The two characters below that represent the Counterculture era the best are Octobriana and Trashman, subversive products of underground presses in Russia and America. Most works from this era fall well after the current U.S. public domain cutoff of 1930, and those listed here like the Tower Comics line entered the public domain only because their copyrights were not properly secured, renewed, or maintained under the laws then in effect, according to research conducted by folks associated with the Public Domain Super Heroes Fandom Wiki.
| Era Counterculture (1964 – 1972) |
| Alternative Names Counterculture Movement, Swingin’ Sixties |
| Total Entries 33 |
| Articles Counterculture of the 1960s – Wikipedia Octobriana – Wikipedia Trashman (character) – Wikipedia |
| Description The two characters below that represent the Counterculture era the best are Octobriana and Trashman, subversive products of underground presses in Russia and America. Most works from this era fall well after the current U.S. public domain cutoff of 1930, and those listed here like the Tower Comics line entered the public domain only because their copyrights were not properly secured, renewed, or maintained under the laws then in effect, according to research conducted by folks associated with the Public Domain Super Heroes Fandom Wiki.
The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement… It began in the mid-1960s, and continued through the early 1970s. It is often synonymous with cultural liberalism and with the various social changes of the decade. The effects of the movement have been ongoing to the present day. The aggregate movement gained momentum as the civil rights movement in the United States had made significant progress, such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and with the intensification of the Vietnam War that same year, it became revolutionary to some… As the era unfolded, what emerged were new cultural forms and a dynamic subculture that celebrated experimentation, individuality, modern incarnations of Bohemianism, and the rise of the hippie and other alternative lifestyles… Post-war affluence allowed much of the counterculture generation to move beyond the provision of the material necessities of life that had preoccupied their Depression-era parents. The era was also notable in that a significant portion of the array of behaviors and “causes” within the larger movement were quickly assimilated within mainstream society, particularly in the United States, even though counterculture participants numbered in the clear minority within their respective national populations… ~ Counterculture of the 1960s – Wikipedia
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