In my comments on 1982 Marvel and DC’s gift is the weird X-Men and the new Teen Titans #1And, maybe in my series, maybe looking back at the history of DC/Marvel Crossovers elsewhere, I talk about how publishers stop working on crossover comics after publishing the book.
DC and Marvel will conduct another 12 years of crossovers across roles, and they will not be restored until 1994. Batman/Punisher: Lake of Fire #1.
From the outside, it doesn’t seem like a lot of sense to pause crossover. The first four are pretty solid comics. Several of them are even great comics. They seem to sell like Gangbusters, and fans who have read them and make their pros seem to love the relatively rare opportunity to see the characters of rival publishers interact.
Whatever happens, it seems to focus on the proposed fifth crossover, a pairing of George Perez’s Justice League and the Avengers. I did some googling and found at least one player’s version of the event to understand what’s going on in his blog, but I didn’t comment and even shared a link here that didn’t want to get involved in the 40-year-old controversy when I was in kindergarten occur.
Well, the guy involved this week.
That would be the oral history of the project in late KC Carlson, who was obviously asked to write a 2004 work. JLA/Avengers Cross-border.
Carlson’s work ended up not appearing in the series, and once you read it you’ll see why: No one looks particularly good. The book is not attracted by a series of wrong decisions, poor communication, some unprofessional behavior and many difficult feelings, rather than one actor or another being the villain in the story. Moreover, the damage caused is obviously enough to stop DC and Marvel from working with each other for more than a decade.
Carlson’s work ended up not JLA/Avengers Book, Beat Finally published it in two articles in 2022. You can read the first post here.
If you read DC/Marvel crossover like I did recently, this seems to be a very valuable part of the behind-the-scenes story, which not only explains the situation with that particular crossover, but also answers the questions related. Why did the two publishers stop working together for so long? (also? Beat The post is made by some great Perez art illustrations originally made for crossovers, such as the images on this post. )
Now, if only someone would do all the necessary interviews to write an article explaining why DC and Marvel stopped publishing crossover again after the 2000s Batman/Darkward: King of New Yorkand then why they temporarily resumed their collaboration long enough to final publication JLA/Avengers…
