Talk:Golden Age of Comic Books

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[edit] Public domain

Would it be worth a section on public domain characters and titles? [1] (Emperor 03:08, 24 August 2007 (UTC))

I've removed the "Legacy/public domain" section since, among other things, it's a poorly constructed mishmash with grammatical and other issues that lumps modern-day uses of old characters together with new characters inspired by old characters, the latter of which is simply homage and another issue entirely.

Second, this section is off-topic: The article is about a particular industry's historical era, and not whatever-happened-to updates on particular superheroes. Why go into the modern-day uses of public domain characters and not other characters? (Note: Comic-book public-domain characters are a topic not specific to the Golden Age; 1950s or even '60s characters from defunct companies may be PD.)

Third, and this goes across all of WPC, many articles make references to PD characters without concrete evidence this is so, or even, in many cases, a simple citation. Corporate attorneys have difficulty determining whether a character is in the public domain (trademarks are a little easy), and we bandy about the term based on ... what? Certainly, a publisher may in good faith publish comics with characters he or she believes to be in the public domain, but which actually are not. (This has happened many times with home-video releases of obscure movies, for example.)

That third issue is only a sidebar. The first two speak more directly against its inclusion in an article title "Golden Age of Comic Books" — a bare-bones article, I must say, that needs an enormous amount of research and beefing up of pertinent areas. --Tenebrae 16:34, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article collaboration

This article, about an important period in the history of American comic books, starts out with a strong intro, and then just meanders with received wisdom and no concrete references. It's too significant a topic to leave fallow. Most of the scholarship on the Golden Age of Comics probably appears in books rather than websites, judging from a quick Google search. Many of my books are in storage; a few are not. I'd like to ask my fellow editors to dig out their own and help bring this important article up to speed. With thanks, --Tenebrae (talk) 15:36, 29 January 2008 (UTC)