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Public Domain Super Heroes is a collaborative website about public domain characters from comic books, comic strips, films, books, pulps, mythology, television, animation, folk stories, among others. Open source characters are also allowed but do not add AI generated characters. After Action Comics #1 gave the world Superman in 1938, there was ...
- Jerry Stanford
- BEST: Phantom Lady. Phantom Lady is in the public domain as long as we're talking about things DC Comics didn't add to the character. Her secret identity, her black light ray, and her bright blue costume with the red cape are free to use.
- WORST: Crimebuster. When a character's costume is a hockey uniform and a cape, it's starting off badly. Crimebuster was a teenage boy whose parents were killed by a villain named Iron Jaw.
- BEST: Daredevil. The Golden Age Daredevil might be one of the best-known public domain superheroes. His appearance is almost iconic with red and dark blue alternatingly opposed in his costume.
- WORST: Red Rube. Sometimes, one just has to wonder if Golden Age creators were even being serious. Rueben Rueben was the real name of this boy. He got his powers from the ghosts of his ancestors, who all had the same repetitive name.
- Blue Beetle (Dan Garret) Starting our list we have a character that most comic book fans will be very familiar with, Blue Beetle. Not the character in general, just the Dan Garret version of the character.
- Arrow. Arrow (Ralph Payne) was first published by Centaur Publications in Funny Pages #21 (1938) and was the first archer-themed superhero to feature in comic books.
- Amazing Man. Amazing Man (John Aman) was first published by Centaur Publications in Amazing Man Comics #5 (1939). I have no idea why they started his publication at issue 5 but hey ho!
- The Clock. Despite the fact that Superman is commonly recognised as the first costumed superhero in comic books. However, there was a costume crimefighter (not superhero) that proceeded him, Clock (Brian O’Brien).
Jun 10, 2020 · Several companies have made significant use of public domain characters in recent years. Dynamite Entertainment publishes Project Superpowers, a series that has revived many heroes from the Golden Age of comics (aka the 1940s), uniting them in a shared world that pulled them from the end of the Second World War and into the modern day.
Feb 19, 2021 · A way to find the superhero we need to build our comic book empire. We must venture into another realm, one where thousands of superheroes are suspended in time and space. That realm: the Public ...
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