Legally speaking how far would someone be allowed to use a plausible-public domain status comic villain like Gargantus here? Obviously not the name or his later color schemes. And how the hell did Elektra and Deadpool managed the kill this guy with a bunch of regular ass weapons when howitzers and tanks couldn't do dick?

A d of anyone wants to storytime his appearances be my guest.

>>149321388 (OP)
>And
Hiro's idea of forcing opening posters to wait two full minutes for captcha is unnecessary.

>>149321388 (OP)
If the first appearance isn't public domain then it's not public domain, it just means you might be able to reprint the public domain comic but not under any active Marvel trademark

>>149321388 (OP)
>Make him purple, call him the Mammoth Merman, give him super intelligence, avoid references to Atlantis, have him rampage in a city that isn't NYC, make sure his eyes aren't yellow, don't shrink him down

Done. Royalty check pleez.

>>149321553
Yes, a similar situation happened to Popeye and us happening with Superman.

>>149321388 (OP)
OP I get you want to use the 200 foot Merman by Jack Kirby but as >>149321553 said just because you might be able to reprint as issue doesn't mean you can pick the elements apart and use them before 2055. That said you could use Fin Fang Foom, Orrgo, Mechano, The Thing With Two Heads, and those two Aztec paint monsters that reappeared in Fantastic Four Annual issue 5 from the mid 90s.

>>149321581
Popeye is pd everywhere since a year ago, the US was the last place he wasn't pd

>>149321905
I mean

you could do that, assuming that someone would buy it and it would be worth your time to produce

and if you did do that, you could get sued regardless because - get this - if a copyright holder asserts that you're infringing a later copyright on a legally distinct but similar character, you've fucked yourself in the ass with a cactus

>>149322353
>copyright on a legally distinct but similar character
So Universal could sue anyone making a Dracula or Frankenstein adaptation that follows the book, got it.