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Its been almost 25 years since dc comics and marvel combined for a mega crossover event, and now the american comic book fandom wants. Both marvel comics and dc comics released their solicitations for july 2018 this week. It has been reported many times, by many historians, that marvel s sales figures didnt match dc s until the beginning of the 1970s. Because marvel comics had by this time established captain marvel as a comic book trademark for their own character, created and first published in 1967, dc published their book under the name shazam. Download hundreds of comic books featuring your favorite characters including iron man, thor, captain america, spiderman, wolverine and more on your mobile device or tablet with the touch of a button. Apr 20, 2018 10 things marvel ripped off from dc and 10 that dc copied from marvel marvel and dc are the two comics giants and in the decades of competition some of their characters and stories have looked suspiciously similar.
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