People, people, people ....

All this talk about DC resembling Marvel starting in 1968 is really offbase, IMFAO.

It's true that DC TRIED to figure out what Marvel was doing in 1968, and it's true (as I said earlier) that Denny O'Neil tried his best to bring the Marvel sensibility to DC in GL/GA, Batman/Detective, and his brief stint on Superman.

But it didn't last, which is the point!

GL/GA was a sales failure! Denny's stint on Batman and Superman was also a commercial failure at the time, which is why he was taken off the strips. And the mainstream books continued in the same fashion as they had been following since the early sixties right up to the Implosion and beyond!

All you DC fans, Marvel was never just about squabbling among the heroes and mindless bashing between heroes and villains. It was about making the fans feel involved, but, for instance, having the footnotes signed "Stan" rather than "The Editors". It was about dialogue which could be associated with a specific character rather than being interchangeable. It was about long-lasting subplots that might actually get resolved in an unexpected way that would have a permanent impact on the way the heroes conducted their careers.

None of that happened in 1968, or 1970, or especially 1973, in the Dc universe as a matter of course. As I've mentioned, it did occasionally occur -- but only very occasionally.

Here's an example of the dialogue thing I'm taking about. The following were taken from 1968 issues of The Avengers and Justice League Of America. See if you can identify the speakers based solely on tone:

JUSTICE LEAGUE DIALOGUE:

"A tornado -- sweeping across the countryside!"

"If there's more on the way, property damage and loss of life could be great!"

"Let's get back to the League radio and check the weather reports!"

(The above were spoken by three different heroes in the same panel.)

AVENGERS DIALOGUE:

"That's all a matter of opinion, Honey! After the blast that sonic claw dished out, I may never look at another Mix-Master!"

"We may never look at ANYTHING again, my friend ... if we don't act quickly!"

"That ain't just a Zulu war chant, tall-socks! If your sheer bulk can't break us out of here, we're up the creek!"

(The above were spoken by three different heroes in the same panel.)

I still contend that DC as a whole did not begin to resemble Marvel until just before Crisis, in approx. 1984.

Doom Patrol, Metamorpho, and Fourth World notwithstanding.