Public Domain Superhero's and Supervillain's...

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Here is a long list of Superhero's that are in the Public Domain... Free to use as you wish... No Charge...


Snip... an example.... Captain Battle

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Do not worry I have a list of Supervillain's as well...

https://pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Villains

snip... example... Count Berlin

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I know based on our ages we all wanted to create our own comic when we were younger...
 
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I remember how excited I was when I saw my first Kull comic... Kull was standing on the deck of the longboat on the cover...

He is now in the Public Domain...

 

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I was looking through the list of hero's and some were pretty cool... and some were duds... There are themes too; like the WW2 superhero, Crime theme comics hero's, Western hero's and the typical ones...
 

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Here Public Domain Day 2022... sound recording enter the public domain for the first time...

 

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I was looking for a list of artworks entering the public domain...


Art
  • Beckmann, Max: Portrait of Quappi in Blue
  • Bradshaw, H. Chalton, & Gilbert Ledward: Guards Memorial (London)
  • Calder, Alexander: Very Flat Cat
  • Dalí, Salvador: The Basket of Bread
  • Diamon, Charles T., & John Paulding: Astoria Victory Monument
  • Dickinson, Edwin: The Cello Player
  • Gordine, Dora: Chinese Head (Chia-Chu Chang: The Chinese Philosopher)
  • Höch, Hannah: Love
  • Kahlo, Frida: Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress
  • Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig: Brücke bei Wiesen
  • Laurencin, Marie: Les Désguisés
  • de Lempicka, Tamara: Kizette in Pink
  • Laurencin, Marie: Head of a Woman
  • Magritte, René: La traversée difficile (The Difficult Crossing) (first version)
  • Malkine, Georges: Nuit d’Amour
  • Matisse, Henri: Yellow Odalisque (also known as Nude on a Yellow Sofa)
  • Monet, Claude: several paintings from his Water Lilies series
  • Patigian, Haig: Statue of Abraham Lincoln (San Francisco)
  • Proctor, Dod: Morning
 

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I found this a list of comic or cartoon characters that should have enter the public domain but for some reason did not enter the public domain, yet...

https://www.diversetechgeek.com/cartoons-public-domain-2022/

dc...
  • Aquaman characters:
    • The Fisherman
    • Aquababy (Arthur Curry, Jr.)
  • Batman characters:
    • The Time Commander
    • Blockbuster (Mark Desmond version)
  • Green Lantern characters:
    • Krona
    • The Silver Age Evil Star
  • Legion of Super-Heroes characters:
    • Glorith
    • Kid Psycho
    • Starfinger
  • Metamorpho characters:
    • Metamorpho
    • Simon Stagg
    • Java
  • Wonder Woman characters:
    • Egg Fu
    • The Glop
  • Animal Man
  • Beast Boy
  • Enemy Ace
  • Immortal Man
  • Judomaster (Charlton Comics)
  • The Silver Age Key
  • Prince Ra-Man
  • The Silver Age Psycho-Pirate (Roger Hayden)
  • Son of Vulcan (Charlton Comics)
  • The Teen Titans (the team’s first appearance named as such)
  • Ultra the Multi-Alien

marvel...

The Inhumans (the team itself, plus):
  • Lockjaw
  • Black Bolt
  • Triton
  • Karnak
  • Gorgon
  • Medusa
  • Spider-Man characters:
    • Harry Osborn
    • Mary Jane Watson (with her face hidden; first full appearance was in 1966)
    • The Scorpion (his alter-ego Mac Gargan first appeared earlier, in 1964)
    • Gwen Stacy
  • X-Men characters:
    • The Juggernaut
    • The Sentinels
    • Warren Worthington, Jr. (Angel’s father)
  • The Absorbing Man
  • Hercules (Marvel’s version)
  • Hydra
  • Ka-Zar
  • SHIELD (and the SHIELD helicarrier)
  • Sin-Cong
  • Stilt-Man
  • Zabu
Here are other like Atom Ant, Secret Squirrel, and others so check out the link...
 

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It's 2023 so more written, film, audio, and art have out of copyright protection... The film Metropolis, a film by Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou (1927)


Happy Public Domain Day... Franz Kafka’s Amerika is now in the Public Domain...


Here even parts of Mickey Mouse enter the Public Domain...

 

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Wiki has another aspect...


When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of works that entered the public domain in 2023. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.


Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1927, films released in 1927, and other works published in 1927, entered the public domain in 2023. Unpublished works whose authors died in 1952 entered the public domain.


Public Domain Day (PDD) is an observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain.[1] This legal transition of copyright works into the public domain usually happens every year on January 1 based on the individual copyright laws of each country.[1]

The observance of a "Public Domain Day" was initially informal; the earliest known mention was in 2004 by Wallace McLean (a Canadian public domain activist),[2] with support for the idea echoed by Lawrence Lessig.[3] Several websites list the authors whose works are entering the public domain each January 1. There are activities in countries around the world by various organizations all under the banner Public Domain Day.
 

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For @jgoodguy copyrights...




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Here is a preview Happy Public Domain Day 2024...


Come January 1, 2024, the film—along with other copyrighted works from 1928—will finally enter the public domain in the United States. For lawyers, scholars, artists and other onlookers, the expiration of Mickey’s copyright is a big deal.

While the spotlight is understandably on Mickey and Minnie, many other enduring works are also entering the public domain on January 1, 2024. Here’s a selection of some of those books, movies, plays, musical compositions and sound recordings:
 

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I found Public Domain Day 2024 more list...

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On January 1, 2024, thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1923. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon.
 
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