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« on: November 03, 2006, 10:01:42 PM » |
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« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2006, 11:49:53 PM » |
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Just a quick question regarding the "dead publishers"
I have EC Comics "Land of the Lost" issues 1-9. Does the Pre-Trend EC Comics fit your category? I would think the various horror titles from EC would still be copyrighted, but I wanted to be sure about "Land of the Lost."
Issue 9 for example was published in 1948 and came out at the same time as the Happy Houlihans #1 and A Moon, A Girl and the Prince #1 -- both pre-cursors to the more famous EC titles.
Thanks
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« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2006, 02:21:18 AM » |
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When Gaines sold Mad in 1961 he still retained ownership of the rest of EC and was licensing them out for reprints till his death in 1992 when the rights became the property of the Gaines estate, l believe the rights to all the old titles is now held by Gemstone Publishing, and l would not consider them to be public domain, but the final decision is up to Serj
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« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2006, 12:00:40 AM » |
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I notice (belatedly, sorry), that Ajax-Farrell is not on the above list of accepted publishers. Are their titles still in copyright? I uploaded Voodoo 01 to the FTP, but as with the initial EC's, if you can't use them, please feel free to delete them, as I know with the rather prodigious undertaking ya'll have, at some point, space will be an issue.
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« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2006, 03:41:35 AM » |
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I'm not sure if I qualify as knowledgable, but here goes:
Magazine Enterprises, a division of Sussex Publishing. Probably most famous for their A-1 series, home to the original Ghost Rider, a western hero, and Thun'da, a jungle hero, issue #1 of which series is the only comic ever drawn entirely by Frank Frazetta.
United Features Syndicate, a newspaper-strip-to-comics-format publisher.
David McKay Publications, home to the Phantom, Jungle Jim, Krazy Kat and other comedy & adventure strips.
Harvey Publications, a publisher that was targeted almost as bad as EC by Dr. Wertham for their horror and mystery line of comics.
Lev Gleason, publisher of Boy Comics (later Boy Illustories, starting with issue 43), and many true crime and law enforcement comics, as well as various children's genre titles, such as Adventures in Wonderland.
Superior Comics, a Canadian publishing company.
D.S. Publishing Co. another of the pre-code companies cited by Wertham for their crime and horror titles, and subsequently pushed out of business during the CCA purge.
That's all I can think of right now, off the top of my head, but there are quite a few more that I know of, just can't recall who or what they were or what they published...
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« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2006, 02:02:36 PM » |
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I didn't compare this with previous lists, but from Mike Benton's "The Comic Book in America" (1993), here is a list of publishers that published during the Golden Age....
Ace Magaazine - 1940-1956 American Comic Group/ACG - 1943-1967 Archie Comic Publications Inc/MLJ - 1939- Avon Comics Group - 1945-1956 Better Publications - 1939-1959 (Standard, Pines) Catechetical Guild - 1942-1972 Centaur Publications - 1938-1942 Charlton Comics - 1946-1986 HArry "A" Chesler - 1937-1948 Comic Media - 1951-1954 Comics Magazine Company Inc - 1936-1937 DC Comics - 1935- Dell Publishing Company - 1936-1973 Eastman Coloe Printing - 1936-1956 EC Comics - 1946-1956 Farrell Comic Group - 1951-1958 Fawcett Publications - 1940-1953 Fiction House - 1938-1954 Fox Feature Syndicate - 1939-1951 Gilbertson Publications - 1941-1971 Lev Gleason Publications - 1939-1956 Harvey Comics - 1939- Hillman Periodicals - 1940-1953 Holyoke Publishing Company - 1940-1946 Magazine Enterprises/ME - 1944-1958 Marvel Comics - 1938- David McKay Company - 1936-1951 Stanley P. Morse - 1951-1955 Novelty Publications - 1940-1949 Parents Magazine Institute - 1941-1950 Prize Publications - 1940-1963 Quality Comics - 1939-1956 St. John Publishing - 1947-1958 Stanhall Publications - 1953-1954 Star Publications - 1949-1954 Sterling Comics - 1954-1955 Street and Smith - 1940-1949 Superior Comics - 1947-1956 Timor Publishing Company - 1953-1954 Toby Press - 1949-1955 United Features Syndicate - 1936-1955 Ziff-Davis Publications - 1950-1957
Notice the numebr that stopped publishing in 1954/1955..... Dave
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« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2006, 02:14:07 PM » |
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Just a quick note. Some publishers, like Avon, occasionally used an imprint. Avon's was "Realistic", generally found on the covers of their one-shots. I have uploaded Dead Who Walk NN to the FTP, as a Realistic, but it should go in the Avon folder.
Another that I can think of is Biro Publishing, which, I believe was an imprint of Lev Gleason...
Hope this helps, Cimm
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« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2007, 02:27:13 PM » |
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Land of the Lost was a licensed title -- it was a popular children's radio show -- and definitely fit in with Max Gaines' idea of more educational children's publications, as opposed to William Gaines' desire for profitability and a more adult sensibility.
the Land of the Lost radio show (or at least episodes) are available on various old-time radio sites, so I'd imagine that there are no renewed copyrights on the material. So those early EC's are most likely PD. Given that Gemstone has not republished them at all (along with the Picture Stories titles) would indicate that there's no current claim on them (after all, they've gone after everything else with the fabled EC name attached to it -- and some of that early material was really, really weak).
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