Board Thread:Policies/@comment-246292-20140127154120/@comment-918732-20140317131340

I'm pretty sure that, in 1956, DC bought ALL of Quality comics. Even if DC never used the characters/reprinted the stories and later let the characters and stories fall into the public domain by not renewing the copyrights, in the late 50s DC owned them all.

I am much less sure about what DC bought from Fawcett in 1991. Even if we assume DC bought everything Fawcett had to sell, much of it had already fallen in the public domain by then (and Fawcett had sold some to Charlton in the 1950s too).