User blog comment:Chugite/National Comics Publications vs Fawcett Publications/@comment-2020232-20180606043637

FAwcett was not driven out of business. They were a large and successful publishing company before and after they published comic books. They simply shut down their comics deivision when they agreed to stop p[ublishing Captain MArvel. Yes, the case was expensive, but c omics sales were in decline as well.

What really lost the case for Fawcett was that it was admitted that some stories were copied from Superman stories. That is a violation of copyright. Every other argument, on both sides, was thrown out.

And C aptain MArvel was not in public domain in 1972. Fawcett still owned the copyright on him.