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The Golden Age of Marvel/DC Cross-Overs

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  • The Toyroom
    The Packaging King
    • Dec 31, 2004
    • 16653

    #16
    Originally posted by Earth 2 Chris
    The eventual Busiek/Perez version may be the last truly fun comic project published by the big two before both seemed to get mired in the super-mega-event-blood-and-gore-reboot era.
    Oh yeah I think those days are gone.... JLA/Avengers was a last hurrah. Even if Marvel and DC did get together again for cross-overs, the characters are not the same anymore. The Marvel ones are basically the same, but the DC guys are not the same incarnations...
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    • VintageMike
      Permanent Member
      • Dec 16, 2004
      • 3385

      #17
      Originally posted by The Toyroom
      I don't think either company will ever be this fun again....
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      Probably not, but it only inspires me to add/broaden the horizons of my back issue collection. I'm going for runs of stuff I never would have in the past due to wanting more of the fun 70's/early 80's vibe.

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      • enyawd72
        Maker of Monsters!
        • Oct 1, 2009
        • 7904

        #18
        That is so weird...I just picked up that Superman/Spiderman with the painted cover Friday afternoon at my local shop. They had just gotten it in.

        I haven't even read it yet.

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        • jquest
          Veteran Member
          • Oct 19, 2007
          • 355

          #19
          Looks like DC just came out with a Omnibus of the Marvel/DC crossovers Here's a link

          Amazon.com: DC/Marvel Crossover Omnibus Vol. 1 (9781401232306): Various: Books

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          • clemso
            Talkative Member
            • Aug 8, 2001
            • 6189

            #20
            This is the best Marvel/DC cross over I ever read. JLA 103 (1972). Just because it wasn't advertised as such and well, can you imagine the excitement of a then young reader to see Marvel heroes in a DC comic book.




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            • Orlock
              Megohead Superdad
              • Feb 15, 2010
              • 299

              #21
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              • Bruce Banner
                HULK SMASH!
                • Apr 3, 2010
                • 4335

                #22
                I love the old Marvel DC crossovers. I've collected the classic ones in every format they were published in... treasury edition, paperback, etc.

                It is a great shame that the original JLA/Avengers crossover never happened. That would have been so cool.

                There were also plans for a second X-Men/Teen Titans book, but plans for that were scrapped, too.

                One of my favourite newer crossovers is the Superman/Fantastic Four book. It was originally published in treasury edition sized format, like the classic ones.

                The Batman/Captain America crossover by John Byrne is also a great book.


                Most of the Marvel/DC crossovers are available in the various "Crossover Classics" collections, voulmes I to IV. They've been out for a few years now.
                However, they don't contain all the crossovers.

                Last edited by Bruce Banner; Feb 26, '12, 4:57 AM.
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                • thunderbolt
                  Hi Ernie!!!
                  • Feb 15, 2004
                  • 34211

                  #23
                  Byrne's Darkseid/Galactus crossover was a good one, too.
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                  • Earth 2 Chris
                    Verbose Member
                    • Mar 7, 2004
                    • 32977

                    #24
                    The Marvel ones are basically the same, but the DC guys are not the same incarnations...
                    While there has been no official cosmic reset of the MU, after Civil War, House of M, JMS' Spider-Man stuff, etc, I can't really think of them as the same characters either.

                    There were also plans for a second X-Men/Teen Titans book, but plans for that were scrapped, too.
                    Yup, and that one was to be handled by Wolfman and Perez, with the villains being Brother Blood and the Hellfire Club. According to Marv, it never got beyond the planning stages, thanks to Shooter putting an end to the crossovers.

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                    • The Toyroom
                      The Packaging King
                      • Dec 31, 2004
                      • 16653

                      #25
                      Freakin' Jim Shooter
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                      • madmarva
                        Talkative Member
                        • Jul 7, 2007
                        • 6445

                        #26
                        Marvel was so dominating the landscape at that time that Shooter didn't want Marvel promoting DC's characters and creators. It would have been like putting a Whopper in a Happy Meal.

                        It sucks, but it was probably smart business.

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                        • The Toyroom
                          The Packaging King
                          • Dec 31, 2004
                          • 16653

                          #27
                          The first official Marvel/DC collaboration:

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                          • The Toyroom
                            The Packaging King
                            • Dec 31, 2004
                            • 16653

                            #28
                            Originally posted by thunderbolt
                            Byrne's Darkseid/Galactus crossover was a good one, too.
                            That is one of the better modern ones:

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                            • Figuremod73
                              That 80's guy
                              • Jul 27, 2011
                              • 3017

                              #29
                              ^^ One of Byrnes best.
                              Im glad most of the dc/marvels are collected. I'll be headed to the comicshop in the coming week.

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                              • The Toyroom
                                The Packaging King
                                • Dec 31, 2004
                                • 16653

                                #30
                                I did like the Amalgam mash-ups that they did...Some of the better ones IMO:











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