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SteveDaultonJR
10-20-2005, 02:02 AM
Is there any worth wild golden age super hero's left not owed by Marvel or DC. Considering D.C bought out the rights to Quality,Charlton,and Fawcett characters. Archie still has retained the rights to there masked heros after loaning them out to D.C for the Impact line (as far as I know). Is there anyone left in limbo? What was the bigger seller not owen by any of the for mentioned above...Oh besides the Spirt. Thank to anyone that replys. Alright thats post one.
T GUy
10-20-2005, 05:24 AM
There's the Standard/Nedor/Pines lot from Thrilling Comics etc., i. e. The Black Terror and his stablemates (Americommando? Doc Strange). There were a horde of publishers back then all producing a horde of heroes (sometimes a rather small horde, to be true...). Hmmm... Fiction House are not noted for superheroes, but I'd bet they produced the odd one in the back of Jumbo Comics or something.
gentlesatirist
10-20-2005, 07:15 AM
...probably not. Sheena, Queen of the Jungle would be under Fiction House, I guess.

The only other one that comes to mind is Charles Biro's Crimebuster character, which I think was owned by Lev Gleason.


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Slam_Bradley
10-20-2005, 08:25 AM
The only other one that comes to mind is Charles Biro's Crimebuster character, which I think was owned by Lev Gleason.



Lev Gleason published some pretty popular heroes. Daredevil being pre-eminent. The Silver Streak. Captain Battle. The above-mentioned Crimebuster. And, of course, the ultimate yellow menace, The Claw.
Rob Imes
10-20-2005, 09:27 AM
AC Comics has published new stories featuring Crimebuster, Daredevil, Iron Jaw, etc.

The thing is, these characters get revived for a little while, and then slip back into limbo again. The Archie heroes, Fighting American, Airboy, The Heap, Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, Skyman, etc., all have had brief returns to comics only to vanish again for long periods of time.
Harry Angel
10-26-2005, 02:28 AM
I'm not quite sure what their status is these days, although of course Eclipse published them during the 1980's, but Airboy, SkyWolf and the Heap are all still out there.

And then there's always the wonderfully well done, but baddly named Fatman, the Human Flying Saucer or Nemisis and even MagicMan. And of course Herbie.

All from ACC

(of course that last bunch are Silver Age but still, they are very cool characters.
T GUy
10-26-2005, 06:32 AM
Quick Correction Corner: Fatman, the Human Flying Saucer was from Lightning Comics rather than ACG.
RawShark
10-26-2005, 07:39 AM
Would Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom qualify?

How bout pulp heroes, Tarzan, Doc Savage, the Shadow and the Spider (although all have been revived by either Marvel, DC or others)
hey, wouldn't this group make a great "team" comic?
Harry Angel
10-26-2005, 10:30 AM
Quick Correction Corner: Fatman, the Human Flying Saucer was from Lightning Comics rather than ACG.

So true.

I wrote that sentence baddly.
SteveDaultonJR
10-29-2005, 07:36 AM
I would like to thank everone that relpyed. There's some great info.I'm glad this topic hasn't died yet. I really should exstend this question to include the silver age concidering I included Charlton in my original post who's super hero boom didn't start untill the 60's. I there is plenty of lost gems that I'm sure I have over looked.

I also completly forgot the Golden Key heros Magnus Robot Fighter and Man of the Atom (Dr.Solar) that started around 54' and Mighty Samson in th 60's. It seems that Western Publishing Company has retained the rights to Magnus and Solar from Acclaim. I' also sure the dell has retained Turok but It looks like the the other Valiant charecters will share a collective fate in bankruptcy Hell. I'm sure mcfarlane has the auction date marked on his calender.
SteveDaultonJR
10-30-2005, 11:35 AM
I would love to see a team of pulp heroes (adding Green Hornet and maybe Remo Williams to the list) take on Fu Manchu. Fu Manchu is the templet of for so many super villains that came after but his storys always lacked a great hero to face him. If you think about how many Villians get top billing over the hero. No matter how cunning he was writen he always got bested by some run of the mill, bland anglo hero.I think it would do him justice to have him take on a pulp all-star team. I guese this basically be a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with pulp heroes. Wasn't there a Manchu doppelganger appear in LEG? None the less I agree this would be a great idea and I'm suprised Dark Horse hasn't jumped at this.
Paul Newell
10-30-2005, 11:53 PM
Which ones are currently being utilised by Alan Moore's ABC comics?

I think the series is called "Terra Obscura".
SteveDaultonJR
11-10-2005, 04:29 AM
Can't belive this one skipped my mind. This is a pretty huge list. Robert "The Black Terror" Benton, Doc Tom Strange ,George "The Ghost" Chance,Bob Benton: The Terror ,Tim Roland (terrors sidedkick)DickMartin: Pyroman ,Mystico,ect..Alan Moore used about every character puplished by Nedor Comics the 40s as Tom strongs earth 2 counterpart. They had been long forgoten in public domain.
Jeremy A. Patterson
11-10-2005, 10:26 AM
Archie is planning a revival of their Golden-Age Do-Gooders in a few proposed movie concepts:

*A, J, B, V, R & The WEB (A combination live-action/CGI flick based on a circa-1999 webcomic team-up between the ARCHIE gang & the hero who debuted in 1942's ZIP COMICS #27, the webcomic featured art from NEAL ADAMS!)

*COMET BOY & The WIZARD (A team-up flick starring a kid version of Jack Cole's circa-1940 cult-classic & the MAN WITH the SUPER-BRAIN!)

*The JAGUAR (Based on Archie's Silver-Age hero, this film takes more of a TARZAN approach to the character!)

*STEEL STERLING (The most faithful of the hero flicks!)


There is a petition website about it, too, so LOOK FOR IT!

J.A.P.
Bicycle-Repairman
11-10-2005, 11:24 PM
I would love to see a team of pulp heroes (adding Green Hornet and maybe Remo Williams to the list) take on Fu Manchu. Fu Manchu is the templet of for so many super villains that came after but his storys always lacked a great hero to face him. If you think about how many Villians get top billing over the hero. No matter how cunning he was writen he always got bested by some run of the mill, bland anglo hero.I think it would do him justice to have him take on a pulp all-star team. I guese this basically be a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with pulp heroes. Wasn't there a Manchu doppelganger appear in LEG? None the less I agree this would be a great idea and I'm suprised Dark Horse hasn't jumped at this.

The copyrights to the pulp characters mentioned are still owned by different companies, and it would be difficult to arrange the various licensing deals for a team book. For example, the rights to Fu Manchu are still controlled by the Sax Rohmer estate, which is why Marvel can't reprint their old Master of Kung-Fu series that featured Fu and why the character wasn't refered to by name in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
SteveDaultonJR
11-27-2005, 03:33 AM
After reading Moores proposal for "Twilight of the superheroes" it turns out that he had a group consisting of the Shadow, Doc Savage and Tarzan lead by Batman. I'm not sure of the exacted timing but I had some Phantom comics by D.C in the 80's. Man, the thing that could have happen if Moore stuck around.
SteveDaultonJR
11-27-2005, 04:10 AM
http://home.insightbb.com/~GoldenYears/Library.html

All these comic are said to be in public domain but that doesn't mean the characters are since I see Blue Beetle and Marvelman aka Miracleman among them. So there is free rain on reprints just not original material. Even soo, it's still a cool site. I wish I had the resources to research the public domain and trademark archives. Am I the only one that finds this fascinating.
DOOM2099
11-27-2005, 03:09 PM
Wha? How did you find this? This is awesome... Goodbye world. Please send Dew.

Kimota!