Marvel and DC’s Comics Will Cross Over As soon as Once more

After years of their motion pictures going up in opposition to one another, Marvel and DC Comics are coming collectively once more on the web page with a brand new crossover.

At this week’s ComicsPro retailer expo, Marvel and DC’s respective editors-in-chief C.B. Cebulski and Marie Javins collectively introduced the upcoming occasion, which they teased could be hitting someday this yr. They didn’t present any paintings or announce a inventive workforce, however in response to ComicsBeat’s Heidi MacDonald, this meetup will take the type of two one-shots, Marvel/DC and DC/Marvel.

Longtime comics followers will keep in mind how the Massive Two had been no strangers to hanging out again within the day. This primary took the type of varied one-shots within the Nineteen Seventies and 80s pitting Spider-Man in opposition to Superman or the Teen Titans vs. the X-Males. Within the late 90s there have been DC Versus Marvel and the Amalgam Age comics, whereby every writer’s respective heroes went up in opposition to one another (Batman vs. Captain America or Silver Surfer vs. Inexperienced Lantern), typically with readers voting on who’d win a selected matchup. The Amalgam books fused heroes collectively—Darkish Claw was Wolverine and Batman, Marvel Girl was Storm, and many others.—in a merged universe later canonized as Earth-9602 for Marvel and Earth-496 for DC. (Or Earth-1996 for each.)

In 2003, George Pérez and Kurt Busiek collided the worlds once more in JLA/Avengers, a comic book first accepted all the way in which again in 1979. There, the heroes of Marvel and DC fought to avoid wasting each other’s worlds as an alternative of their very own (or the mixed model of them), which led to each groups pondering the opposite are horrible at defending their dwelling dimensions. All three of those crossovers have been republished in the previous couple of years seemingly to assist set the muse for this new union.

We’ll have extra on Marvel/DC and DC/Marvel as information develops.

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