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[edit] Summary

Scan of the front cover of the first issue of the three part comic book adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Published by DC Comics, 1993.

[edit] Fair use rationale

This image is being used in a lead article about the various versions and adaptations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and illustrates one of the specific adaptations.
The comic book itself had a limited print run, and has become rare, thus the image provides proof of the existence of this particular adaptation.
It is believed that the use of this image does not infringe upon the copyrights of the estate of Douglas Adams or upon the copyrights of DC Comics.

[edit] Licensing

This image is from a comic strip, webcomic or from the cover or interior of a comic book. The copyright for this image is most likely owned by either the publisher of the comic or the writer(s) and/or artist(s) which produced the comic in question. It is believed that

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- the issue of the comic book in question;
- the periodical comic book series of which this issue is a part; or
- the copyrighted comic book character(s) or group(s) on the cover of the issue in question;
or the use of low-resolution images of a single panel from a comic strip or an interior page of a comic book to illustrate:
- the scene or storyline depicted, or
- the copyrighted character(s) or group(s) depicted on the excerpted panel in question;
where no free alternative exists or can be created,
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright for more information.

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current	01:26, 31 May 2005	328×504 (55 KB)	JohnDBuell (Talk \| contribs)	(Scan of the front cover of the first issue of the three part comic book adaptation of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' by Douglas Adams. Published by DC Comics, 1993. {{fairuse}})