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Non-free media information and use rationale true for Steve Ditko
Description

Single panel, approximately one half of one comic-book page, published in various DC Comics comic books, including Batman #322 and The Legion of Super-Heroes #262 (both cover-dated April 1980)

Source

http://www.ditko-fever.com/dcprofile58.html

Article

Steve Ditko

Portion used

single half-page panel as published; a 1/72nd portion of a single 36-page comic book

Low resolution?

low, unsuitable to use for high-end reproduction. It is sized at the minimum width necessary to make the text caption, an integral part of the image, legible, and to render each of these characters, created by the article subject, with details visually readable.

Purpose of use

Illustration of the artist's work. Comic books are a visual medium, and no encyclopedia article about a comic book artist can be reasonably comprehensive without examples of his art. This single panel, made as a promotional piece, allows for a depiction of several characters that the artist created, all in one place, vastly minimizing the need to use more than one source to give examples of his work — in particular, his 1970s and early 1980s DC Comics work, which is a major section in this educational article about the artist, a figure of public interest.

Replaceable?

No free-use image available. As these are fictional, copyrighted characters, a freely-licensed alternative could not reasonably be obtained.

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    • the scene or storyline depicted, or
    • the copyrighted character(s) or group(s) depicted on the excerpted panel in question;
  • where no free alternative exists or can be created,
  • on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright for more information.

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current02:16, 2 October 2017Thumbnail for version as of 02:16, 2 October 2017450 × 272 (230 KB)Ronhjones (talk | contribs)A small cropping and partial reduction - still readable
00:10, 8 September 2011No thumbnail554 × 336 (206 KB)Tenebrae (talk | contribs){{Non-free media rationale <!-- {{Non-free image data --> | Description = Single panel, approximately one half of one comic-book page, published in various [[DC Comics] comic books, including ''Batman'' #322 and ''The Legion of Super-Heroes'' #262 (

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