Originally posted by Sin I AM
Todd lost a legal battle.
Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
McFarlane vs. Neil Gaiman, legal battle. Gaiman won and sold the character rights to Marvel.She's been a part of the MU since 2013.
Isn't that kind of the same thing like how DC/WB lost the "rights" to Captain Marvel?
Originally posted by Flyattractor
[b]Isn't that kind of the same thing like how DC/WB lost the "rights" to Captain Marvel? [/B]
Unless you mean something else, DC never lost the rights. Fawcett Comics had been out of business for about a couple decades, and Marvel made their own "Captain Marvel" to secure the trademark, which isn't the same as copyright.
They did this before DC started licensing some of the Fawcett Comics characters(before eventually buying the properties). Since Marvel owned the trademark, while DC could still use the name "Captain Marvel" in the actual stories, they couldn't use it for title name and whatnot.
Now, I don't have a source for this, but I'd figure since they were using "Shazam" as the central trademark for the title names, and that kinda became the brand, that's why DC stopped using "Captain Marvel" as the name after FLASHPOINT. But we see they still had the copyright when Earth-5 Captain Marvel showed-up in THE MULTIVERSITY and I think CONVERGENCE.
So yeah, this isn't the same thing. McFarlin straight-up lost in court, DC just decided it'd be easier to use "Shazam" as the character name since that basically became the brand.
Here's some stuff for whoever would be interested in the legal history.
http://goodcomics.blogspot.com/2005/06/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-2.html
http://goodcomics.blogspot.com/2005/07/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-6.html
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/08/18/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-12/