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Marvel just publishing DC was discussed once before, way back in the day. Although I've never read it myself, apparently Jim Shooter talks about it somewhere.
It didn't happen then, supposedly because a lot of people were leery about having the biggest comic properties under one roof. I'm guessing the same thing would be true today.
Marvel (as a comics publisher) has been very focused on properties and characters which they controlled completely. Prior to the Fox purchase, they tanked Fantastic Four and X-Men comics because the film rights to those were controlled by Fox. Once the deal to acquire Fox was closed, they brought those properties back in the comics.
I find it hard to believe that Marvel would publish DC titles only for the comic properties. If there was some joint film production deal, maybe. But even then, they would be profit sharing. They have a clear motivation for trying to hang on to something like Spiderman. Working with DC IP is a much more complicated project.
Would be an interesting turn of events, as I believe DC handled distribution for Marvel way back in the day.
However, I'd take anything Ethan van Scriver says with a grain of salt.
Ethan Van Scriver is a huge dick. I met him once. I don't trust his opinions on much of anything.
Also I don't think DC is going to go under...if it does, I don't see AT&T selling the rights to publish to Marvel...Or Disney.
Maybe DC needs to re-examine how comics are published in general. At the moment it is a nitch market concentrated in nitch stores
Grey,
Maybe but I also think the storylines they've done in the past...2 years if not more have been...haphazard at best. (Looks at you Heroes in Crisis!)
Luis,
Firstly I doubt this will happen. While Disney's stock has dropped, it's not the ONLY company out there facing shortages due to the global pandemic. So while AT&T MIGHT be interesting...I'm not sure Disney itself is at this point. Especially since they've just gotten Disney+ up and running.
As for changing super heroes...sure I could see that. But some times you just want guys to have God mode.
It is a different scale. I mean that's why I'm more of Thor guy/cosmic guy than I am a Spider-man/Daredevil guy.
No new comics for a while. Diamond Comics Distributors closed its doors to all new product today, for the foreseeable future.
Transcontinental, printers for DC, Dark Horse, Boom!, IDW, Image, Dynamite and others shut down today for at least three weeks.
Incredibly stupid of me, but somehow I didn't anticipate this.
I'm fine with staying home, but if I can't get new comics ...
The weekly run to my FLGS was a part of my routine for decades, and before that a weekly run to the spinning rack at 7-11, but for the last couple of years I've traded that for one monthly shipment from an online retailer in my state. They upload the Diamond monthly solicitation near the end of each month, their website tracks my past purchases to pre-load likely buys for the new month, I get each issue bagged and boarded, 35% off the retail price, and a flat $5/month shipping fee.
Up through next week. Yesterday they sent all subscribers a notice of how we'd be impacted by the pandemic. I'm following the virus spread, mostly through the John Hopkins web site* and keeping up with local responses, but until I'd received the notice yesterday it had just never connected something as trivial as comics -- I know, heresy; I've been a comics reader for over 50 years -- with something as serious as the pandemic.
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*Beware of imitators. At least one site that looks 99.99% like the real one infects the user with the AZORult trojan.
Safe: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Not safe: Corona-Virus-Map.com
Well I was hopeful we'd get more comics out before the end of April...at least that's just me.
I hope not...I'd prefer DC remain in DC hands.
However I would be down for another big crossover with less 90's in it.
Well less shoulder pads and huge chests, sure.
Add mullets don't forget less mullets!
Newsarama had an article recently where they were talking about this idea way back when where the two companies would have traded a character at the end of one of those crossover events. The basic idea was that after the event was over 1 character from each company would have been left behind in the other universe. They couldn't do it in the end because the legal hoops were just to much. From what the article said it would have been She-hulk to DC and Martian Manhunter to Marvel.
If you could have just 1 character traded to each universe who would you pick?
That's easy. I'd trade Deadpool to the DC in exchange for Lobo.
That's not bad Thomas. You want to really rile things up change out Batman with Black panther. Mostly cause I like to see how T'challa would deal with Batman's rogue gallery.
a short crossover that would be cool to see would be punisher and batman. I feel like when they swap back batman is going to have a lot of free time.
Well technically they did have a kind of Punisher style Batman for a bit...but Grim Knight was more gadgets and traps than straight out murder people.
Well technically they did have a kind of Punisher style Batman for a bit...but Grim Knight was more gadgets and traps than straight out murder people.
There was 2 of them first one was Punisher and Az-bat and the 2nd one was Punisher and real Batman.
Grey,
Well that too. But I was thinking about how some might see Grim Knight as Punisher Batman.
It's an intriguing thought experiment...but unlikely to happen in my view. More likely, Image might publish DC comics if DC were to go under.
Image has the capital to pick up that many licenses from Warners? That sounds unlikely.
Maybe it's my pipe dream, dirtypool. That and I keep seeing more Image properties on my tube and big screen.
Neither scenario is likely, I just wasn’t sure what made it “more likely” that Image would publish DC titles if they went under than Disney owned Marvel.
Understood. Like I said, just a random thought.