Posted by CB CLERK at host68.sherwin.com on December 14, 1999 at 12:28:19:
In Reply to: Question for Comics Historians posted by I'd rather be in Red Bank on December 14, 1999 at 00:10:14:
: When Renee is yelling at Brodie in the elevator, she mentions that she doesn't care about two rival companies doing crossover characters or something like that. When and what is she talking aboot?
In the silver age of superhero comics, Marvel and DC have held the title of "rival" companies. The companies would always bring out a similar character and do it the Marvel way, or DC way. (i.e. Man-Thing for Marvel, Swamp Thing for DC) So it was a huge deal when these companies put out an "event" by pitting a DC character vs. a Marvel character. Superman vs. Spiderman was one of those one-shots, done in giant sized archive style too. The 80s was when the JLA/Avengers crossover was hoped for, and has been put on the shelf even after George Perez started pages for it. There were major egos back then because of the competition to out do each other. Thus making is a rare occasion for a crossover to happen...
Then it hit. The mid 90s just about had every crossover imaginable. Events like Marvel vs. DC, Amalgam, Deathmate, and one-shots like Daredevil/Shi, Spawn/Batman etc. I think one really bad one was Witchblade/Weasel Guy. (ooo boy!) Pretty soon, crossovers were a dime a dozen and instead of being a cool, once in a while thing, became an annoying trend.