What if DC published Marvel characters?
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BafflingBeerMan,
Posted on: 2010-11-06 09:01 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
At first I didn't get it, but then I realized it was more a parody of SuperDickery than D.C.'s general direction in the 60s.
"Ben is short for Frank."
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Those two things you described are one and the same.
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Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
At first I didn't get it, but then I realized it was more a parody of SuperDickery than D.C.'s general direction in the 60s.
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Spider-Man would be a Green Lantern.
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I am sure D.C.'s comics in the 1960s were full of out of context lines and no plot at all |
Originally Posted by DarkGob
Those two things you described are one and the same.
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"Ben is short for Frank."
-Baffling Beer-Man, The Tenacious 3: The Movie
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They're both parodies of the same thing.|
Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
At first I didn't get it, but then I realized it was more a parody of SuperDickery than D.C.'s general direction in the 60s.
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Funny stuff, good find TG.
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Probably better than when Stan Lee actually wrote comics for DC based on several of DC's top names. Anyone remember that?
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Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
Probably better than when Stan Lee actually wrote comics for DC based on several of DC's top names. Anyone remember that?
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Silverspar on Kelly Hu: A face that could melt paint off the wall *shivers*
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Their covers certainly were, if not the stories. Actually a lot of the stories were simply repeats of earlier stories under the assumption that nobody who had read them would still be reading comics.
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Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
I am sure D.C.'s comics in the 1960s were full of out of context lines and no plot at all
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"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
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Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
Probably better than when Stan Lee actually wrote comics for DC based on several of DC's top names. Anyone remember that?
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If you must. This was before I was into comics very much, and even then I knew it was pretty badly received. Here
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Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
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The one I read of that was so bad v.v I should really delete it >.>
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Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
Probably better than when Stan Lee actually wrote comics for DC based on several of DC's top names. Anyone remember that?
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Oh this is stuff Lee did when he was old, I thought maybe Lee had moved to DC back in the day. Kirby did a lot of great stuff when he went to DC, I thought maybe there was a period back then when Stan went to DC and put his then creative juices into DC comics for a while.|
Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
If you must. This was before I was into comics very much, and even then I knew it was pretty badly received. Here
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I think Stan Lee did an outstanding job on comics when he was young but he is old and out of touch with what young comic readers want.
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if you take some of the rumors at face value, he's a hack that rides on the coat tails of Jack Kirby...which is why since Kirby left Marvel Stan Lee floundered as far as creating comics and simply bolstered his name as the "creator" of many of the good things of Marvel. |
Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
Oh this is stuff Lee did when he was old, I thought maybe Lee had moved to DC back in the day. Kirby did a lot of great stuff when he went to DC, I thought maybe there was a period back then when Stan went to DC and put his then creative juices into DC comics for a while.
I think Stan Lee did an outstanding job on comics when he was young but he is old and out of touch with what young comic readers want. |
But I don't know. I don't follow Marvel much.
my dad collected comics during the late 60s and early 70s (before he had kids and had to start buying things like diapers) I learned how to read from those comics and I can tell you that Lee was writing awesome comics without Kirby being employed at Marvel.
Mutants wouldn't be hated.
They aren't for the most part (metahumans) in DC, but man......Marvel was very nasty to them.
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Was kinda the social metaphorical point they were trying to make...so yeah. |
Originally Posted by Nightphall
Mutants wouldn't be hated.
They aren't for the most part (metahumans) in DC, but man......Marvel was very nasty to them. |
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Well, most mutants could have vaporized anti-mutant mobs if they really wanted to.......XD|
Originally Posted by Furio
Was kinda the social metaphorical point they were trying to make...so yeah.
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And with Civil War and all, anyone who had powers or worse a costume got to at last feel what the mutants had been feeling all of those years.
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I love all names have the classic marvel name scheme going. Just what DC needed.
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Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
If you must. This was before I was into comics very much, and even then I knew it was pretty badly received. Here
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Those were ALL TERRIBLE!
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Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
If you must. This was before I was into comics very much, and even then I knew it was pretty badly received. Here
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That's why I hated the No More Mutants stuff from Marvel when I read about it. To me, with their numbers, they are no more than metahumans. People should stop being afraid of a species going extinct. Then they throw the story arc hinted back in the 80's about all super heroes being registered.|
Originally Posted by Nightphall
Well, most mutants could have vaporized anti-mutant mobs if they really wanted to.......XD
And with Civil War and all, anyone who had powers or worse a costume got to at last feel what the mutants had been feeling all of those years. "Magneto Was Right!" |
Meh.
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I feel though that Marvel's covers had pretty much the same M.O. Maybe not when the character of the comic is first being introduced, but later in their lives. I know I went through some of my childhood comics and was amazed about how the covers had very little to do with what is inside.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
Their covers certainly were, if not the stories.
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"Ben is short for Frank."
-Baffling Beer-Man, The Tenacious 3: The Movie
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There were a lot of Marvel covers with characters that appear in the comic in some sort of big dramatic scene/setting that is not actually in the issue. Very often the dialogue was some piece of absurdity that did not accurately reflect the events of the issue. So not that different from DC of the same era.
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Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
I feel though that Marvel's covers had pretty much the same M.O. Maybe not when the character of the comic is first being introduced, but later in their lives. I know I went through some of my childhood comics and was amazed about how the covers had very little to do with what is inside.
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Originally Posted by BrandX
Those were ALL TERRIBLE!
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Granted, Stan does love alliteration when coming up with his characters' real names, but at least that name's (usually) hidden from the public. Who at DC is responsible for the horde of "Power Description" + "Gender Pronoun" heroes?
They're all horrible, but "Matter-Eater Lad"? Really? Bad enough it's a lame power, they couldn't hit up a thesaurus and give him a halfway decent name?
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Megadeth--Lvl 50+3 Necro/DM/Soul MM, Virtue
Veriandros--Lvl 50+3 Crab Soldier, Virtue
"So come and get me! I'll be waiting for ye, with a whiff of the old brimstone. I'm a grim bloody fable, with an unhappy bloody end!" Demoman, TF2
Just to necro this thread, here's the same cartoonist's imaginings of "What if DC published 1970's Marvel characters in the 1960's?"
"What if DC published Marvel characters in the 1960's?" asks blogger-artist Kerry Callen. Had Stan Lee et al. decided that instead of striking out in an original direction, they'd rip off their distinguished competition, the results might be something like this:
Honestly, they're better than D.C.-Marvel's collaborative "Amalgam Universe" project. That way lies madness...