I loved when I was reading the origin issue of the X-Men villain Sauron, and Roy Thomas, IN FREAKIN' STORY, had the character blatantly swipe his name from Lord Of The Rings.
Talk about owning it.
Interesting! I knew that Spidey was similar in part to the 1940s character Spider-Queen (both turn to crime-fighting after someone close to them is murdered; both are science-oriented and develop web-shooters, etc.) but I'd never heard of this Fox character. Thanks, I love reading stuff like this--it's fun.
How about the Squadron Supreme being a rip off of the Justice League?
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I didn't know this for a long time, but The Hellfire Club from the X-Men were basically a rip-off of a similar group from the 60's spy TV show "The Avengers".
( I'm at work so I can't be googling images of women in bustiers even if they were from old tv shows...)
And how many rip-offs of Superman has Marvel done? From Hyperion to Gladiator to Count Nefaria to the Sentry, there have been more than a few.
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Agreed. Squadron was intended as 1/2 of a bit of an in-joke between the creative teams of The JLA and The Avengers to stage the JL v. Avengers brawl that every fan wanted, and neither publisher was going to allow. It's just that Marvel invested more in their Squadron than DC did The Champions of Angor (owing largely, IMO, to the lasting impact of the late Mark Gruenwald's outstanding 1985 mini-series).
I would not include Count Nefaria because he existed for years as a regular human villain. Later on, he absorbed the powers of 3 Marvel super villains, magnified a hundred-fold. The intent was not so much to create a Super analogue as a super-super-powered villain able to take on entire teams of Avengers