Have DC and Marvel comics "dealt with" Sept 11?

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I was hoping someone current with DC and Marvel comics could tell me whether or not Sept 11 has been mentioned, or even maybe incorporated into story lines in the DC and Marvel universes.

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Yes. I don’t follow DC closely, but Marvel has. They released a poster book already, and this week’s Amazing Spider-Man #36 by J. Michael Straczynski and John Romita Jr. will be all about Spider-Man’s reaction.

http://www.comicscontinuum.com:8080/stories/0111/09/index.htm

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Thanks VeraGemini, good link. I thought Spider-Man lived in New York, so it should have more impact on him than Superman.

Anyone have info on DC?

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The DC MBs have been abuzz with word that the forthcoming story arc of the Authority, published under the Wildstorm imprint, is being canned because of its similiarity or inappropriateness to 11 Sept. Within continuity, however, I don’t think they’ve anything planned: the recent “Our Worlds at War” cross-over series apparently had smoking buildings in Metropolis resembling the WTC, which I seem to recall they copped some flak over.

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Yes, the issue with the smoking twin towers hit the stands on Sept. 12. (Which means it was printed several days earlier.) Sure was creepy though.

–Cliffy

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Wonder if today’s plane crash will also be echoed, since Spider-Man and his Autn May live in Queens…

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For Marvel continuity especially, it is an issue to deal with: the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Daredevil and Spider Man are all based in New York. For DC, all I know of are the Titans. The big sellers for DC, Batman and Superman, have their own imaginary cities (Gotham and Metropolis respectively), and I understand that the Justice League have a base on the moon.

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Off the top of my head, the present-day JSA and the current pretender to Green Lantern are both based in NYC, along with several also-rans.

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Ha! Not a Kyle Rayner fan, huh?

Be interesting if it turns up in Green Lantern or JSA, then.

It’d be hard to do that with any sensitivity though. When the Kursk submarine went down, fans were talking about how Superman could have saved it (if he was real, of course, something oft forgotten by die-hards :)) - but how can you tie the Kursk into a Superman story, other than to say he was off-planet or something equally lame?