Inspired in the thread Would the Charlton Action Heroes have been better of at Marvel? from Riv86672 in the Marvel board.

Context:

In the 90s, after the birth of Image comics, several editorial tried to create their own universe to compite against marvel and DC. Among these newcomer, there was Malibu comics, who created the contained line under the banner of the Ultraverse. The Ultraverse rose and and fell quickly in attention and impact but it was big enough to attract the attention of DC. DC had showed interest in buying the Ultraverse (nothing new, they had buying another companies before and integrating their characters), but Marvel, afraid of how big DC would grow with the input of sales from the ultraverse, bought out Malibu in November 1994. After that, Marvel pushed the characters for a time, before progressively dismatled the Ultraverse titles and send the characters to a vault. After the publication of Ultraverse: future Shock, the only mention to Ultraverse characters and concepts has been the use of the title "Exiles" for a x-men spin-off series and a tangential/debatable adaptation cameo of one character in Thor:Ragnarok.

The motives to the reluctance of Marvel to use the characters again is a mystery. Either for problems of property rights with the authors; the dark circunstances about one of these authors, than would be motive of scrutiny; or even, simple disinterest. After all, Marvel have a lot of properties to explote in their own vault and have no need of them.

So, if you know who the characters of the Ultraverse were, I ask you: would they had been trated better in DC? Would have they had a better luck? Would they still be around, even under minimal roles? Would have they reach the same level of recognization as Captain Atom, Blue Bettle, Shazam (Captain Marvel, dammit!), Plastic man, Freedom Fighters, who also came from other editorials before being integrated in DC? Or would they be postergated as the Milestone and Wildstorm characters before being reused again?

I want your opinions.