Fiction House Public Domain

Fiction House is known as one of the most famous budget publishers of pulp mags and comic books. The characters created at its aegis and zenith aren’t yet public domain friendly in the rest of the world. 

Sheena has been hit the hardest, as her personality and body template are amongst Will Eisner and Mort Meskin’s many creations, whereas the whole conceptual story centring around her was unfortunately a brainchild of Jerry Iger. As a result, various incarnations of the character, or more accurately, many characters of the same name within a legacy roster, are simply waiting to become public domain in various nations at various stages. Also, she is currently trademarked by Dynamite Comics. 

Ki-Gor was a Tarzan Competitor who appared in nearly 60 official instalments for the Jungle Stories mag. He and Helene Vaughn were created by the late, great John Murray Reynolds late in 1938, so the first classic stories won't ever become public domain until 2064 for much of the world including Australia. Also, Ki Gor is already trademarked in America by CreateSpace, so that we don’t really use him (nor his likeness) much without his current owner’s permission. 

Kaanga was another Tarzan Competitor, this time from the comic books, who appeared in hundreds of comic book issues. He, Ann Mason and their shared origin story do not become public domain until 2040 in Australia and much of the world. The rest of the comics will wait until 2050, 2054 and 2083, assuming it’s for countries with life+70-71 years.