Jim Shooter: SUPERMAN First Marvel Issue!
Two years later, John Byrne would write and draw Superman, including elements of the movie he'd watched thousands of times.
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Jim Shooter: SUPERMAN First Marvel Issue!
Two years later, John Byrne would write and draw Superman, including elements of the movie he'd watched thousands of times.
At one point during the 60's it was rumored that DC was either printing or distributing Marvel. I'll ask my friend who has had a comic store for the past 33 years. He knows all about that stuff.Originally Posted by samurainoir
"When not too many people can see we're all the same
And because of all their tears,
Their eyes can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them
Isn't it a pity".
- "Isn't It A Pity"
By George Harrison
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>What if Marvel took over DC in 1984
"Crisis" would have been 24 issues, and we'd be getting TWO reboots a year; one where the universe changes, and another where everyone mopes about it between fight scenes.
Don C.
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DC/National distributed Marvel in the sixties, but limited the number of titles per month (around six?), which was why they had bimonthly and split titles like Tales of Suspense with cap and iron man.
This arguably was one of the factors that often gets overlooked when discussing Marvel's success out of the silver age. These limitations kept things tight at marvel for the most part, and the overall quality control high. Even if most folks can't agree on Stan's overall contributions... As an editor the product really was of a very high standard overall (even if it did seem a bit rough and tumble compared to DC).
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Was DC with Warner at that point? If so, would they really have wanted to part with their characters so easily? I'm surprised. I grew up with the DC characters starting with reruns of Adam West and Burt Ward and then on to Superfriends etc. The only Marvel I knew was Spider-Man and Hulk...maybe Captain America. I really got in to Marvel as I got older (around 1987-88) and got in to X-Men.
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Jim Lee would have gotten to do his redesigns 20 years earlier and they would have looked more cutting edge back then.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
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Dc has been owned by Warner brothers (and the Warner sister, Dot) since the seventies. Comics were losing money hand over fist, but licensing was their big money maker. They proposed to Marvel that they license the characters and take over publishing (just like Marvel published other licensed comics like Micronauts, Star Wars, GI Joe, and Team America).
marvel had 70% of the market share in '84 according to shooter, DC held %18
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it would have been the biggest trainwreck ever even bigger then Heroes Reborn
The other 12% was held by the booming independents like PC, First, Eclipse, Comico as they pummeled Marvel and DC with E-Man, Jon Sable, American FLAGG, Nexus, Shatter, Rocketeer, Love & Rockets, Captain Victory, Twisted Tales, Alien Worlds, Concrete, Mars, DNAgents, TMNT's?
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How could you not mention the best of em all Badger
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