BLEEDING COOL has updated their article with this letter:All credit to Diamond Comic Distributors on this one. I think someone there noticed that I was picking up on some stories that were running on their website, but weren’t fully linked from the home page yet. Such as Marvel’s marketshare in December, and lists of upcoming comic books for the next two weeks.
So it seems they laid a trap, one written to appeal to Bleeding Cool, and I fell for it hook, line and sinker. Diamond ran an article on their website outlining a fictitious crossover – one that has now disappeared and I have emails from Marvel Comics peeps asking if April has come early…
Well played, Diamond, well played. Do I detect the influence of Bob Wayne in this one at all?
You may all begin the collective mocking… now.
The original article appears below. It is based on a fabrication.
I always have mixed feelings about crossover storylines. First off they are like characters in television show that go through a dramatic event, but then it's revealed that it's all a dream and nothing you saw had any consequences. While the other part of me is excited because you always dream of what it would be like for Hulk to smash Superman, or Aquaman to go to Sizzler with Namor.
I do have a soft spot for the DC vs. Marvel crossover from April to May of 1996. That series was illustrated by the always great Dan Jurgens and Claudio Castellini. While writing duties went to Ron Marz and Peter David. The main point was that there was eleven battles, and fans could vote on five of the outcomes. To see who came out on top in that battle,
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In April, Marvel and DC will publish a new twelve issue series, Spider-Man/Batman.
In the manner of John Byrne’s World’s Finest series which showed the careers on Batman and Superman in real time over the decades.
Spider-Man/Batman will chronicle the many meeting of the pair through their respective careers as superhero crime fighters. The first issue, 48 pages long, will show the very first meeting between Peter Parker and Bruce Wayne, and the rest of the series will show the rest of the characters lives where they intersect.
Marvel and DC have published a number of crossovers since the original Spider-Man/Superman in the seventies. However, after the appointment of Joe Quesada and Brian Bendis as editor-in-chief and publisher of Marvel Comics, things soured considerably, specifically after a New York Observer interview in which Quesada DC was criticised for not fully exploiting characters such as Batman and Superman.