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If you love comics or history, this is a fascinating look at DC and Marvel's history and how the two companies are different (and how they relate to one another.)
Last week, I dug in a little into the idea that even though they share prominent creators and have influenced each other back and forth over the course of the last 50 years, the DC and Marvel Universes have some fundamental differences in the way they’re structured. One of the things I really wanted to get across in that column was that neither one is really fundamentally better than the other, they’re just incompatible in a lot of ways, and I touched on how that results in something I call The Problem. Since that’s still pretty fresh in everybody’s mind, and since you were nice enough to set the ball right on the tee and hand me the bat, I might as well elaborate on that now. It’s actually pretty simple. To put it bluntly, The Problem is that DC wants to be Marvel, and they have for the past 50 years.DC, Marvel And ‘The Problem’
