# Which DC comics character is the most "Marvel" and vice versa

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**Created:** [September 25, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dc-comics-character-is-the-most-marvel-and-vice-versa/699499 "2014-09-25T04:47:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dc-comics-character-is-the-most-marvel-and-vice-versa/699499/21 "2014-09-26T23:14:25Z")

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Captain America fits in well with Dc, when it comes to attitude.

The Joker would make a damn fine Spider-man villain.

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dc-comics-character-is-the-most-marvel-and-vice-versa/699499/22 "2014-09-26T23:18:23Z")

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> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#):
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> . . . The Joker would make a damn fine Spider-man villain.

I’d read that!

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dc-comics-character-is-the-most-marvel-and-vice-versa/699499/23 "2014-09-27T00:35:29Z")

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Galactus might work as a recurrent cosmic-level menace in the DC universe. Particularly, I could see him and the Guardians in an eons-long “cold war” struggle.

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**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dc-comics-character-is-the-most-marvel-and-vice-versa/699499/24 "2014-09-29T00:02:36Z")

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> [@Quimby](#):
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> Yeah Doom Patrol is the Hydrox to the X-Men’s Oreo. Came first but less popular so it looks like the rip off.

Doom Patrol first appeared June 1963. X-Men first appeared September 1963.

While it is possible, maybe even likely, that different creators shared a drink and discussed some ideas\*, given the lead time necessary (especially in 1963) to get an issue out, these ideas likely came up separately.

\*Corporate espionage is also a possibility (a leak at the printer, maybe?), but that’s moving into conspiracy theory area.

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