Thread:Kyletheobald/@comment-20551-20190505023029/@comment-3361105-20190505234307

Any licensed property, i.e. Scooby-Doo, Star Trek, or He-Man should link instead to a wiki about that franchise.

For example: - for which I created a little template to make the inter-wiki linking a little easier.

The same (ideally) applies to creator-owned books that end up outside DC, like Kurt Busiek's, or Peter David's.

When a licensed franchise crosses over with the mainstream DCU, as in, say, you smoosh the two systems together - for convenience's sake, we keep using the mainstream DCU versions of the characters, even though these books are typically not considered canon.

For Captain Marvel, DC's purchase of the Marvel family in 1991 (and earlier purchase of Charlton characters) retroactively makes most prominent Fawcett characters DC properties, and part of the DC Universe proper.

Kyle may have to correct me on this, but Peter Cannon's relationship to DC is similar, but a bit more complex. DC owned him as of the Charlton purchase in 1983. In 2003, Pete Morisi died, and DC gave the publishing rights back to his family, who then licensed the character to Dynamite. During those 20 years, though, Peter Cannon was not a licensed character. He was a DC character. So, any version we have of the character, specific to his appearances in the DCU, are - "New Earth" appearances. Whereas, we would not be covering his Dynamite Entertainment appearances.

Occasionally, (I personally wouldn't do this), someone will tag the franchise/reality as an appearance - especially in crossover books. That explains the Space Ghost tag.