Thread:Shadzane/@comment-246292-20160523192222/@comment-918732-20160523203247

Kyletheobald wrote: Hey I'm a little concerned about your note on the Fawcett villains pages. First, I'm not even sure DC owns all those characters. The only thing I've ever seen says that DC bought the Marvel Family and related characters, not the full line and roster.

As Byfield pointed out, DC certainly bought more than the Marvel characters in 1991, because they have used more that that. Bulletman & Bulletgirl, Ibis, Spy Smasher and even Mister Scarlet and Pinky all showed up after 1991. Everything I heard is that they bought all of Fawcett's 1940-1953 comics characters -- with the important caveat that some (most?) of the lesser-known characters may have actually fallen into the public domain by then, so DC couldn't buy them. But they certainly bought everything that could be sold.

As for the licensing years of 1972-1991, from what I understand is that sometimes DC only had the license to the Marvel Family characters, and sometimes they has the license to all the Fawcett characters, and sometimes they didn't have any license, because the previous license had ran out and negotiations with Fawcett for the renewal were going long.

Kyletheobald wrote: Second, this is a similar note to adapted characters, which I'm not sure is even necessary here. Also, for most of the characters so far, it's the only piece of text on their entire page. I'm curious what others think but I'd hold off on them for now.

Here's what Ive been doing the last few days, so you know:

1. I am going thru the characters in the Fawcett Publications Characters category.

2. If a character is a real person, a mythological/legendary character or a public domain literary character, I am skipping them.

3. I look at the character's appearance list

4. If the appearance list is empty (like Ace of Blades (Earth-S)), I skip them.

5. If the appearance list has both Fawcett and DC books listed, I add this note (which I did NOT originally write. I found it on the Ibis page (or maybe it was Bulletman) and liked it, so I've been using it):


 * CHARACTER was created by CREATORS for Fawcett Publications. In 1953, National Periodical Publications (aka DC Comics) settled a long-running lawsuit against Fawcett citing that the character of Captain Marvel bore too much of a resemblance to their own character, Superman. After settling the case (by agreeing to no longer publish Captain Marvel), Fawcett discontinued publication of their entire comic book line and CHARACTER lapsed into obscurity. In 1972, DC Comics licensed many of the Fawcett characters, including CHARACTER, and established that they existed on the fictional parallel world known as Earth-S. The Fawcett characters made several appearances throughout various Silver Age DC titles including Shazam, World's Finest Comics and Justice League of America. In 1991, DC bought the Fawcett characters (including CHARACTER) outright.

6. If the appearance list has only Fawcett books listed, I add this note:


 * CHARACTER was created by CREATORS for Fawcett Publications. In 1991, DC bought the Fawcett comics characters (including CHARACTER) from Fawcett. DC has not yet used CHARACTER in any new stories.