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    Default The Suspicious Coincidences of The Big Two

    I've been reading both Marvel and DC's Comics from 1961, month by month. It's been interesting. Looking at styles and just the way the medium evolved over time. Perhaps most interesting to me are some of the coincidences I see along the way.

    Case in point: in 1987 DC relaunched the old Charlton character Captain Atom, and Marvel created a villain for Iron Man called the Ghost. The coincidence? The original Captain Atom's greatest adversary was a character called The Ghost. Although there were several differences between the two, they had similar abilities and both were basically saboteurs.

    Does anybody on here know anything about the backstory on this?

    What's your favorite coincidence?

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    Doom Patrol/X-Men

    The 1993 Annuals
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    Swamp thing and Man Thing so close debuts.

    If thebig two usually shares artists and pencillers,who talk among themselves, coincidences usually happens.

    That is, if there are coincidences.
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    Fair point. See The Heap

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thor-Ul View Post
    Swamp thing and Man Thing so close debuts.

    If thebig two usually shares artists and pencillers,who talk among themselves, coincidences usually happens.

    That is, if there are coincidences.
    Not only where their debuts close, but the writers were roommates at the time.

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    Captain America and Batman both thought dead but really being unstuck in time is my favorite one in part because I love both stories and in part because they're superficially similar but all the details are very different.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bob/.schoonover View Post
    Captain America and Batman both thought dead but really being unstuck in time is my favorite one in part because I love both stories and in part because they're superficially similar but all the details are very different.
    Wow. Great Catch!

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