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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Batman has met Iron Man before.
They attend the same opium bar for one.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThey did interact but Batman had more interaction with Captain America.
I think Iron Man teamed up with Green Lantern to make an awesome spaceship but I don't recall.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI don't claim to be an expert in the current state of the comic book industry, but I highly doubt it would be able to handle the juggernaut that is a Marvel-DC merge. It wouldn't be a monopoly but it would be damn close.
However, if there's any benefit to such, it would be due to the chance to resurrect the Amalgam Universe
◊. Because this is a thing that needs to exist again.
For some reason, the Amalgam Universe has Iron Man merged with Green Lantern.
<NVM what this first part was. It wasn't true.>
Tim Drake and Jubilee fused together. After having a surprisingly adorable crossover relationship. That might've been awkward had they found out about it afterwards...
edited 24th Nov '14 10:08:37 AM by KnownUnknown
I would love to try to do so much better.
Bruce Stark of Stark Enterprises, whose family were tech moguls that specialized in weapons, killed by their own tech in the hands of the enemy on an overseas demonstration. Alfred Jarvis raised him from then on and bent on vengeance, he turned himself into a weapon to be feared, a warning to all that date raise a weapon to harm the innocent: The Iron Bat.
And the Iron Bat family including the the Crimson Warbird (Crimson Dynamo/Red Robin), Warwing (War Machine/Nightwing), and Black Rescue (Batgirl/Rescue).
I'm thinking Wonder Woman and Thor. Or as my friend and I call her "Thunder Woman".
edited 24th Nov '14 10:10:51 AM by MousaThe14
The Blog The Art...Peter Reyes. The Blue Bolas. Teenage bug-themed superhero with alien-symbiote based villains and a redheaded girl with an abusive parent in his supporting cast.
(Man, I have a type, don't I?)
edited 24th Nov '14 10:15:16 AM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.@Wack'd, Great minds think alike. my friend Nic and I thought the exact same thing. And as for the previous Blue Beetles, well the Tedd Kord and Garett Beetles will be amalgamated with Moon Knight and Daredevil.
And don't worry, we both have that type...
edited 24th Nov '14 10:19:20 AM by MousaThe14
The Blog The ArtSo awesome! Imagine the suit Tony had made for Peter
◊ and now throw this stuff into the design
◊ and tell me Peter Reyes wouldn't be the bossest thing around!
Didn't Steve Ditko create the original Blue Beetle? Because that'd work even better!
Aw. I like Dan Garret. And Dan Garrett.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.They are two different characters, one reincarnated from the other. (Also I don't think the former is in any DC continuity.)
Dan Garret was a cop who took a drug called X-9 which gave him superpowers. He died and woke up one morning as Dan Garrett with a note by his bedside telling him not to screw up this time. I mostly know him from the hilariously cheesy radio show they made about him.
Dan Garrett's story is pretty much covered by the Rogers Blue Beetle stuff. I have his vintage first issue in which he fights a giant mummy. Fun stuff.
Neither have much personality, admittedly.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

There is the whole technical stuff connected to those two companies. Marvel and DC I actually see as a minor problem because, well, it's basically only books and franchises. There is not really much of a limit how many publishing companies or franchises one can own.
Disney and Time Warner are competing with each other on so many levels (Animation, movies, Media, Themeparks), every transaction between them should be difficult.