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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Reed Crandall
Description	Cover, Hit Comics #18, Quality Comics (defunct co.), December 1941, art by Reed Crandall
Source	http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=1851&zoom=4
Article	Reed Crandall
Portion used	Full cover
Low resolution?	yes
Purpose of use	To illustrate the work of the visual artist who is the article's subject
Replaceable?	No free alternative available
Other information	Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: It illustrates an educational article about the visual artist. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic. The image is from a historically significant, 67-year-old (as of 2008) issue from the period known as the Golden Age of Comic Books. The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the book. It is a low-resolution image. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

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Cover, Hit Comics #18, Quality Comics (defunct co.), December 1941, art by Reed Crandall. Depicts Stormy Foster, The Great Defender

Source: http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=1851&zoom=4

This image is fair use because it is a low-resolution, small-sized reproduction of a historical magazine cover that shows the artist's work. It's the only bit of the artist's work in the article. It's illustrating the work of the article's subject in a non-misleading way that doesn't take any commercial business from the copyright holder.

[edit] Licensing

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- the issue of the comic book in question;
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- 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.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	06:49, 22 December 2005	400×543 (55 KB)	Tenebrae (Talk \| contribs)	(Cover, ''Hit Comics'' #18, Quality Comics (defunct co.), December 1941, art by Lou Fine. Depicts Stormy Foster, The Great Defender Source: http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=1851&zoom=4)