As some of you with long memories will recall, for the last few years I've had an "annual tradition" of posting an updated list of all the times when Marvel and DC characters have used the same colorful aliases for themselves. Examples have included Professor X, Magneto, Ant-Man, Huntress, Oracle, Impulse, Cat Woman/Catwoman, Spider Girl/Spider-Girl, and so forth. If two names are spelled and/or punctuated differently, but pronounced the same, I count that as a duplication.
Yesterday this year's draft went up at Character Aliases that Marvel and DC Have Both Used (5th Draft)
In researching it over the past year, I discovered that there was a Golden Age Fawcett villain called "Spider Man" who carried a web-shooting device, and a Golden Age Quality hero who (in one fight scene of one story) saw fit to introduce himself to some thugs as "The Ghost Rider." So those names have been added to my list, along with hundreds of others!
In fact, the finished product has gotten ridiculously long -- last year's draft had 653 shared aliases on it, but this time around I am listing 1139 "shared aliases" which have been used by Marvel-controlled characters and DC-controlled characters.
Since it's so long, I'm not going to post it on other forums, as I have done in the past. I'm just posting a link for the benefit of anyone who's interested in seeing just how often Marvel and DC writers (or writers at other companies whose characters later ended up under the Marvel or DC umbrellas) have swiped colorful names from somebody else!
Yesterday this year's draft went up at Character Aliases that Marvel and DC Have Both Used (5th Draft)
In researching it over the past year, I discovered that there was a Golden Age Fawcett villain called "Spider Man" who carried a web-shooting device, and a Golden Age Quality hero who (in one fight scene of one story) saw fit to introduce himself to some thugs as "The Ghost Rider." So those names have been added to my list, along with hundreds of others!
In fact, the finished product has gotten ridiculously long -- last year's draft had 653 shared aliases on it, but this time around I am listing 1139 "shared aliases" which have been used by Marvel-controlled characters and DC-controlled characters.
Since it's so long, I'm not going to post it on other forums, as I have done in the past. I'm just posting a link for the benefit of anyone who's interested in seeing just how often Marvel and DC writers (or writers at other companies whose characters later ended up under the Marvel or DC umbrellas) have swiped colorful names from somebody else!
