Comic book features questionably public domain Mickey Mouse comics from the 1920, complete with suicidal gunplay and racist imagery

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Skip to 2:04 to bypass all the intro dialogue.

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It is weird to see the comics I bought presented today as some kind of archaelogical discovery. Issue 1 of that set sold out super fast and became very high value rapidly, back in the day. I could only get my hands on issue 2.

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And effectively rendering the original concept of copyright in this country meaningless.
Doesn’t help that the SCOTUS has legalized political bribery & ownership of legislators by oligarchs & corporations.

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