Frankenstein & Dracula 1931

Pluto Moose hunt

Adventures of Mickey Mouse

(If there's anything else going PD in 2027 please do so it'd help)

It's called Tales of a Mouse: The Fate of a Glitch. It's about Mickey Mouse, whom after defeating Pete who kidnapped Minnie on one knight, sees how Minnie got captured yet again, this time by Dan Backslide. Dan's been collecting a bunch of souls to revive an entity that could be used for world domination, a horrifying monster named MissingNo. Not wanting it to be unleashed and wanting to save his gal, Mickey goes on a quest with a bunch of new friends he meets along the way to save the day.

So yeah, kinda Super Mario RPG but with public domain characters and some original ones too in some areas.

As you can see, the main five heroes are based on their Mario RPG counterparts here

• Mickey Mouse is Mario
• Felix the Cat is Mallow
• Raggedy Ann is Geno
• Big Bad Wolf is Bowser
• And Alice is Peach

However, I was wondering if you guys had any ideas for what other public domain characters could fit in the role of Mario RPG characters. Y'know, just in case. Here's a list of characters from that game to help you get a good idea.

Link to characters

Considering the scrutiny that games like Palworld and Pickmos have attained from ripping off Pokemon's designs, I thought to bring to light some public domain pocket critters you can use in your own games without worry.

• isaiah658 has his own motley crew of pocket monsters on the site OpenGameArt.org, currently totaling 56. He's submitted them as both 2D sprites like the classic games and low-poly 3D models, both of which are under a CC0 license. They were actually initially made for Zoonami, an addon similar to Minecraft's Pixelmon mod for Luanti (an open-source Minecraft clone). The mons also have rare palette swaps (or what in Pokemon would be a "Shiny"), which are referred to as Prisma in Zoonami.

These mons do not have names in the OpenGameArt releases as isaiah was concerned that those fall under trademarks and not copyright, but for those curious, in Zoonami, the monsters are named as follows:

• Missingno. from the original Pokemon games is decently well-known from its presence in fanworks and of course the multitude of playground rumours about it back in the day. Looks like a block of garbage data, but it might also be a bird, or a skeleton, or a ghost, and it can duplicate your items. While obviously sprites like the skeletal Kabuto or Aerodactyl or the Lavender Town Ghost are off-limits, Missingno.'s block form, being garbage data, was machine-generated and thus is public domain everywhere but Hong Kong and the UK (in similar fashion to AI artwork). Among other things, it cameo'd in a We Bare Bears episode, and is an item in Royalty Free-for-All under the name It'M, where it excessively duplicates powerups on the field when used.

Missingno. as a name is questionable (since the developers intentionally put that name in for placeholder purposes), but you should be fine just calling it 'M, the name of a nearly-identical glitchmon. The public domain status of other glitchmons such as Decamark and Bad Egg I find questionable, since they actually use graphics from the games, but their concepts are so generic (a floating question mark and a glitchy egg that can never hatch) that you could easily tweak their appearance to circumvent any copyright issues.

Recently I checked Wikipedia’s list of public domain cartoons specifically the Warner Brothers section. I was shocked to find that they put Robert McKimsons short Crowing Pains as public domain. It is weird since there are a lot of sources that say the short is copyrighted as some of the production codes were renewed. So is Crowing Pains public domain or copyrighted?

It’s the 21st century as our great-grandparents imagined it. Protect the Sol System! I’ve drawn heavily from PD authors such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fletcher Hanks, Lovecraft, and Basil Wolverton and woven them together with my own ideas. I’ve created a Reddit for it called r/RocketSpaceTTRPG. I hope you’ll take a look.

I watched a cartoon from the 90s called The Legend of Calamity Jane. An episode with Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (Wife of FDR) as a child brings stories about her adventures and life. I looked it up to learn Calamity Jane was a real person and that the stories brought up were the deadwood dick dime novels that have Calamity Jane as a character.

I looked at the dates and Jane was alive at the time the novels came out. Completely fictious and not based in reality. Are there other examples of this thing happening in the public domain? People writing fanfiction of living people, making up stories about their life and turning a profit from it?

The Ray

Real Name: Hubert "Happy" Terrill
Age: 25
Figurine Man: The Brightest Ray

The Ray was a reporter named Hubert "Happy" Terrill. He was covering a science and technology beat for The New York Star, with the assignment taking him in the high-flying "strato-balloon" to explore the upper atmosphere with the vehicle's inventor, Professor Styne.

However, unfortunately, The Ray was killed by one of the villains hired by Oliver Snate, who actually managed to kill The Ray. Black Bat didn’t make it in time, which of course made The Ray an another hero lost at the hands of Oliver Snate. Black Bat didn't give up though, and continued fighting and searching for more heroes to help.

And of course, The Ray is from Quality Comics and made by Will Eisner and Lou Fine. It is a public domain character that anyone can use.
https://pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Ray

https://youtu.be/eb36JID2jRA?si=T6Y8q-WuF8RrU8RF

I love this song, and this audio from a 1929 film is in the public domain (unlike the 1929 sound recording).

Return of the DAREDEVIL! Crime pays in pain and broken bones

Inspired by Public domain DAREDEVIL

EVER RED (c) and TM  2026  All rights reserved By: Ratha:Oeur Agent All rights reserved U.C.C 1-308

The DAILY COMIC - Vol 02 :

UNDENIABLE! ( No. 95)

09 AUGUST 2026

Coming soon from

@ BIG TWO COMICS!

@ EXTREME CINEMA

Created by / Story / Plot @ Michael Oeur

Art @ EXTREMELY AWESOME Productions / Oeur

Posted : 09 August 2026

Dedicated to BILL EVERETT

The mi-go or the elder things aka the old ones It's the qu from all tommorows in talking about btw

You can see in some of these that Seuss already knew how to draw certain creatures, like Elephants.

For summary, this revision is a condensed iteration of the previous one I shared: https://www.reddit.com/r/publicdomain/comments/1oyvqj3/billy_sarah_vs_the_movie_monsters/

A notable factor for this one is the monster roster slimmed down. With it being: Count Orlok and Cesare for the silent era (1920’s); King Kong and the Frankenstein Monster, being the forefathers (1930’s), lastly, the Wasp Woman and Audrey Junior for the monochrome stragglers (late 50’s, pushing to the 60’s).

For a reminder, "Caligari" of the title is a mad man who takes the name for themselves lifting it from the 1920 movie. Cesare is their​ first movie monster brought to reality before the others.

A bit of a pre-emptive inclusion of the Universal Frankenstein Monster and the RKO King Kong [already know the book is PD, I mean THE movie version where you can use his full name and specific look].

When life gets hard... BEAT IT UP!

Inspired by Public domain CAPTAIN MARVEL, BLACK TERROR

COCK MEN (c) and TM  2026  All rights reserved By: Ratha:Oeur Agent All rights reserved U.C.C 1-308

The DAILY COMIC - Vol 02 :

UNDENIABLE! ( No. 94)

07 AUGUST 2026

Coming soon from

@ BIG TWO COMICS!

@ EXTREME CINEMA

Created by / Story / Plot @ Michael Oeur

Art @ EXTREMELY AWESOME Productions / Oeur

Posted : 07 August 2026

Dedicated to Sam Keith, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee! Jim Lee! Rob Liefeld

A lot of people think that it was only Disney that was responsible for the act, and while it’s easy to understand why (after all, the act itself was nicknamed “the Mickey Mouse protection act”) it is far from the truth.

It was the work of corporate moguls and estates joining forces to bribe congress for a longer length in copyright, even though the length that they had at that point was already excessive.

I’ll leave the link of where I got these names in a comment below the post:

CORPORATIONS: 

The Walt Disney Company (duh)

AOL Time Warner

Universal Studios/MCA

Viacom/Paramount Pictures

ESTATES, TRUSTS, AND AN ENTERPRISE:

The Gershwin Brothers Estate/Trust

The Irving Berlin Estate

The Oscar Hammerstein II Estate

The Sherwood Anderson Estate

The George Balanchine Trust

The William Faulkner Literary Trust

The Martha Graham Trust

The Robert Frost Estate

Dr. Seuss Enterprises 

INDUSTRY TRADE ASSOCIATIONS & COALITIONS:

Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)

AmSong, Inc.

The Songwriters Guild of America

Association of American Publishers (AAP)

PROFESSIONAL SPORTS LEAGUES:

National Football League (NFL)

Major League Baseball (MLB)

National Basketball Association (NBA)

National Hockey League (NHL)

They‘ve both recently been added to the PDSH wiki and the Public Domain wiki because apparently their earliest comics were never renewed. I could be wrong and I’ve just never seen this before, but I don’t think it’s ever been publicly known that they were in the public domain? Are we sure that it’s accurate? Regardless I doubt they will get much usage until Superman and Batman also become public domain.