Image:GL087.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale

Non-free image data
Description

Cover of Green Lantern vol. 2, #87 (Dec-Jan, 1972). Art by Neal Adams.
Source

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24687&zoom=4
Portion used

Full front cover as published.
Low resolution?

300px size unsuitable to use for high end reproduction.
Other information All DC Comics characters and the distinctive likeness(es) thereof are Trademarks & Copyright © 1972 DC Comics, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Non-free image rationale for John Stewart (comics)
Article

John Stewart (comics)
Purpose of use

Illustration of a specific point within the article.

  • Historically justifiable and significant image (character's first cover treatment, depicts industry landmark -- one of the first African-American superheroes)
Replaceable?

No free use image available. As these are fictional, copyrighted characters and a copyrighted publication, a freely-licensed alternative could not reasonably be obtained.
Non-free image rationale for Superhero
Article

Superhero
Purpose of use

Illustration of specific points within the articles.

  • Historically justifiable and significant image (character's first cover treatment, depicts industry landmark -- one of the first African-American superheroes)
Replaceable?

No free use image available. As these are fictional, copyrighted characters and a copyrighted publication, a freely-licensed alternative could not reasonably be obtained.

[edit] Licensing

Copyrighted This image is from a comic strip, webcomic or from the cover or interior of a comic book. The copyright for this image is most likely owned by either the publisher of the comic or the writer(s) and/or artist(s) which produced the comic in question. It is believed that
  • the use of low-resolution images of the cover of a comic book to illustrate:
    • the issue of the comic book in question;
    • the periodical comic book series of which this issue is a part; or
    • the copyrighted comic book character(s) or group(s) on the cover of the issue in question;
  • or the use of low-resolution images of a single panel from a comic strip or an interior page of a comic book to illustrate:
    • the scene or storyline depicted, or
    • the copyrighted character(s) or group(s) depicted on the excerpted panel in question;
  • where no free alternative exists or can be created,
  • on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright for more information.

To the uploader: please add a fair use rationale as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

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current08:15, 5 August 2007300×446 (82 KB)J Greb (Talk | contribs) (Images used as the basis of the revised FUR.)

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