# Marvel - Micronauts rights **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-micronauts-rights/753137 "2016-04-25T23:19:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-micronauts-rights/753137/21 "2016-04-28T01:31:31Z")
> [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](#): > > IIRC the Dire Wraiths were a Marvel creation and therefore they can continue to use them. This doesn’t necessarily follow, FTR. For the characters from ROM and Micronauts, it holds, but apparently Hasbro changed their licencing terms by the time Marvel was licensing Transformers, since Marvel had to introduce characters they intended to use in Transformers, but not give to Hasbro, in other books. [Thus Circuit Breaker being introduced in Secret Wars](http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/12/04/comic-book-legends-revealed-184/3/), and [Death’s Head getting a one-off strip before he was put into Transformers](http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/01/10/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-137/). (I think they had a similar deal with the BBC concerning their Doctor Who comic, but I can’t actually find reference to that. I have no idea what the deal on GI Joe was.) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-micronauts-rights/753137/22 "2016-04-28T03:31:27Z")
Aside: A lab I graded (on electromagnetic induction) had the question “Why are there no DC transformers?”. One student wrote “Because Marvel got the comic book rights”. ---
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-micronauts-rights/753137/23 "2016-04-28T08:17:43Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Aside: A lab I graded (on electromagnetic induction) had the question “Why are there no DC transformers?”. One student wrote “Because Marvel got the comic book rights”. My sides have just split.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-micronauts-rights/753137/24 "2016-04-28T13:57:03Z")
I’m pretty sure I still have Micronauts #1 and R.O.M. #1 in a filing cabinet at my mother’s house. ---
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-micronauts-rights/753137/25 "2016-04-28T14:04:12Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I’m pretty sure I still have Micronauts #1 and R.O.M. #1 in a filing cabinet at my mother’s house. Luckily I have a complete set of both Marvel Micronauts series and most of the ROM series. Not sure if they are worth much financially, but I do enjoy re-reading them. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-micronauts-rights/753137/26 "2016-05-03T22:36:28Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > This doesn’t necessarily follow, FTR. For the characters from ROM and Micronauts, it holds, but apparently Hasbro changed their licencing terms by the time Marvel was licensing Transformers, since Marvel had to introduce characters they intended to use in Transformers, but not give to Hasbro, in other books. [Thus Circuit Breaker being introduced in Secret Wars](http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/12/04/comic-book-legends-revealed-184/3/), and [Death’s Head getting a one-off strip before he was put into Transformers](http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/01/10/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-137/). > > (I think they had a similar deal with the BBC concerning their Doctor Who comic, but I can’t actually find reference to that. I have no idea what the deal on GI Joe was.) They were occasionally using Dr Demonicus long after they’d given up the Godzilla licence where that villain first appeared. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-micronauts-rights/753137.md?page=1)