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^ But Lance Bruner is not a well-known character. He's as obscure as they get...
Is Turner Hayes supposed to be Lance Bruner? If so, why change the name? If not, then Why create a new non-Robin adopted son for Bruce?
Santa Claus is on the list because St. Nicholas was real.
Moon Knight is not a copy of Batman. If you want to see what happens when Marvel tries to copy Batman, see Nighthawk.
But it is true that, at some times, Marvel tried to put Moon Night into a Batman niche. You know, "If you like Batman, try our unpowered vigilante who mainly operates at night, Moon Night"! This is mostly a marketing thing, I don't think any of the creative teams were trying to produce a pseudo-Batman.
I'm assuming that, whenever future movies reference ''Justice League'', the references will be vague enough that they could be referring to either version...
Just pointing out that this isn't just Warner/AT&T picking on DC. Many people were fired all thruout the Warner organization yesterday. It a combination of reorganization after the merger and covid layoffs.
It's from the poster for Snyder-Con, a charity event The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
https://popculturereviews.com/2019/03/25/snyder-con-recap-a-weekend-of-directors-cuts/
I agree with you in general. I disagree with you about Quality characters, because DC did own them for several years before allowing them to fall into the public domain.
For Quality, DC bought everything (with minor exceptions listed below). At least, that's what the book The Quality Companion says. Now, there has been some discussion here that maybe we shouldn't cover the characters that DC hasn't done anything with yet (like T-Man or Gabby), because those characters essentially belong to the public domain now. I disagree -- even if they are in the public domain now, DC can still use them, and DC did own them for a while.
Exception 1: The Blackhawks: When Quality shut down in 1956, the Blackhawks had recently been in a movie serial, and Busy Arnold (the owner/publisher of Quality Comics) thought their might be more interest in the characters. So he kept them, and leased the comics rights to DC. A few years later, Arnold did sell the Blackhawks to DC.
Exception 2: Spirit Section characters (The Spirit, Lady Luck, etc.): Quality Comics did all the production work (but none of the editorial) on the Spirit newspaper inserts for Will Eisner. In return, Quality/Arnold was a co-owner of the characters (including reprint rights). However, the partnership was structured so if Busy Arnold ever stopped being a publisher, his shares reverted to Eisner. So, when Arnold shut down Quality, he lost his share of the characters, and was not able to sell that share to DC.
Exception 3: Candy: Candy first appeared in Quality Comics, but not very long afterward started a comic strip from Chicago Times Syndicate (both by Harry Sahle at first). The comic book ended in 1956 (6 months before Quality shut down), but the comic strip continued until 1970! No one knows for sure, but Quality must have sold their rights to Candy to Chicago Times Syndicate before they shut down.
OK, this should be easy:
Who is Paul Dini's self-proclaimed favorite DC character?
What made you go in that direction?
I used the Random Page feature!
Here, I'll do it again. Is it... Awkwardman?
No, he doesn't fit the latest clues. So I keep going... Is it Draaga?
Yes, you've got it! This happened in Star-Spangled Comics #3. In real life Hess didn't exactly defect (it was more complicated than that), but in the comics that's what he did.
HINT: These characters were created to be the lead feature in Star-Spangled Comics, but were overtaken by the Newsboy Legion.