Having received reliable information that copyrights for Fawcett/Marvel material post-1951 had been renewed, we are pulling those titles. It appears that in 1977 when CBS bought Fawcett, they began renewing titles which were up for renewal -- this was NOT done by DC, who did not own the copyrights in the first place, but by CBS, Inc. While I doubt that CBS really gives a rat's ass...we do.

Orders already placed will be honored (because they are already in process and could not be stopped if we wanted to), but no future orders for post-1951 Marvel material can be taken. We are reviewing our entire Fawcett/Marvel line and may have to wipe it all out and start from scratch. This is going to be unsettling to many readers, and it will definitely hurt our business, but we are dedicated to publishing ONLY public domain, legal material. We may have to remove earlier material as well -- I am sorry, but we have to be legal.

If you have any questions about specific books, please let me know. It will take about 24 hours to make these changes.

I am sorry in advance for any inconvenience.

Please feel free to share this on social media where appropriate.

Lance
gwandanaland@yahoo.com

To be clear, we are not giving up on the Fawcett stuff - once we know for sure what is PD and what isn't, and where to go to get those rights, we hope to be right back where we started, or close to it.

And no - this does not affect ANY other publisher or line of books.

Kendsgerningen er, at DC er pisseligeglade med Capt. Marvel, og har altid været det.

DC Comics har gennem årene udgivet adskillige miniserier og fortløbende serier med Captain Marvel-figurerne og planlægger at starte en ny Shazam-serie til november.

Derudover får vi en spillefilm med Billy Batson & co. i 2019.

MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL REMAINS PUBLIC DOMAIN

I have researched the Captain Marvel Adventures issues which contain MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL stories, and they were NOT renewed. The issues almost immediately after that were, but Monster Society slipped in under the wire before the renewed interest in the so-called "Shazam" series, and so this book will NOT be removed from sale. We are completely confident that this book is public domain.

There will be many which cannot be retained, because the renewals, though sporadic, are there.

But MSE is safe!

We have already requested that the Marvel/Fawcett line from Gwandanaland Comics be removed, and that should happen any minute now. I thought it would have happened yesterday.

And here's the report on the complete Fawcett/Marvel line. These ARE the public domain comics:

Whiz Comics #1-2, 7-63
Captain Marvel Adventures #1-2, 7-46
Master Comics #1-60
Wow Comics #1-35
Captain Marvel Jr #1-28
Mary Marvel Comics - NONE
Marvel Family - NONE

So, we were right to pull the line and start from scratch. Only collections which are public domain will be offered in the future, and as you can see, none will be complete.

Just some good news from the "Tragic Purge of 2018":

The Mac Raboy Treasury: Volume 1 is not going anywhere -- it is public domain. The stories are part of those which were never renewed.

The Mac Raboy Captain Marvel Jr Album Volume 1 will be back; all those stories come before any renewals. There is not likely to be a Volume 2, however.

THE LAST RETIREMENT UPDATE FOR THIS WEEK

This takes us 95% of the way through this process... I swear !!

FIRST - THE "UN"RETIREMENT BOOKS

These books, thought lost to the mists, after more careful research, are coming back completely as-is.

I should not have done a wholesale retirement; I should have been slower and methodical as I am being with the Quality and Standard/Nedor books.

I apologize for the troubles.

I still have to review the Captain Marvel (Sr.) books to see what might come back in some form. As for CMJR, what you see below is pretty much all we can legally do, maybe a smattering more.

The Golden Age Captain Marvel Jr.: Volume 1
The Golden Age Captain Marvel Jr.: Volume 2
The Golden Age Captain Marvel Jr.: Volume 3
The Golden Age Captain Marvel Jr.: Volume 4
The Golden Age Captain Marvel Jr.: Volume 5
The Golden Age Captain Marvel Jr.: Volume 6
The Golden Age Captain Marvel Jr.: Volume 7
The Origin Comics Of Captain Marvel Jr
Golden Age Captain Marvel Jr. Giant #1
Golden Age Captain Marvel Jr. Giant #2
Golden Age Captain Marvel Jr. Giant #3
Mac Raboy's Captain Marvel Jr. Album: Volume 1

NOW THE COMPLETE RETIREMENT LIST FOR MONDAY NIGHT (That's when I will put the request in-not sure how long it will take them to do it) -- THOSE MARKED WITH AN "*" WILL BE REPLACED WITH OTHER BOOKS OF THE SAME TITLE WITH SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT CONTENTS.

THIS TAKES US 95% OF THE WAY THROUGH THIS PROCESS!!!!!

Doll Man: Volume 3 *
Doll Man: Volume 4 *
Doll Man: Volume 5
Plastic Man: Volume 4
Plastic Man: Volume 5
Plastic Man: Volume 6
Police Comics: The Crime Years – Volume 1
Police Comics: The Crime Years – Volume 2
Police Comics: The Crime Years – Volume 3
Police Comics: The Crime Years – Volume 4
Reed Crandall's Blackhawk: Volume 4 *
Fighting Yank Treasury: Volume 1*
Captain Future: Volume 1
The Complete Masked Rider
The Complete Mystico
Golden Age Mask: The Complete Series
Space Rovers
The Sphinx
Black Terror: Volume 5
The Complete “Son Of The Gods”
The Scarab
Golden Age Doc Strange: Volume 1*
Captain Kid
The Complete Mr. Tawny Tales
Space Adventures: Volume 4
Woozy Winks
Great Covers: Volume 2 – Blackhawk *
The Complete Unusual Tales: Volume 10
The Complete Unusual Tales: Volume 9
The Complete Bulletman: Volume 6
A Bulletman Chronicle
Lost Heroes Of Standard Comics: Volume