Films Tagged as Comic Book Adaptations That Adapt Newspaper Strip, Other Media Properties

Flash Gordon started as a newspaper strip, the Green Hornet started as a radio show. Subsequent adaptations into the comic book medium do not make film adaptations of those properties based on a comic book. The Transformers have also had many comic books depicting adventures; should the Transformers film receive the tag of based on a comic book? What of the Lone Ranger, who had a long-running comic book series?

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sai_arun_muthusamy

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5 years ago

Those four properties, notably Transformers and Lone Ranger, are best remembered for their TV shows. Transformers in particular started out as a toy cartoon.

In my view, if the property was directly adapting a comic, then it can count as a comic adaptation.

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KentYing

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If the people who started these properties had not properly registered these properties, they would have slipped into the public domain. Also, the owners of these properties have presumably kept them in trademark, out of the public domain.

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KentYing

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Also, recall that Disney did not gain control of Iron Man, Captain America, etc. by purchasing Paramount, but by purchasing the publisher where the creation of these properties took place.

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Grayson

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Hey - if you don't think a keyword that is attached to a title is correct you can submit a deletion. Here's the guide on keywords to help you do this:

https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/keywords/GXQ22G5Y72TH8MJ5

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KentYing

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I keep doing so and receicing a response that the support crew seems unable to verify the correction. Even a cursory, rudimentry search into these history of these properties will corroborate in which medium they commenced.

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Films Tagged as Comic Book Adaptations That Adapt Newspaper Strip, Other Media Properties

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