who owns

[BART ALLEN]

Lets say dc wanted to use Egg head or King tut could they. who owns the rights?

[Matches]

Presumably Time-Warner. I understand King Tut is going to be making an appearance in Batman Confidential.

[jmb418]

It's my understanding that the rights to the Batman TV series are pretty mixed up right now, which is one of the reasons it's not out on DVD.

[thunderdude]

A more serious King Tut could be a good Hawkman villian.

[Scott Mateo]

Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir are doing a King Tut story in BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL

[J-Liv]

My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that DC/Warner own all the characters, but the company that produced the show (who escapes me at the moment) owns the actual production itself. Hence trouble.

-J

[Nunzio DeFilippis]

Lets say dc wanted to use Egg head or King tut could they. who owns the rights?

BART ALLEN

Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir are doing a King Tut story in BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL

Scott Mateo

We did write a King Tut story. But we weren't able to name him William Omaha McElroy. It wasn't because of specific legal concerns, but rather a preemptive plan to avoid any legal issues.

[Matches]

I suppose it's not like anyone can really trademark "King Tut."

[Mark MacMillan]

What about Egghead? Seriously, he was the only villain created for that show that actually deserves to be brought over to the comics.

Batman really doesn't have a villain on par with him intellectually and preparation wise (except for Ra's, but his shtick is more shrouded in mystery and ancient secrets)

[Matches]

What about Egghead? Seriously, he was the only villain created for that show that actually deserves to be brought over to the comics.

Mark MacMillan

Only villain? {falls out of chair}

The Siren? Louis the Lilac? Those English people that ran the criminal boarding school full of hot girls? Olga, Queen of the Bessarovian Cossacks?

There's GOLD in them thar' hills.

[odessasteps]

What about Marsha, Queen of Diamonds? Colonel Gumm?

[Matches]

Marsha was awesome. There should be more stories about villains trying to trick Batman into marrying them.

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Marsha was awesome. There should be more stories about villains trying to trick Batman into marrying them.

Matches

A dimensionally displaced Silver Age Lois Lane gets amnesia and becomes the villainous "Black Widow Bride"?

And Marsha, Egghead, King Tut and Bookworm were referenced as "real" in the mainstream DCU by no less a person than Neil Gaiman when he has the Riddler lament their absence in a "Secret Origins" comic.