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Fair use rationale[edit]

Non-free media information and use rationale true for Gunsmoke Western
Description	Cover, Gunsmoke Western #57 (March 1960). Marvel Comics. Cover art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
Source	http://www.comics.org/issue/15553/cover/4/
Article	Gunsmoke Western
Portion used	Full front cover as published.
Low resolution?	low; unsuitable to use for high end reproduction.
Purpose of use	For identification purposes in conjunction with discussion of the topic of the article.
Replaceable?	No free use image available. As these are fictional, copyrighted characters and a copyrighted publication, a freely-licensed alternative could not reasonably be obtained.
Other information	Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: It illustrates an educational article about the comic book series from which the cover illustration was taken. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic. The image is from an encyclopedically significant issue in that it is the only issue to depict all three of its continuing-feature stars. Every other issue contains only two such stars, and no other issue depicts all three on the cover. Comic books are a visual medium, and it is necessary for a comprehensive understanding of the article topic to depict the fictional characters it regularly featured The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the comic book. It is a low-resolution image. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Gunsmoke Western//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gunsmoke-Western-57-March1960.jpgtrue

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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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current	06:35, 16 December 2017		258 × 385 (38 KB)	Theo's Little Bot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	17:49, 4 August 2011	No thumbnail	298 × 445 (142 KB)	Tenebrae (talk \| contribs)	== Fair use rationale == {{Non-free media rationale <!-- {{Non-free image data --> \| Description = Cover, ''Gunsmoke Western'' #57 (March 1960). Marvel Comics. Cover art by {{Jack Kirby]] and Dick Ayers. \| Source = http://www.

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