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Needs more research. Dr. Frost and Sub-Zero pre-date Timely's Jack Frost, both debuted in 1940. Centaur had a minor villain called Frost who also debuted in 1940.

Some of that information in that page is a little out of date as my understanding has been furthered along. Motion Picture Funnies may or may not fall under the "unpublished" loophole depending on...

Technically, she and the other characters of "The Spirit" section should be public domain. While Eisner supposedly had a deal with Busy Arnold in that he retained the rights to the characters, he was...

Yeah, there was one discussion between Nellie and Smitty that seemed as if the word balloons were out of order only I couldn't come up with an order that made much sense. It almost seemed as if there...

One of the neat things way back when, Marvel & DC had no problems mixing licensed characters with those of their established U. such as the Shadow meeting with Batman (and the first in-story...

Wonder what rights there were to be acquired. I think the only stuff that was renewed was the 1950s tv show and up. Last I looked Fiction House didn't renew any of their comics or pulps, so all of...

Always figured Harley Quinn's inspiration was "Prank" from the John Wesley Shipp Flash tv show. Prank was the Trickster's sidekick/girlfriend from the episode "Trial of the Trickster". Trickster of...

Seems the complete antithesis of everything that was good about what they had managed to do with the nu52 relaunch of the characters. Maybe I'll replace it with Dr. Fate. So far it's the only sneak...

Context is key. There is nothing weird about the original Doom Patrol when compared to other DC comics at the time. The weirdest thing about it was the style, with focus on characterization, real &...

And, this did get addressed in the original run. In one issue it is revealed there is another reason why Rita and Larry are part of the DP. The Chief is working on a cure for Rita and Larry and of...

That's a bit of revisionist history right there. Bucky was NOT a tommy-gun toting teen-ager. The covers are not strictly continuity (otherwise, there are a lot of heroes who could grow to giant...

yeah, the actual retcon would be that Bucky was an of-age soldier trained to be an assassin and foisted on Captain America as a sidekick by the US Government in order to do the nasty things that...

I guess the general public is getting dumber then. As a kid, I was exposed to a live action tv show, cartoons, and toys and comics with the character under the name Shazam, and I was never confused...

Seeing as how the Black Panther is NOT an African-American, he's a monarch of Africa and of a nation that's pretty much a fantasy nation, it's like saying you cannot write Doctor Doom unless you're...

I liked the story alright, but it doesn't tell us about the other JSAers. Are we to assume they died of the rapid onset of old age? It would have been cool to at least see the original line-up in...

I was wondering how it the Shadowline characters were going to play in Secret Wars and it looks like it's going to be to make the Squadron Supreme look good. A waste of the likes of Doctor Zero who...

A big part of Fawcett's ceasing to publish Captain Marvel had to do with the changing times though. They thought that comics were on the way out, most of their superhero stuff was already gone and...

As far as I know, there haven't been any trades featuring their original runs. But, you can read them online at www.comicbookplus.com. Charlton did not properly follow copyright notation at the time...

That's part of the problem though. One of the first steps they did was get rid of the JSA, the biggest alternate earth guns they had. So, instead of more Alan Scott, Jay Garrick appearing in their...

I would say comics are just the wrong medium for it. Car chases are one thing that television and movies do extremely well that comics have a hard time capturing even on a mediocre level. The sounds,...

Kind of sums up the problems with the companies today. Instead of focusing on telling good, solid stories, they want to tell stories that are important and matter, so it's constantly changing...

Agreed. Uslan's story could have worked as a prequel, before the fated plane incident, before he becomes that superman forged from tragedy. Maybe his wife/fiance was kidnapped. Most of the Doc and...

I think the case with the Ultraverse isn't they cannot use them but they are not willing to under the terms of the various creators' contracts. The fact that Malibu could publish the comics and a...

Article overstates it somewhat. Ultron really defeats himself. Ultron's multiple personalities led to the dominant one to start pulling himself apart trying to purge the evil versions from himself....

This sounds like it will be good, building on what made the stories and characters interesting instead of changing everything about them. Several of his crew were touched by crime and tragedy as he...