Arcouding to the public domain superhero wiki, the characters of Gorgo, Konga and Reptilicus are in the public domain. Claim that, since they first appeared in comic books and that copyright in those books have lapsed, that characters, not the movies, are now public domain. Is there any truth to this?
To our understanding this only means the comics themselves are in the public domain. The characters and the films they appeared in are not. Though don’t necessarily take our word for it, there’s probably someone else who knows much more about it.
Keeep in mind the Reptilicus comic had to be renamed Reptisaurus midway through due to Charlton Comics losing the rights to the name.
I wondered if I could fill an entire sketchbook page with Toho monsters from memory
Well would you look at that! I couldn’t even fit every Showa era kaiju I remembered on one page!
I guess my memory isn’t as bad as I thought
Btw if you are wondering, there are 28 characters on this page, some of them are hidden beyond recognition (if you find them all I’ll be extra proud of you)
Well anyway, I really like the look of this page, so guess I’ll try that again someday
