[dombo]

Here is, sooner as aspected, the list of comics that i think might
be suitable to upload to the site.
I did look if a comic allready is on the site so the comics on this list
are not allready on this site.

I don't have a clue which comics and which not are public domain so i hope
the experts can help me out with that.

I presume all the comics from DC, no matter how old, are not public domain ?
The same goes i presume for the comics in the Archie series ?
Because i also have a lot of comics from these 2 titles.


Thanks anyway for helping me sorting out which is public domain.


Abbot and Costello (Harvey)
5 and 7

Amazing Adult Fantasy (IND)
v2 7-14

Amazing Ghost Stories (St. John)
14,15,16

Animal Fables (EC)
1-3

Baby Huey (Harvey)
11 issues

Baby Snoots (Gold Key)
1,12,17

Baby Snoots (Whitman)
9

Beetle Bailey (Charlton)
20 different issues

Beverly Hillbillies (Dell)
2-8 11,13,15,17

The Beyond (Ace)
2,6,7,12,17,23

Black Cat (Harvey)
4,7,16,20,21,24,64,65,66 Recollections 1,3,7,9 Western 16

Black Cat (Thrill Adventure)
Western 54 and 56

Blue Beetle (Charlton)
3 and 5

Blue Beetle (Fox)
34,40,41

Carl Anderson's Henry (Dell)
32 different issues

Crime Patrol (EC)
10,12,14,

Dagar the invincible (Gold Key)
5,6,16

Daisy and her pups (Harvey)
9,11,13,14,17

Dandy Comics (EC)
1-3

Dennis the menace (Standard)
1-9

Dennis the menace (Pines)
24 and 26

Dennis the menace (Fawcett)
48

Devil Kids (Harvey)
7 different issues

Dynamo (Tower Action)
1-4

Fat and Slat (EC)
1-4

Fighting Marines (St. John) (ANC)
7 different issues

Flipper (Gold Key)
1-3

Gasp (ACG)
1-4

Harvey Hits Magazine (Harvey)
9 different issues

Haunt Of Fear (EC)
13 different issues

Huckleberry Hound (Dell)
11 different issues

I Spy (Gold Key)
1-6

Invaders (Gold Key)
1-4

John Carter of Mars (Gold Key)
1-3

Katzenjammer Kids ?
3 comics and 1 with the newspaperstrips from 1939

Land of the giants (Gold Key)
1-5

Land of the lost Comics (EC)
1-9

Lassie (Dell)
26 different issues

Little Audrey (ANC)
4,7

Little Audrey (Harvey)
25,26

Little Audrey and Melvin (Harvey)
6 different issues

Playful Little Audrey (Harvey)
4 different issues

Little Dot (Harvey)
8 different issues

Little Lotta (Harvey)
8 different issues

Little Lulu (Dell)
63 different issues

Mars Patrol (Gold Key)
3,4,6

My favorite Martian (Gold Key)
1-9

My little Margie (Charlton)
6 different issues

Nyoka the jungle girl (Fawcett)
5 different issues

Outer Limits (Dell)
1-8

Panic (EC)
1

Peter Porkchops (IND)
62

Piracy (EC)
1-7

Quick Draw McGraw (Dell)
2, 4-11

Quick Draw McGraw (Charlton)
3

Richie Rich (Harvey)
395 different issues from different titles

Ripley's believe it or not (Gold Key)
13 different issues

Sad Sack (Harvey)
87

Scamp (Gold Key)
7 different issues

Scamp (Dell)
9 different issues

Shock SuspenStories (EC)
4,9,11,17

Space Family Robinson (Gold Key)
1-5 31-40

Spaceman (Dell)
1-8

Spine Tingling Tales (Gold Key)
1-4

Spooky (Harvey)
15

Spyman (Harvey)
1-3

Super Goof (Gold Key)
11 different issues

Tales To Astonish (IND Miss America Publ.)
1-101

Thirteen Goin On Eighteen (Dell)
1-29

Thrill-O-Rama (Harvey)
1-3

Thunder Agents (Tower)
1-12 14-20

Tiny Tot Comics (EC)
1,7,10

Twilight Zone (Gold Key)
1-91

Two-Fisted Tales (EC)
9 different issues

Ufo and outer space (Gold Key)
14-22

Ufo flying saucers (Gold Key)
1-3

Underdog (Charlton)
3,5

Undersea Agent (Tower)
1-6

Vault of horror (EC)
12 different issues

Voyage to the bottom of the sea (Gold Key)
1-15

War against crime (EC)
5

Warfront (Harvey)
37-39

Weird Fantasy (EC)
13

Weird Science (EC)
11

Weird Science Fantasy (EC)
23-29

Wendy the good little witch (Harvey)
15 different issues

Wild Wild West (Gold Key)
3-7

Yogi Bear (Charlton)
1,19

Zorro (Gold Key)
4,6,7

[kozmo]

Pretty much all of these are still under some form of copyright or trademark protection.  There are a few, like the St. John titles or The Beyond from Ace that are publishers that went under in the mid-50's and thus never renewed their copyrights.

Anything that's a media tie-in like Lassie, The Beverly Hillbillies, etc. is going to have rights controlled by some conglomerate, even if the individual stories themselves were not ever renewed. (Not to mention that many of these books are well beyond this site's timeline, which is pre-Comics Code.)

Books like Dell's Spaceman, which I don't believe was a licensed title, might be possible, but I believe this board's policy on Dells has been to be very careful and only post works that we know for sure were not licensed and were never renewed. That's an individual call by the mods.

The mods have also been very cautious with EC titles -- although Fat and Slat may be one that was never renewed (it was certainly never reprinted by any of the EC reprint publishers).  Land of the Lost Comics was brought up once before, and it was a licensed comic based on a radio show. The radio show itself is available from old-time radio sites, but because it was a license, there was some question about if it could or should go up on this forum.

i'm sure that at least one of the mods and/or scanners will chime in and clarify much more than this rambling note. But the short version is, very little, if any, of your list meets the guidelines for public domain.

[dhfh]

Hi dombo,

Well, here are a few points that can quickly help to narrow down the number of candidates from your list:

All Gold Key titles are outside of our Golden Age focus, which--as kozmo pointed out--is the pre-Comics Code era (before ca. 1954), because Gold Key was apparently started in 1962. 

The same goes for any titles from Tower Comics, which began in '65 (and on top of that, I believe the "T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agets" in particular are supposed to be owned completely by Joe Carbonaro).

The Fox Features "Blue Beetle" issues would normally be needed, except that #34, 40 & 41 are already here in the Fox Features section.  The Charton "Blue Beetle" issues you cite are probably from either of two different 1960s incarnations, judging by the issue numbers 3 & 5 (because Charlton's Golden Age "Blue Beetle" series started with issue #18).

Many thanks for bringing your collection forth for examination!


Cheers,

DHFH