ITT: post public domain super heroes
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>Bella Wayne
yea, complete coincidence. Just a nocturnal flying animal crime fighter named B. Wayne
bump
Moon Girl really needs more love. How do we reinvent her?
Fetish porn.
I've got a plan.
How do you guys feel about suspenders and puffy pom-pom pigtails?
>How do you guys feel about suspenders and puffy pom-pom pigtails?
It could work
Sauce please.
[BoBoBo] Don't Stop, Adachi-sensei
No. Not again.
Never again.
YOU ARE NOW IN THE POWER OF STARDUST.
...
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Now joins the DC or Marvel universe. How do they far?
A while back an user on the rpg maker thread on /vg/ was making a game about Atoma.
Haven't been there in a while so idk what happened to it.
>Accidentally post the wrong pic
Well that's emarrasing
Black Cat and her sidekick Black Kitten.
There is not a single public domain superhero that is worth using.
I'm not being a shithead, I'm simply stating the facts. They're public domain because no one cared enough to renew the rights.
The closest there is to a public domain superhero worth caring about is Zorro and trademark trolls will fight you over it so it's not 'really' public domain because you've got to fight a lengthy court battle any time you want to use him.
I am disgusted yet aroused.
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user storytimed an issue of his -- one of eight, unfortunately -- and he seems cash.
Blue Beetle, Phantom Lady, Americommando and Petter Cannon are public domain, or at least semi.
Captain Marvel, the Spirit, Plastic Man, etc.
Fucking kill yourself.
I'm getting vague wisps of the Gay off of this image.
Also
>Jack.
as he said, no one worth using
Holy shit V-man
bump
>Talking shit about based Phantom Lady and Plastic Man
>V-man an the V-boys
Hey it's everyone's 3rd favorite Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett.
>vague wisps of the Gay
Yeah this is gay af
Why were old-school comics so homoerotic?
Phantom Lady has potential in the right hands
What's this?
Samson and David are good friends
Some Phantom Lady webcomic or something
Will she, and the rest of the Freedom Fighters, ever come back?
I mean, her whole backstory is a mess and starting from zero as a new character is no a good idea.
m-more?
Why does this feel like Sailor Moon's DC counterpart?
>V-Man & the V-Boys
>Talking shit about the Marvel Family
Nigga I will cut you.
Not in Trump's Republic of Trumpistan
How do you fix her convoluted backstory?
No she doesn't.
You're just thinking with your penis.
>I'm not being a shithead, I'm simply stating the facts.
That is the battle cry of a shithead.
Jack was originally The Yellowjacket, but he can't be called that anymore because it was trademarked or copyrighted or whatever by another superhero.
She doesn't have a convulted history. She has a convulted publication history but Phantom Lady is just a senator's daughter with a neat gadget she uses to fight crime. Easy.
>Moon Girl
>Costume barely exposes her ass at all
You had one job.
Holy shit this is ridiculous.
What the fuck is this
I maintain that Fantomah is a fucking rad superheroine.
She's basically a combination of Captain Planet and Ghost Rider, which is awesome.
Heck, considering her background (comes from the African jungle) I wouldn't even mind if she was a different race.
>V-man and the V-boys
I bet V-man didn't last one day before taking their V-cards.
That's actually the source of his powers. The more boys V-cards he takes, the more powerful he gets.
This shit is gay and retarded
No but seriously, she has potential.
Since when were Blue Beetle, Phantom Lady, Captain Marvel, the Spirit, and Plastic Man all public domain?
With Blue Beetle, are we talking about Dan Garrett?
Holy shit, I feel like I should really read this.
Make her a heroin addicted jazz critic who's not radioactive.
Also where the fuck can I find that Phantom Lady comic? I literally did a reverse image search and couldn't find shit.
All the Fawcett and Quality (and even some Charleton) characters are public domain even though DC tried to gather them up to prevent such a thing from happening.
Look at the public domain superheros wiki.
However, a major caveat is that DC owns the trademark of everyone except Captain Marvel.
>However, a major caveat is that DC owns the trademark of everyone except Captain Marvel.
So why doesn't anyone just publish Captain Marvel comics? Or at least 'Shazam' comics? They own the 'Shazam' name, don't they?
Yes. They own the trademark to the Shazam name.
So you can use the Marvel family in stories, but if you try to sell anything with the Marvel or Shazam name lawyers will mug you.
Copyright law is retarded like that.
So like
If you were developing comic book characters for the modern era, what would you develop, how, and why?
I feel as if comic characters should 1. Call to myths, as they are a a modern form of mythology, and 2. somehow represent the cultural zeitgeist of the era.
>Modernity
>Globalism
>the beginnings of Trans Humanism
>Evironmentalism
>Religious Fundamentalism
>Terrorism
>Corporatism
Fb.cum/ourladyoftheshadows
There isn't much but it looks like they're just starting out? There's a patreon for it but... Not very active. Worth a follow at least. That page has an archive with every Phantom Lady story on there, too.
>So you can use the Marvel family in stories, but if you try to sell anything with the Marvel or Shazam name lawyers will mug you.
>Copyright law is retarded like that.
That is so confusing.
I learned something today though, I guess.
Thanks, user!
Really like this guy's art too.
Stardust would make a fantastic Villain. He's got Thanos/Darkseid level aptitude for evil and he's powerful enough that a whole superteam would have to fight him.
>FEEL THE POWER OF ONE THOUSAND VIRGINITIES
>aw it smells like squid
fug, meant for
How do public domain work? Can they not be copyrighted again.
I'd say that he should be more on the level of Galactus or something. His sense of morality doesn't jive with that of others', but it can be appealed to. I would treat him more as a force of nature than anything else.
Nope. They're fair use.
A lot of his punishment are stupendously cruel for him being just a force of nature. Galactus isn't really cruel, per say. He's just doing his thing; Galactis Is. Stardust is a sadist.
>cruel force of nature
So he's basically The Specter?
In fact, thats what he could be, a former Specter who went off the end
Cheers m8
Looking at the Our Lady of the Shadows webcomic admins profile apparently it leads to Phantom Lady vs. Fantomah...
I think Alan Moore did a short story about him, and took the opportunity to shit on the original creator, a drunken shithead who stole from his own child and eventually died of exposure in Central Park.
Her suit looks exactly like a cross between a batgirl costume and catwoman's modern suit.
>V-Man and the wonderboys
The best one
>Jack
lmao
I've considered working up a stardust prequel, where he's basically the ONLY person capable of saving the world on his earth, but still has no powers. So he'd have a smaller version of the red and yellow belt, and a blue beetle looking version of his costume. As his enemies get bolder and bolder, he becomes more jaded and starts augmenting his body to the point where be becomes a deformed super-god.
The first time he really 'changes' would be fantastic, since prior to this he would have been just a campy golden age hero
>some criminal syndicate sees him as a pushover and is in the middle of a bank robbery, not at all worried about whether they can take him down
>suddenly there's a star-shaped flash of light
>thugs are all subdued
>the police hear the commotion and bust in
>they're completely taken aback and a few of them vomit when they see the fate worse than death he's inflicted on the robbers
Wait, so The Weeper from that Batman Brave and the Bold episode wasn't made in the show?
...
Hello daddy
>Big Blue & Sparky
>Samson & David
>V-Man & The V-Boys
YOU.
JUST.
KNOW.
Sound fun, if you finish it, post your link
If she was black, it'd make the transformation more diametric, going from dark to pale.
Well when I say "considered working up" I mean it's more of a rough concept than anything. I'll actually get somebody to illustrate and then try to get it published if I end up making it, so I'm sure people will hear about it.
Is there a publisher who would run a public domain character? Good luck to you, that story sounds peachy keen!
wait, is Fantômas a public domain
Holy shit, i fucking love that guy
the hood public domain?he got a cool concept for what i remember
Dynamite does.
I mean realistically, most do, anyone who uses Franknestein or Asgardians or Olympians or Christian themes does.
So ... the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen it is, then?
I think you should change to Stardust come from cartoon-like world where there are no consequence to come to the real world to spread justice
You have to remember that these comics were being written for ten year olds rather than adults. We're approaching it from the perspective of the adult character being the POV, and wondering about what sort of wish fulfillment is involved with a grown man hanging around with a bunch of nubile young boys. There was a different fantasy being sold to the target audience, here, though: Of these kids getting to hang around with an exciting and virtuous do-gooding mentor who lets them tag along on wild adventures, facilitating the types of battles and crime-fighting that kids wouldn't get to take part in otherwise.
And all the homeosex buttsex any preteen kid could only dream of!
Never realized that, that could look really cool if done right
would you still make her hair blonde or a different color after the transformation?
Sir, you have a dirty mind.
I think I'd have to stay as true to the original as possible, and I believe Stardust was a scientist or something initially.
Also learn to english
He was basically Green Lantern if was a massive troll who enjoyed getting in fights
Keep that shit blonde.
That’s why you just call a series Legends Of Big Red or something stupid.
He was made by a drunk who would beat his wife and kids
What'd you expect?
Fantomah and Stardust are the Batman and Spider-Man of the public domain set. They even have action figures now.
I write for a superhero webcomic/webnovel called Capeworld at capeworldcomics.com
Naturally I'm going to have to do something with Stardust.
I don't want to just make him a sci fi flavored Spectre though. That doesn't really have much appeal beyond a single story. I think I'll have him more like Vartox from Bronze Age Superman. He's an alien with incredible power, but his alien morality puts him at odds with Earth's heroes. He believes that every action deserves a fitting consequence because that's how it works where he's from. Every good deed must be rewarded and every bad deed must be punished.
So not only will Stardust suddenly show up to inflict horribly elaborate and imaginative punishments on muggers but if you throw a beggar a coin he'll show up and give you a stack of gold bars...while completely ignoring the beggar.
Stardust is just like that.
And on his crazy world with his own crazy race his actions make sense. But unfortunately he's on Earth, and justice for Earthlings is voluntary rather than compulsive.
You could do that, but good luck selling a book called "Legends of Big Red".
That's where they get you with the trademark. If they can't own the characters they'll make it as hard as possible to make money off them.
>holy tl;dr, batman!
No one fucking cares.
I thought it was a nice take on Stardust. It's certainly the most creative take in this thread.