Firelion.JPG

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Non-free media information and use rationale true for Nocturnals
Description	Artwork for the cover of The Nocturnals 5 (June 1995 Malibu Comics) Art by Dan Brereton
Source	Scan made by the original uploader User:Ghost Eyes.
Article	Nocturnals
Portion used	Partial artwork for the front cover.
Low resolution?	250px size unsuitable to use for high end reproduction.
Purpose of use	Illustration of an example within the article.
Replaceable?	No free use image available. As this is a fictional, copyrighted character, a freely-licensed alternative could not reasonably be obtained.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Nocturnals//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Firelion.JPGtrue

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This image is from a comic strip, webcomic or from the cover or interior of a comic book. The copyright for this image is most likely owned by either the publisher of the comic or the writer(s) and/or artist(s) which produced the comic in question. It is believed that

the use of low-resolution images of the cover of a comic book to illustrate:
- the issue of the comic book in question;
- the periodical comic book series of which this issue is a part; or
- the copyrighted comic book character(s) or group(s) on the cover of the issue in question;
or the use of low-resolution images of a single panel from a comic strip or an interior page of a comic book to illustrate:
- the scene or storyline depicted, or
- the copyrighted character(s) or group(s) depicted on the excerpted panel in question;
where no free alternative exists or can be created,
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright for more information.
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To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
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Template:Comic cover rationale may be helpful for stating the rationale.

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	22:48, 18 December 2017		218 × 455 (24 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	11:58, 11 April 2009	No thumbnail	250 × 522 (42 KB)	J Greb (talk \| contribs)	Reduced size as per Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright#Resolution.

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