80 Marvel vs DC copycats with their appearance Dates

Update -White Dragon (Marvel 1978), White Dragon (DC 1987) -Scarlet Scarab (Marvel 1977) , Scarlet Scarab (DC 2009) -Tarantula (Marvel 1974), Tarantula (DC October 1941), Spider-Man (Marvel 1962), Spider Man (DC Whiz Comics 1947), Black Spider DC 1976, (The Spider, Master of Men 1933) -Wonder Man (Marvel 1964), Wonder Man (DC 1963) - fire lord Marvel 1974, Human Torch 1939, firebrand DC 1941, Firestorm DC 1978 , Human Flame DC 1959 -Deadpool (Wade Wilson), Deathstroke (Slade Wilson), Red tool (DC 2013) -Time Commander 1965 Hourman first appeared in 1940 -Yggardis, the Living Planet 1960 -white tiger red lion -Mr. Freeze 1959 -Lightning Lad (1958 -Power Man (Marvel 1972 ), Power Girl (DC 1976) -The Shark(October 1963) -Robotman (DC 1942), Human Torch 1939, (PERCY 1911: COMICS' FIRST ROBOT) -Green Lantern Corps first appearance was in 1959 -The Herald (DC) and Cloak (Marvel) -Lord Pumpkin (Marvel 1993), Mervyn Pumpkinhead (DC 1989) -Fantastic 4 ( 1961), Challengers of the Unknown (DC 1957) - Marvel have: Captain Marvel, Marvel Boy, Marvel Girl, Marvel Man (Miracle Man). DC have: Superman, Supergirl, Superboy, Superwoman , Superdog, Wonder Woman, Wonder Man, Wonder Boy, Wonder Girl

DC: Starfire Marvel: Firestar Me: Now that's just lazy

"All of these are coincidental!" Starfire vs Firestar "....Wow..."

Swamp Thing and Man Thing were both inspired by The Heap (1942). The fact that they both debuted in 1971 isn't a coincidence; that's when the Comics Code Association relaxed the restrictions against horror comics.

The important thing to take away is that these two have been helping each other build up a monopoly over the superhero comic franchise and nobody can defy these two.

Marvel & DC are just two cool kids saying the same jokes as each other but getting recognized for it later than the other

"Hey did that one character you make breathe air" "Yeah." "Mine did it a few years earlier, I'll see you in court."

Firestorm was actually DC's attempt to cash in on Spider-Man's success by having him be also a teenager who gained powers from a radioactive accident

What a lot of people don’t know and I didn’t know this myself at first but it’s really understandable once you figure out why they’re so many similar if not almost one for one copycats of characters. The first reason is that a lot and I mean a lot of these artists were roommates. For example if I’m not mistaken I think it was Man-Thing and Swamp Thing creators were roommates at the time. And again(if I’m not mistaken) Marvel and DC comics were literally right down the street from each other at one point and time and a lot of the artist and creators would all live together and talk about their projects with each other. Hell, and some said that they would actually purposely make similar characters to see who could I guess make a better character or see who’s character people would like the most. So it was more of a friendly rivalry and it would make creators work harder because they would want to one up their friends so they could have the bragging rights. A second reason was that a lot creators would leave one company and go to the other after so long but couldn’t take their creations they worked so hard on so they’d for the most part just create a character that was just the same as their last character. Like the Phantom Stranger and the Phantom Reporter, now idk if the same person or not created both I’m just using these two as an example. Say that the creator of the Phantom reporter left Marvel and went to DC but people really loved his character so he’d just create pretty much the same character and since comics were made for little boys they usually wouldn’t pay attention that much to it. But if they did they probably just thought he changed some how since his name, and appearance were so close that they couldn’t be different people. And lastly, idk how true this is but I heard that sometimes people would spy for another comic company and then go to the other with information on appearance, powers etc etc and then get paid for said information. Hell, I’ve even heard that some of those quote on quote “spies” were actual employees of the rival comics company, hell some creators themselves from what I had heard lol. But without those types of things going on we wouldn’t have some of the amazing characters that we have now! So to those who did what they did thank you, because without that the industry wouldn’t have been what it is today🙌🏾 lol.

I at least appreciate how 75% of these are only copycats at first glance and the actual characters are incredibly different

I know, I suck Marvel: Hey can I copy your homework? DC: I was about to ask you the same question? Marvel: Oh...

Fun Fact! Lord Havok, Gorgon, Dr Diehard and Dreamslayer were intended to be parodies of Dr Doom, Dr Octopus, Magneto and Dormammu respectively Theyre even from a parallel Earth from the main DC Earth were they fight their own versions of Marvel's heroes!

Everyone: firestar, stare fire, now that's just lazy Me: scarecrow, scarecrow

Deadpool literally a parody of Deathstroke Wade Wilson and Slade Wilson

It's interesting how much it varies when the more popular one came first or second. Makes me think this is actually a good practice and helps the better version of the idea come out on top.

Thx for straight to the point

DC : * Creates Circe * Marvel : "imma call it Enchantress" DC : "i like that." * creates Enchantress * Marvel : Creates Circe in the Eternals

Firestar and Starfire they really weren't trying with the names

I must say some great comparisons, did not know a lot of this before hand.

Nice job to upload this cause as a kid I thought they were all the same 👍👍👍👍🤟