Quick question

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

In dealing with Golden Age stuff, where the stories are short and the page count is high, how many pages of a comic can we post? Let's say the story is 8 pages long, and the comic is, say, 60 or so?

Hell, or Seuss? You decide.

Comments

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

Exactly. In this case, I got some Whiz comics, and I feel like sharing some non-Captain Marvel... though there's one long Captain Marvel versus the Muslim Extremists one that I think it hilariously appropriate for today... it's surprisingly nuanced for a '40s comic, anyhow. It's long, but it's almost certainly less than a third of the book with minor snippage, but do I trim down a 60+pager to 20 pages or to 1/3rd the story? For that matter, what if I feel like sharing something from a 100 Page Comic from the 60s?

With Whiz, I'm _prrrrrreeeettty_ sure the copyright wasn't renewed, but I'm not sure.

FAWCETT

[peur_evol.insanejournal.com]

Sharing for free is OK.
From what I understand (because I looked into this, as well), DC owns the rights to Fawcett/Quality/Red circle/etc. CHARACTERS.
So you couldn't publish any SpySmasher stories and sell them.
However, DC does not own the rights to every STORY that was ever published.

Additionally, DC has blatantly raped some golden age defunct publishers; they actually DON'T own Phantom Lady (nobody does). From what I understand, they didn't purchase Hoppy The Marvel Bunny, either, 'tho they've considered him to belong to them as part of the SHAZAM! family.

Just my two cents. I'm taking it that Kamino_Neko is the one with the real booklarnin'.

Re: FAWCETT

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

Well, I've got a bit of it. The question is regards to how the rules of the journal resolve around this specific case, as well as the 100 Pager case where it is still under copyright.

Re: FAWCETT

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

I'm taking it that Kamino_Neko is the one with the real booklarnin'

I should note I'm not a copyright lawyer, or anything of the sort - due to being a lit. major in university, and wannabe writer, I've ended up needing to know something of this stuff, and have read a lot I didn't need just because it's interesting to me, but it's not my speciality.

they actually DON'T own Phantom Lady (nobody does)

And the founder of Americomics is really grumpy about how that whole thing went.

Re: FAWCETT

[his_spiffyness.insanejournal.com]

Bill Black is kinda grumpy about a lot of things from what I saw on his message board. He went as far as saying that Alan Moore never had an original idea in his life.

Re: FAWCETT

[ashtoreth.insanejournal.com]

Well, he is technically a fanficwriter.

Re: FAWCETT

[gwalla.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

That's pretty funny coming from a guy whose work is all drawn directly from public domain golden age characters, usually in mild cheesecake form.