Who are the best public domain superheroes and characters?
Who are the best public domain superheroes and characters?
Connor Long
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Anthony Stewart
Plastic Man is public domain but trademarked.
Herbie Popnecker (who Alan Moore once said is his favorite super hero) is public domain. Herbie's great, you should read him.
Minimidget, the precursor to Atom and the rest, is public domain.
Cooper Edwards
Spider Widow & The Raven from Police Comics. The stories are too brief to develop much, but the concept is so weird (pretty athlete girl dresses as a witch and threatens people with spiders while romancing a hero whose identity she doesn't know) it's compelling. She also has a feud/crossover with Phantom Lady.
Jace Price
711 because he's a guy convicted of a murder he didn't do, who secretly escapes from prison each night to fight crime and returns back to prison pretending nothing happened. And then he also gets killed in his final story. One of his enemies is Brick Bat.
Justin Cook
Jordan Walker
S-sauce
Isaiah White
>All those crazy powers
I honestly believe there is nobody who can at least fight Stardust to a standstill.
Zachary Flores
>You will never have Carmen momplaying you
Ian Ross
Who are these characters supposed to be?
Harvey's Black Cat?
The generic WarnerBros 90's cartoon style is too generic to recognize these characters
Luke James
Since he's public domain, I've considered adding a superhero to my supers setting who is specifically raised and trained to kill Stardust, kind of like Drax the Destroyer. His superpower is a Doomsday-like ability to return from death or imprisonment adapted to whatever transformed, obliterated, or stopped him last.
Jayden Cooper
He's a poorly written power fantasy self insert in an old timey comic and it's great.
That sounds dumb and nobody should ever aspire to make a character that's "Doomsday-like"
Bentley Robinson
I have an idea!
Let's make our own Yas Forumsopereated Stardust Comic!
Post your ideas
Cooper Rivera
Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett)
Lev Gleason's Daredevil
Fox features syndicate Wonderman
Daniel Moore
He had a shitload of appearances in LMAC
Asher Hernandez
>Lev Gleason's Daredevil
That one's a pretty good comic.
Alexander Clark
>LMAC
Lower Merion Aquatic Club?
Andrew Diaz
What is LMAC?
Cameron Stewart
Blackhawks.
Anthony Fisher
Yeah it is, it's one of the few non-batman comics that handled the relationship between kids and superheroes in a fun way. In a better world, Charlton would have bought the little wise guys along with daredevil. Aside from that I'd recommend under sea agent, it feels like a weird attempt to cash in on aquaman and shield comics simueltaneously.
John Reyes
>Lev Gleason's Daredevil
his costume was designed by Jack Cole, Plastic Man creator, and looks awesome.
Henry Hill
Wasn't that how the power of stardust webcomic started?
Bentley Rogers
Scene: a barren wasteland. Might be Death Valley, might be Afghanistan, it's just rock as far as the eye can see.
Stardust flies into scene holding the Joker by the scruff of his neck, dumping him unceremoniously on the ground. He waves his hand and a chair and a small table appear, assembling themselves from the molecules of the air. His almost awkward-looking bulk floats gracefully down and he sits, crossing his legs, ankle over knee. Snaps his fingers and an hourglass appears on the table. He clenches a fist and crushes space and time itself into a tiny singularity, which he rolls over his fingers as he stares at the Joker, who rises and slowly begins to brush the desert dust from his purple pinstripe.
Stardust deliberately leans forward and turns the hourglass over. His face is about as animated as a corpse.
"Well then... Joker."
Stardust, the Super-Wizard, settles back in his chair and steeples his fingers, a side of beef frozen into a look of perpetual mild disgust.
"Make me laugh."
The Joker begins to sweat.
Easton Peterson
did somebody say public domain superheroes?
Easton Gomez
Dylan Clark
Cameron Parker
Adam Ross
Chase Perry
Tyler Lee
I remember when Alex Ross tried to make these happen.
Ethan Reed
when ?
Jackson Wilson
He did.
Astro City was that
Elijah Edwards
Tried?
But he did. It was successfull enough to have some sort of complet story.
Or do you mean penciled by him?
Michael Miller
Project Superpowers
It wasn't Astro City, you're thinking of Project Superpowers
Asher Ramirez
It is still happening though, but Daredevil was renamed to Death-defying Devil.
Nathaniel Flores
>Project Superpowers
yes you right, fuck
Lincoln Clark
>Plastic Man is public domain but trademarked.
What does this mean?
Camden Rodriguez
>I doooood IT!
What is it with vintage comics and unga bunga speech?
Ayden Diaz
>The Arrow
Not anymore! Thanks CW!
Nicholas Sanders
Project Superpowers is still a thing. Warren Ellis is doing a Black Terror comic.
Jason Miller
DC has the trademark of the name.
But you canuse the same character by another name.
(I think)
Parker Diaz
Power of Stardust started as me taking all the ideas I had in a Yas Forums thread on an Earth made of public domain superheroes and a /tg/ thread about a homebrew superhero setting and making a webcomic out of them. It also includes some ideas from a friend of mine named Espear who now does an interactive webcomic called Colony Corps (which I recommend checking out).
Black Terror and Tim by farrrrrr have the best costume.
Nathaniel Turner
It means no comic book named Plastic Man and no action figures named Plastic Man, but you're free to use him in your stories. It'll just have to be called "Return of Police Comics" or "Eel O'Brian Comics."
A big caveat though--Plastic Man's personality was much different under Quality comics compared to nowadays.
Daniel Carter
He wasn't a jokester back then, IIRC? So that's DC's gotcha if you try to make your own fanfic? Seems like it's not worth it to try for fear of being sued.
Jackson Gutierrez
The bottom text is hilarious, all the power and knowledge of science in the universe, devoted to busting rackets.
Ryan Price
He could be a jokester in the earlier stories, but it soon evolved so that the world he lived in was so surreal that, even with his powers, he was the only sane man. Similar to what Gerber did with Howard the Duck, only less cynical.
Julian Smith
Is he? Last I checked, Max Bemis was doing it.
Brandon Myers
I wish Yas Forums liked Herbie more. The sparse storytimes we get are wonderful.
Jackson Wright
Let's Make A Comic!
Leo Hernandez
Robert Ward
Parker Jackson
Wish The Ghost would get his own mini.
Cool menacing design and him having his own plane allows for a unique modis operandi. He can infiltrate Zeppelins in the air and such.
Imagine a villain looking out the window of his skyscraper penthouse and seeing fog & that giant skull suddenly rise up to his floor.
Luke Gonzalez
He was more of a playful straight-man in a mad-cap world. Woozy- his sidekick- was the real comedic relief, being sort of a W.C. Fields/Lou Costello type that Plas had to play tard wrangler for (in spite of the fact Woozy had a literally supernatural immunity to harm).
Adam Kelly
>no love for best girl
Bentley Bennett
I put her on the Circled Square. I had to give her some representation even if it was just a cameo.
Josiah Garcia
>In a better world, Charlton would have bought the little wise guys along with daredevil.
I'm kinda torn because there's so many ways that could've gone wrong. Like if Charlton bought the character outright and then DC bought Charlton in the 80's, then DC would be using him and that's like a 50-50 chance in the 00's and 10's of a bad story. At least since the character's PD, people can do their bad stories and be tossed aside.
Wyatt Ortiz
In the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen when Captain Universe catches him drunk and freezes him in Ice-9.
Apparently creator Fletcher Hanks was found on a park bench frozen to death.
Aiden Rodriguez
>V-Man and the V-Boys
Justin Barnes
They were trying to capture slang, just like modern writers using memes.
Jacob Gomez
>"Stardust"
>not Cody Rhodes
Why even post this?
Adam Davis
It's a Red Skelton reference
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Asher Sanchez
Did people in the 40s say "I doood it?" I've also seen plenty of kids in old comics just use actual caveman speak. "Wow Superman, me no like villains" level shit. Were people that bad at speaking back then?