Complete list of expired Marvel licenses? (ex. ROM, Conan, etc.)

[Gaastra]

din't also one of the conan comics contain an Explicit Elric crossover?

A issue of marvels he-man had him cross over with flash gordon! (marvel owned the defenders of the earth rights but used the classic flash for the crossover!)

[Güicho]

Oh yeah! Marvel's Zorro license was based on 1990 TV series staring Duncan Regehr, and everything therein.
Including an episode where Zorro met inventor Doctor Henry Wayne (played by Adam West), implication being he would pass down the idea of what he saw to his descendant (Batman also played by himself)- So for an instant Marvel had licenced the implied great great grandfather of Bruce Wayne

Is Zorro not in the public domain?

Yes and no, people need to distinguish;
Right to reproduce print the original story, yes.
Right to create and sell new material, using the likeness, recognizable elements and trade marks maintained by Zorro prod. Inc, no. (at the time this was a licensed (from Zorro Prod Inc.) series, both the TV show, and the comic)

[Güicho]

din't also one of the conan comics contain an Explicit Elric crossover?

Woh, i wan't to read that, which issues?

I remember getting Marvel's trippy Elric graphic novel... and some of the Epic issues.



Edit: Quick search...

Actually plotted by Michael Moorcock and script by Roy Thomas. Will have to get these!

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[Güicho]

A issue of marvels he-man had him cross over with flash gordon! (marvel owned the defenders of the earth rights but used the classic flash for the crossover!)

...Issue # ?

Edit:
Ok found it Marvels: Masters of the Universe #11, Prince Bar'in of Aarboria makes casual homage to Price Barin of Arboria, but that wasn't a licensed crossover.
And he doesn't really look that much like him or fill a similar role.
And unless I missed it, Flash Gordon doesn't actually appear does he?

used the classic flash for the crossover!)

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As far as Defenders of the Earth yes that was Marvel licensing the King Feature characters; Flash Gordon, Phantom, Mandrake & Lothar.

[Güicho]

Proto-Flux-Capacitor the Oscillation-Overthruster armed at 0:55
And No mater where you go, there you are.
The cultural phenomena, (...that never was.

[milton75]

Of all those listed, while at Marvel which actually crossed over into the Marvel U?
That I can think of...

Micronauts
ROM the Space Knight
Conan
Doc Savage (above^)
Godzilla
War of the Worlds (By way of killraven?)
Star Trek I believe had cross over?

What others?

One of the Shogun pilots latter went on to being Captain America's pilot for a while in the Grunewald run too.

Doctor Who appeared in the main 616 Marvel Universe.

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[milton75]

...and then whenever Claremont had a chance he tended to pop in references to The Doctor.

Excalibur #25

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Fantastic Four (Vol 3, 1998)

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And the U.N.I.T. team appear in Uncanny X-Men 218.

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[milton75]

Regarding the licensed comics in general, there's quite a big list (I don't know if it is exhaustive) here: http://comicartcommunity.com/comicar...censed-comics/

The kids' comics alone cover a huge range in the 80s.

The licensed titles included Fraggle Rock, Heathcliff, Strawberry Shortcake, Get Along Gang, Muppet Babies, Star Wars: Ewoks, Care Bears, Thundercats, Star Wars: Droids, Masters of the Universe, Madballs, Hugga Bunch, Animax, Popples, Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos, Defenders of the Earth (featuring Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician), Inhumanoids, Heathcliff’s Funhouse, Flintstone Kids, Foofur, SilverHawks, Air Raiders, Bullwinkle and Rocky, Masters of the Universe: The Motion Picture, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, and Count Duckula (featuring Danger Mouse). While adapting various series for toy companies and cartoons, Star Comics was home to many adaptations of Marvel Productions series.

That's before even looking at imprints like Marvel UK that had another host of licensed comics; see here:
https://michaelowencarroll.wordpress...vers-timeline/

[Gaastra]

There was a fun "unofficial" doctor who cameo in heroes for hire. (or at least nods to him)

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Doctor who also had a role in death's head coming to the main universe tieing him to the transformers universe a bit!


The real ghostbusters showed up in a issue of the uk transformers also! (it was more or less a fun cameo) A zombie starscream was the bad guy!

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LOL Sectaurs with their theme, animation and toy line always struck me as the fourth unmentioned stepchild of the Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment/Pacific family of concepts.

We had the Felines, the Avians, the Aquatics .... and were just missing the Insectoids.

Although it was a completely different company:

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...in part compounded at the time cause along with Sectaurs, Marvel (Star) also had the Thunder Cats and Silver Hawks license..