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Defiant1:
I noticed that the Internet Archive has most of Skywald's output available for download. Does that make them legal for download or are they in violation of copyright law?

Yoc:
Sorry, I'm not sure.  But they are post 1959 so they couldn't be shared here.

-Yoc

John C:
Skywald is a weird case, because the comic books have copyright statements, so they're new enough to definitely still be under copyright.  But the magazines (which are basically just comic books and published at about the same time by the same people) don't have copyright statements, so are in the public domain.

Defiant1:

--- Quote from: John C on July 06, 2020, 04:43:23 AM ---Skywald is a weird case, because the comic books have copyright statements, so they're new enough to definitely still be under copyright.  But the magazines (which are basically just comic books and published at about the same time by the same people) don't have copyright statements, so are in the public domain.

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That is odd. I assumed the comics were just reprints of old stuff for which he had recovered the plates. As in printing plates from defunct companies. I'm sure there was some convoluted reasoning behind what he did.

I've been updating this page I made years ago.

http://comicchecklists.coolpage.biz/Skywald/Skywald_Comics_Index.html

Every once in awhile I'll pick out some company that interests me and I'll start putting together a checklist of everything they produced. Skywald comics interested me because they had a Marvel squarebound look to them. After completing my checklist, I'll decided if there are any rarities or obscurities that I want to own. Charlton is the checklist that will never be completed before I die. EC is the checklist that I'm too cheap to afford. Companies like Skywald are easier to complete, but there isn't much I want to own. King magazine is really the only series I'd like to own, and those aren't comics. At one point, I wanted to have a complete set of the comics made by Atlas/Seaboard. I picked up a copy of My Secret #1 which is pretty darn rare. Then the dealer I bought that from discovered he had the only known surviving copy of My Secret #2. He wouldn't accept my offer on it, so now I'm less interested in their product. I save a LOT of money by just making checklists.  ???

Yoc:
GL on the lists D1.
I bought as much of the Atlas-Seaboard books as I could find from $1 bin discards.  The Phoenix and The Scorpion early issues were quite good and Vampire Planet screams to be made into a movie IMO.  I never did see their magazines in there.  But I believe the entire line has been scanned afaik.

-Yoc

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