Marvel and DC’s Comics Will Cross Over Once Again

After years of their movies going up against each other, Marvel and DC Comics are coming together again on the page with a new crossover. At this week’s ComicsPro retailer expo, Marvel and DC’s respective editors-in-chief C.B. Cebulski and Marie Javins jointly announced the upcoming event, which they teased would be hitting sometime this year. They didn’t show any artwork or announce a creative team, but according to ComicsBeat’s Heidi MacDonald, this meetup will take the form of two one-shots, Marvel/DC and DC/Marvel. Longtime comics fans will remember how the Big Two were no strangers to hanging out back in the day. This first took the form of various one-shots in the 1970s and 80s pitting Spider-Man against Superman or the Teen Titans vs. the X-Men. In the late 90s there were DC Versus Marvel and the Amalgam Age comics, wherein each publisher’s respective heroes went up against each other (Batman vs. Captain America or Silver Surfer vs. Green Lantern), sometimes with readers votin ... Read full article.