[@IceHeart] My big question is, what about characters that started as Independant comics, but were absorbed into one of the big 2, like Watchmen or Conan the Barbarian? Also, with characters that have had such an immense and widespread usage that have been in Marvel/DC, (examples: King Arthur, Hercules, Count Dracula, etc.)  Would we be able to use any iteration of that character? Or would we be limited to any iteration that wasn't from the big two?

The third big question is what i like to call the "Rights Nightmares" like Rom the SpaceKnight, where he is an independent character, created and owned by Hasbro, but literally all of his backstory, side-cast, expanded universe stuff is created and owned by Marvel. Or Transformers, where a number of their characters and stories were created by Marvel, despite Transformers and all of its main cast belonging to Hasbro.