Marvel/DC Crossover Confirmed

Marvel and DC have gone greater than 20 years with out having an inter-company crossover, however that seems to be altering very quickly, as reported by The Comics Beat’s Heidi MacDonald at ComicsPro, who reported that DC Editor-in-Chief Marie Javins and Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski have revealed that the 2 corporations might be doing two intercompany crossovers later this 12 months within the type of two one-shots, DC/Marvel and Marvel/DC.

This will mark the primary new crossover between the 2 corporations for the reason that JLA/Avengers miniseries in 2003-04 by Kurt Busiek and George Pérez, which marked the top of a multi-decade historical past of DC and Marvel crossovers that started in 1976 with Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man.

Why did Marvel and DC cease doing crossovers?

After the good success of Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man, the 2 corporations started doing common crossovers within the early Nineteen Eighties, however after a dispute over the original planned JLA/Avengers in 1983, the 2 corporations stopped working collectively for the remainder of the Nineteen Eighties. In the Nineteen Nineties, nevertheless, the businesses started to work along with a pair of Batman/Punisher crossovers. These new crossover books acquired so frequent that Marvel and DC even had a FULL crossover occasion in 1996 with the superheroes from every firm preventing the heroes of the opposite firm in DC vs. Marvel (after which even “merged” the businesses collectively briefly for Amalgam Comics).

When Joe Quesada took over as Marvel Editor-in-Chief within the early 2000s, although, he famous that he most well-liked it when the businesses DIDN’T work collectively, noting, “You know, if you like DC, then you hated Marvel. If you like Marvel, then you hated DC.” However, in fact, Quesada allowed the JLA/Avengers crossover to happen a 12 months later.

Longtime DC Publisher Dan Didio was additionally in opposition to the crossovers, although, as Popverse quoted him noting a few years back:

“You’re talking to the one person that stopped every Marvel and DC crossover. I’m going to tell you why I stopped it, and I’m going to say this to everyone. My reason was, when you’re in competition with other places you have to have pride in your own work, and you have to believe in your own material. The only reason I’m crossing over is if I’m having really bad sales or there is a problem with the market. If I have to rely on other companies to prop my characters up, then I’m in bigger trouble than I thought. My second reason was, after that comes out, what do you do next? After you cross that over and you get that big moment, you’re still back in the same place you were beforehand, and now it seems less special, because you just removed so many other things away from it.”

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What modified at Marvel and DC vis a vis crossovers?

Obviously, DC has a brand new Editor-in-Chief now in Javins, who labored for Marvel for years within the Nineteen Nineties as an editor and colorist, and she or he and Celulski had already allowed the discharge of a collection of the past DC/Marvel crossovers for the first time in years, so the groundwork had already been laid for this new undertaking.

In addition, the 2 corporations labored collectively in 2022 to launch a particular version of JLA/Avengers in honor of Perez, who wished to see the e book in print earlier than he handed away from pancreatic most cancers.

So this appeared prefer it was sure to occur finally, and “eventually” is occurring this 12 months, simply in time for each corporations to even have main new movie releases in July with Superman and Fantastic Four: First Steps.

Source: Heidi MacDonald