Thread:Shadzane/@comment-6369172-20190417111838/@comment-918732-20190422064516

DC asked Comic Book Plus to remove certain issues because those issues are not in the public domain (per DC). We don't know what DC's legal argument was (because Comic Book Plus is not sharing the letter DC sent them), but apparently Comic Book Plus found the argument convincing.

If I had to guess, I would guess that DC found paperwork showing that Fawcett did renew the copyright on those particular issues. If your next question is "Why did Fawcett renew some issues and not others, seemingly at random?" I cannot answer that, but I can totally believe that it happened, because Fawcett's comics division was shut down and I can buy that renewing the copyrights was a low priority.