I was just watching the 1982 Hulk cartoon on YouTube...

[HardyGirl]

...and Doc Ock was the villain. I thought he was a Spidey villain. I know that DC has the Justice League and Marvel has the Avengers, so I know groups of heroes will fight each other's foes in that way. But is crossover to a single hero common or was it a rare thing?

[Riffster]

Hulk always fought Rhino who was a Spidey villian

[The Toyroom]

Dr. Doom started out as a Fantastic Four foe but has pretty much fought all of the big guns of the Marvel U at one time or another....it's commonplace today....

[VintageMike]

It was a bit less common back then but it happened.

[Cosmicman]

They used to mix match villians (still do). Spidey has a lot of villians that have turned up in other books. Marvel and DC do that all the time. The heroes don't get jealous


My favorite is when the Riddler showed up in Green Arrow or Solomon Grundy...

[toys2cool]

yeah i think Marvel just mixed them up every once in a while

[Steeler80]

Of course one of the biggest "borrows" was when Frank Miller made The Kingpin (pretty much a Spidey villain) into a major Daredevil villain. Now, of course, he's one of DD's biggest rogues.

[goldenryan]

anybody remember the acts of venegeance story ark from the late 80's?
thor vs. juggernaut

[Mego Milk]

aw yeah crossover!

[goldenryan]

watched three episodes
-punks on wheels
-tomb of the unknown hulk
-enter she hulk
decent but not great, too bad rhino and abomination weren't on any episodes.

[samurainoir]

Of course one of the biggest "borrows" was when Frank Miller made The Kingpin (pretty much a Spidey villain) into a major Daredevil villain. Now, of course, he's one of DD's biggest rogues.

Although Punisher's also been a good Kingpin foil as well.

I know they have revisited Kingpin's origins a bit too much lately with huge confusion, but I'm very intrigued by what I've seen in the first issue of PunisherMax.

Basically they are creating an interesting premise that the Kingpin was just an urban legend that the organized crime families created until Wilson Fisk decided to take on the mantle.

[samurainoir]

...and Doc Ock was the villain. I thought he was a Spidey villain. I know that DC has the Justice League and Marvel has the Avengers, so I know groups of heroes will fight each other's foes in that way. But is crossover to a single hero common or was it a rare thing?

I think it increased to fever pitch with the crossover nuttiness of the nineties.

You even had situations where Doc Ock would beat up Hulk in the pages of Spiderman by Eric Larson...


Which Hulk writer Peter David took offense to, so a few months later, Hulk would take Doc Ock out with one finger...

[samurainoir]

Remember Doc Ock vs Superman?

[HardyGirl]

Remember Doc Ock vs Superman?
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/e...soverall17.jpg

A DC/Marvel crossover? Man, now I am confused.

[goldenryan]

I think it increased to fever pitch with the crossover nuttiness of the nineties.

You even had situations where Doc Ock would beat up Hulk in the pages of Spiderman by Eric Larson...

http://image2.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/77908253258.19.GIF

Which Hulk writer Peter David took offense to, so a few months later, Hulk would take Doc Ock out with one finger...
http://www.leaderslair.com/noexcuses/hulk2-396pic.gif

x-men had alot of crossover villians in the 80's wendigo, doom, impossible man and few mor i'm can't remember at the moment.