Gold Comics

Gold Comics is an anthology comic book series telling new stories with public domain superheroes while reprinting some of their old adventures, as well. It primarily focuses on Madame Fatal and is the first title to have a print edition for Karabear Comics.

Public domain
In the early days of copyright law, one had to file for a renewal to keep copyright. Therefore, many characters created in the Golden Age of Comics ceased being copyrighted as their publishers went out of business and therefore did not maintain their copyright renewals. These uncopyrighted works are what is called the "public domain", free to use by anybody.

Lite bites
In 2010, Genejoke started the webcomic Lite bites, an anthology comic with contributions from across the website Drunk Duck. Ave Messer submitted a story called "Madame's Night Out" to the anthology and Genejoke decided to do the art. It ran as a short story on the comic, where it may still be accessed.

IndyPlanet
Ave decided to publish the story and, working with input from Genejoke, put together issue 1 of what she called "Gold Comics", to convey the Golden Age feel and to let people know that the characters were from the Golden Age. This was put up on IndyPlanet, a print-on-demand website for comic books.

Future endeavors
A successor story to "Madame's Night Out" is fishing for artists on Lite bites, which will be made into part of issue 2. It has no set date of completion.

Story
Gold Comics takes place on KC Earth-P, the Karabear Comics designate for a universe where all public domain superheroes live together. It follows Madame Fatal as the character interacts with the various superheroes and supervillains of the world.

Appearances
Gold Comics has had appearances by the following characters:
 * Bulletgirl
 * Bulletman
 * Captain Nazi
 * Madame Fatal

Creators

 * Ave Messer
 * Alex Korbey (aka Genejoke)