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(Image credit: Brett Booth (Marvel Comics)) DC put some fire in the bellies of readers, and some much-needed cash in the registers of stores. Again, from what I remember, the idea was a one-year term, at which point the characters go back to their home universes, possibly to be replaced by another swap of characters.' They both would've seemed more original in the opposite universe. And Martian Manhunter is pretty close to Superman, just green with a big brow. 'I felt like those were great picks because at least in terms of power sets, they're kind of redundant characters. 'The characters discussed were She-Hulk and Martian Manhunter,' he says. Ron Marz's memory is more acute on the subject. 'I think the idea was characters that we wouldn't necessarily miss, but could potentially make more valuable by generating new interest in another universe.' 'I don't know that the idea lasted more than one meeting with me or someone just throwing up on the table and saying, вЂOh, God, that is so much more work than it could possibly be worth,'' Paul Levitz recalls. And at the end of it all, the fanboy-unthinkable almost happened: Marvel and DC almost decided to permanently swap two characters.

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The issues became the top sellers the industry had seen in years and continued to pay off with Amalgam Comics, a series of one-shots that featured mashed-up Marvel/DC characters: The JLA and the X-Men became JLX, Dr. Marvel project was exactly the tonic that retailers needed. As soon as it was clear who was going to win the fan vote, bam, we'd put in the correct finished art.' 'We knew going in that fans were going to vote, and I think we were willing to concede that Wolverine was likely going to win that,' laughs Dan Jurgens, who drew the Wolverine vs. But voting by faithful fandom would (and did) tip things in Wolverine's favor. Lobo would seem to be an easy win for Lobo. That created its own odd dynamic, as in a comic universe vacuum, the planned Wolverine vs. DC character battles would happen, with fan voting determining the results. It was me, Mark, Mike Carlin, and Peter David, and we hammered out the whole framework of the thing.' 'They didn't do it at either office because the editorial staffs at each company didn't know it was happening. 'Our first meeting for the project was at Mark Gruenwald's apartment,' Marz says. The initial creative meeting was cloak-and-dagger. But I certainly didn't let any of my friends or colleagues in the business know until it was announced.' I think I told my wife, and I then told her not to tell anyone. 'I got invited to the party by Mike Carlin, who told me not to tell anyone. 'This was so hush-hush that only the highest echelons at Marvel and DC knew it was happening at first,' says Ron Marz, the writer of DC's half. The two were longtime friends who breathed life into the project - in secret early on. Carlin had started as Gruenwald's assistant at Marvel before moving to DC.

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But the soul of the project was a buddy-cop movie starring Marvel editor Mark Gruenwald and DC editor Mike Carlin. This was something the retailers could really chew on and sell a bunch of copies of.' 'In comics, we tend to be a group of people for whom the sky is always falling, and the distributor wars had created a lot of uncertainty. 'One of the reasons that this project came together in the first place was that Marvel and DC both had a genuine desire to give the market something that would really help out retailers,' Jurgens says. Superman artist Dan Jurgens was tapped as an artist on the DC side. Marvel would provide a writer and artist team, and DC would do the same. Two issues were titled simply DC versus Marvel the other two Marvel versus DC.

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