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Monday, October 12, 2026
SPIDERBATAVERSARY!
If the internet is to be trusted, this arrived in comic book shops on this day in 1995. Still can't believe I was fortunate enough to team these two up, not once—but twice. (Once for Marvel with Mark Bagley, once for DC with Graham Nolan—and both of them knocked it out of the park.)
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Well, MArvel and DC have started publishing cross-vers again, so maybe you will get a shot at a third chance. Mayne this one actually set in the Silver Age, when Spider-MAn actually has the more harcore crimefighting life. Perhaps they even wind up in a Brooklyn malt shop where a hippie high schooler is putting quarars in teh Juke Box playing the same song over and over again.
ReplyDeleteThough admittedly, if I had to cboose, I would still...more than any otehr crossiver... want to see the one where Pete and MJ have Clark and Lois over for dinner, and they just have connversations all night. No superheroing.
One of the interesting elements about the two is that they came out only a few years apart...two I thik... and represent such differnt places for teh two characters. As such, I find most people will gravitate towards one more than the other. They will either say the first is better and the other is okay, or teh second one was where you fouind your stride.
Personally, I like them both for the different realities the represnt. for teh cahracters. But for most it is a rorschach test on how they view the cahracters. For instance, the more epic adventure take of the second seems to not as sit well with fans who think Batman should only be the urband cigilante, where as those with a distaste for Carnage as a villain will praise the scond and view teh first as part of a SPider-era they found too edgy. Or what have you.
Just an interesting look at how fans brains work.
Jack
One of the challenges of doing two of those was making them different. Repeating similar elements would have been a failure on my part. And boring, too!
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