Originally Posted by
Lee Stone
It wouldn't be a monopoly.
They would have to buy Image, Dark Horse, Dynamite and IDW also.
Not to mention King Features Syndicate and Condé Nast.
However, there's this:
1. If DC was to be considered non-profitable as a comic publisher, DC would not be sold. It would just trimmed down to the Trinity. Every other character they own would go into limbo.
Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman would become the modern day equivalent of the pulp heroes migrating out of the pulps, with the three of them being used more in licensing and tv/film/games and less in comics.
2. If, by some weird chance, Marvel did buy DC, we still would only see the Trinity. They would be given the Angela treatment and grafted into the Marvel Universe as if they were always there, while the rest of the DC Universe would join Crossgen and Ultraverse in Marvel's halls of eternal limbo.
In both scenarios, only the Trinity survive.
If you're a fan of any other DC character, oh well.