Marvel & DC Mixups

In Tales of Suspense #82, the Super-Adaptoid takes the form of a character called "Agent Axis" with Captain America stating his familiarity with the character. What's odd about this is that Agent Axis was actually a DC Comics character who debuted in Boy Commandos #1 in 1942, it seems Stan Lee mistook the relatively obscure character for having been in a Marvel comic instead. Has this ever happened before with other characters?

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  1. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    There was that one time in one of the Punisher vs the Marvel Universe comics (the one where people got turned into feral cannibals), a character got accidentally drawn as a similar-named character from a video game tie-in

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes, the artist was supposed to draw Hazmat from Avengers Academy, but appears to have looked online for reference and ended up drawing Hazmat from the game Marvel Nemesis: Rise of The Imperfects.

  2. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    An artist for Marvel once mistakenly drew boring-yuri webcomic character Spinnerette into a "Spiderverse" group pic.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah that was funny

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Boring yes, but she is the only spider based hero that uses her webs correctly, from her ass.

  3. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    This might actually have been Jack Kirby's fault for once instead of Stan Lee's, since Agent Axis was a creation of Jack Kirby in the Boy Commandos.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      It wasn't a mixup. Kirby created the character of Agent Axis and threw him in a Cap story as a self-referntial joke.

      Yeah, it would make more sense for Kirby to be responsible

  4. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah in Hickman's Avengers run the new Smasher was supposed to be the granddaughter of Dan Dare, who was never a Marvel character, because Hickman thought it would be cool to use a public domain character from the 1950s (should have been a big clue) as backstory for an otherwise extremely nobody character in his 19-member team.

    Except that Dan Dare's not only not public domain, he's even sporadically being published with new stories. So the tpb had to write in some genuinely forgotten character nobody cares about because nobody bothered to check Hickman's work. Tom Brevoort said that even calling this Smasher a Dare instead of a Kane had been an error from the start, but he would say that, he probably had to deal with lawyers for a month after the issue came out. Just dumb, dumb stuff all around.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why even bother with a public domain character when Marvel has dozens of forgotten Golden Age heroes she could have been related to?

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Who even knows, half that run was badly drawn graphs instead of story pages.

  5. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    It wasn't a mixup. Kirby created the character of Agent Axis and threw him in a Cap story as a self-referntial joke.

  6. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    DC created the Elongated Man because they weren't aware they already owned Plastic Man, or so the legend goes.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      DC had the exact opposite happen, they created Elongated Man instead of just reviving Plastic Man because they didn't realize they owned Plastic Man.

      Feel like that didn't help Elongated Man's popularity in the long run.

  7. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Oh, look. It's a shill from one of the third-world shitholes that starts bloody wars, then tries to shift blame and whines about EBUL AMERICA.

  8. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >the rest of the world:
    NATO countries believe that the United States is the noble world police, post-2020

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      I know that you aren't, shill.
      Either way get cancer, the world would be a better place without you.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        You aren't American

        Either way you're either a worthless shill or a demoralized fifth columnist, not worthy of living either way.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        I am American and it's fricking common knowledge that your country was shitting itself over the US leaving NATO because that meant they would have had to provide for their own defense and no more US navy patrolling the seas and combating piracy. So for all the homosexualry foreign governments engage in criticizing America, they still beg for us to defend them and their interests while offering nothing in return. Parasites.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          One: you're not American, turd-worlder shill.
          You're a propagandist subhuman rat making up narratives to justify "West is le bad" bullshit and excuse and deflect from actual warmongers and genociders and now switching to "divide and conquer" tactics.
          Two: You and your entire families deserve nothing but slow and painful deaths. Something I will pray for every day.

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            How are you coming to that conclusion? I said nothing of the west, I said Nato, Natoma has eastern countries as members as well you fricking moron such as Japan. There's no deflection over war mongers, your country leeches off of the US while at the same time whining about the US over some stupid shit.

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              >here's no deflection over war mongers
              Uh-huh

              [...]

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              >How are you coming to that conclusion?

              oof, somebody needs to listen to more western english dialects

  9. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >us
    Sure thing, rajeesh.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      You aren't American

  10. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    DC had the exact opposite happen, they created Elongated Man instead of just reviving Plastic Man because they didn't realize they owned Plastic Man.

  11. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    this one is more of a rip off

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      pic related was intentional by the creator

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        This is Mantis, right?

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          What? Of course not it's not Mantis, it's Englehart's OC donut steel.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          yeah

  12. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    kind of related

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ha, but that's funny gag.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Does the name Wonder Man only exist so DC couldn't potentially use it?

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        dc did sue, so marvel gave him up until dc introduced power girl, when stan said frick this and brought back simon from the dead

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Hot

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Luane Cage's boobs are not big enough for that name anyway.

  13. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Another intentional one. Kyle Rayner used to have some real strange neighbors.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      heh, nice

  14. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    In Arrow season 5, one villain of the week is an armored assassin named Scimitar, who co-showrunner Wendy Mericle referred to as a "big DC universe character". However, there is no DC character named Scimitar, because as it turns out, they accidentally adapted a Marvel character

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Is he even a big Marvel universe character?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      At the time I wondered if they meant to use Scabbard from THRILLER. Which wasn't, as far as I know, set in the DC Universe, but hey, it might have made sense.

      He would have looked pretty cool on screen, too.

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