>>120217600I can think of one case.
AC comics revived a public domain character, Yankee Girl.
She's been a rich socialite in the '40s, spent decades in suspended animation, and awoke to find her fortune gone.
Being insanely sexy (and wearing even less than most superheroines), she took a job as spokesmodel to pay the bills -- only to find she'd signed her name away and couldn't use it herself.
Eventually, a wealthy admirer bought the rights back and restored them to her.
