It might be difficult to tell, but often I've had a go at being a funny person... nobody's laughed, but I also haven't had any tomatoes pelted at me yet, so I assume I'm not doing anything too bad yet... I assume Funnyman felt the same way when his 6 issue run ended,

Larry Davis (no relation to Larry David) was a comedian who wanted to do this cool publicity stunt where he dressed up like a clown and stopped an actor playing a criminal with all his funny props - basically making himself a superhero version of Carrot Top... except, when the day came, he ended up actually stopping a real criminal! This worked out well enough that Larry decided to keep up the crime-fighting, much to the dismay of Sgt. Harrigan as well as two other clown-themed heroes, Comicman and Laffman.

As I mentioned earlier, this character had a 6 issue run as well as a comic strip before fading into obscurity, along with its creators... Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster? The Supermen guys?

Yep, the Supermen guys. Funnyman (along with the publisher "Magazine Enterprises"... really creative, guys) came about when Siegel and Shuster left DC Comics (at the time National Comics) due to not being paid well. They also tried to sue them so they could get back the rights to Superman but, that didn't go over too well. They needed a new hero, one to grip the nation like Superman did. Their solution? Funnyman.

Yeah, don't make clown-themed superheroes, it doesn't go well usually.

In a slightly ironic twist of fate, Larry Davis eventually made his way back to DC as a cameo in Super Friends #5.

Heroes can come from many places, whether they be comics, books, movies, television, or maybe even radio... but what about leaked documents from a secret organisation dedicated to containing anomalous objects/entities?

Cameron's story starts off like most heroes. They were just a normal boy living in a turbulent household until, one day, they developed powers - in his case, telekinesis and the ability to alter objects (in one example he turns a rock into a toy he lost) - and he decided to use those powers to stop evil! Unfortunately, he lived in the same world as the SCP Foundation. When they caught wind of him, they did what they usually do - grab them, lock up, keep them away from the outside.

From then on it just gets really sad. The SCP Foundation isn't exactly the best place in terms of ethics, and of course, they want to learn more about this boy and his powers, so they put him through lots and lots of tests. Fake hostage situations, bombings, and accidents, all ramping up in severity to see how the pressure makes Cameron react. Of course, there are people within the Foundation who don't want these experiments to go on, but they push through to the point where this kid now has a chip in his head to monitor their brain. It may also cause neurological damage, and it can be used to "neutralise" them. Fun.

Like all SCPs, SCP-2241 is released under Creative Commons 3.0, which means you are free to share and adapt this creation to your heart's content, but you need to provide attribution and you have to release your work under that same license... I guess I might have to release this under creative commons then? Not sure why you'd want to use this, but you can if you want!

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We've covered how weird the copyright for this stuff works (see my entry for Blue Beetle), but for most of this series, I've stuck to heroes that are very much safe to use (even Blue Beetle has seen a comfortable amount of non-DC comics and movies for me to mention them). Today's hero is someone who you definitely can't use.

Billy Batson was just your average boy/radio presenter when, one day, he - no, wait, why am I explaining their backstory, they're Captain Marvel/Shazam, they have a big movie about them and they're a relatively well-known DC character, I don't think I need to explain them that much.

Now, Captain Marvel was originally published by Fawcett under loads of different comic lines, all of which you can just easily find online in a legal way since they are just public domain. As I mentioned earlier, most of the heroes covered here fall into the public domain do so because their copyrights weren't registered or renewed between the late 1920s and early 1970s (do your own research). Now, Fawcett was great at trademarking their comics, but really blew it when it came to registering/renewing copyright, hence why this guy is in the public domain (along with some of their other characters, like Peacemaker).

So, what are the trademarks? Well, obviously Shazam is off the table since that was entirely DC's idea... Captain Marvel can't be used since Marvel Comics now owns that one for their own character... and oh, you can't use the name "Billy Batson" either, since DC also owns that one... basically, if you want to use this character, it has to be a nameless cameo or an expy (the latter of which you could already do with any copyrighted character).

In short: just don't bother.

Between the red sands and the green sun of Hybor-E1 stands an impossibly large stone tower - the Rhino Tower. Locals say it's inhabited by Albrecht D. Whipple, the Mad Wizard.

Jenny Everywhere has a package to deliver to a prisoner in the tower's depths.

Tor the Asgardian sees treasure in the tower and wants it for himself.

The ladder salesman wants to sell a really big ladder.

ARE YOU BRAVE ENOUGH TO ENTER THE RHINO TOWER?

Read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49228531/chapters/124216873