a single tokusatsu style team.
>Red Mask
>Green Mask
>White Mask
>Grey Mask
>Miss Masque
Christian Taylor
Sky Man, Boy King, Miss Masque and Mr. Face are my favorites.
Colton Thomas
What would their team name be?
Don't say Maskman because that's taken
Robert Lee
Maskmen.
Adam Watson
Basically yeah. Action Comics #1 can go into the public domain, but as long as DC is still actively producing Superman content, they control the character trademark and everything associated with him.
Evan Flores
Malibu, Dynamite, and Marvel did use Amazing-Man (Malibu had him on the Protectors, Dynamite had him in a crowd shot in Project Superpowers, and Marvel has Prince of Orphans which is basically Amazing-Man with a different superhero name and look)
James Harris
The law is highly subjective but basically copyright means you can't use the character at all and trademark means you can't use their name, logo, likeness etc. to advertise or sell anything. So for example, you could use Blue Beetle as a character in the interior pages of a comic because the copyright has expired, but because DC owns the trademark you can't call your book Blue Beetle or use the name or likeness on the cover, in promo material, or in any way that may be confused with DC's Blue Beetle.
Joshua Young
That thread where anons talked about him making a shota team with Wonder Woman's son and another character I don't remember was pretty fun.
Austin Roberts
Or the way companies can protect their product brand and stay in business. If you let a dozen companies sell cheap cookies and still call them Oreos for example, you're going to be shutting down and firing everybody pretty soon.
William Bennett
Have you read some of the original Golden Age stories of the Face? Pretty good. The series goes through a phase where different people get ahold of the mask and the hero tries to counter them and regain it,.
Ayden Walker
I have some images of old public domain heroes. Pretty sure I got them from here years and years ago.
Michael Mitchell
Very clearly stated. As I understand it, the crucial factor in trademark is whether sales could be hurt by confusion. If you make, say, as vacuum cleaner called the Wolverine, that would be okay. But trying to publish a fictional character of that name with even the vaguest resemblance to Marvel's character would mean the lawyers would come visit you.
Camden Morales
Landon Mitchell
Alexander Lee
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Big Blue is of course the original Blue Beetle from Victor Fox.
Oliver Howard
Julian Barnes
That head fin was pretty popular back in the day right?
Jaxon Hernandez
Does this mean you can use the name and change the origin/powers how ever you see fit?
Elijah Ross
Angel Baker
This guy would seriously be great if his name weren't fucking Daredevil
By FAR one of the best Golden Age costumes ever made
Sebastian Martin
Hydro was Hydro-Man, a Bill Everett character I think/
John Bennett
Major Victory seems to be disgusted by Dynamic man's fashion choices.
Brayden Powell
Josiah Rivera
Senator Armstrong?
Andrew Scott
Cat was Catman. The Owl was the Black Owl, whose costume for some reason had no black in it.
Nolan Collins
Bentley Cook
No,wait. I see the Black Owl in a following illustration. Not sure now who this guy is,
Blake Clark
Yeah a lot of these seem to be a slight shift from their original names.
Charles James
Man O Metal is fucking great
Robert Nguyen
Justin Garcia
I have the feeling V-Man is fucking the V-boys...
Nolan Phillips
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All the gigantic characters. Jack Cole's Claw remains genuinely gruesome, crushing people in his hands and cackling insanely as they pop.
Gavin Hernandez
Christopher Miller
Dominic Turner
Well, this is Yea Forums. Everything is about men sodomizing each other or about underage anime girls who are cute. CUTE! This board is never going to move on past that.
Ryan Campbell
Aaaand last one from me.
Anthony Anderson
I'm guessing it's because the original names are being used by DC or Marvel for new characters?
Oliver Scott
oh shit! its Tim!
Thomas Lee
Yes.
Jaxson Taylor
These look pretty accurate to the originals, except the Liberator had bare legs,.
The Arrow seems to have been based on the serial THE GREEN ARCHER, as was Mort Weisinger's Green Arrow.
Jeremiah Perez
It's my headcanon that Tim grew up to become an infamous space pirate.
Lincoln Wright
Doesnt he have a giant
Colton Roberts
But at that point why not use an existing character?
Dominic Gomez
Bucky I can handle, Dusty or Sandy aren't too bad, But Tim!? I'm outta here!
Austin James
Run away!
Jacob Sanders
>Phantasmo
What if Gilderoy Lockhart was buffed and a giant
Aiden Powell
Based
You make a good point I was just curious
Logan Phillips
Not if your version is the best, retarded shill. Books existed before copyright laws and their author still became rich off of them.
James Gutierrez
Keyword: Companies and companies can get fucked.
Luke Carter
Yes, he's basically a very good fighter with a magical sword / dagger and a giant that he awakened to defend his country from the nazis (but then moved everyone to the USA become WW2 propaganda).
Liam Phillips
A few of these guys showed up in Masks a few years back
Logan Phillips
Their attempt to make Black Terror into a mix of Superman and the Punisher was pretty weird.
Benjamin Peterson
I remember thinking that too at the time, the writer really couldn't find a place for him, tried his best I guess
Evan Jenkins
I remember they tried to revive them in something called Project Superpowers in...mid 00's?