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DC vs Marvel Comics was a fan-based mini-series by DC Comics and Marvel. In DC vs Marvel, two "Brothers" personify the universes that comics fans know as DC and Marvel. more...

After becoming aware of the other's existence, the brothers challenge each other to a series of duels involving each universe's respective superheroes.

The matches (shown below) were written by Dan Jurgens and the outcome was determined by votes sent in by readers. Despite Marvel achieving more votes than its rival, and thus winning more matches, the series' storyline opted not to show one side victorious. The authors wisely reserved calling the winner of six of the eleven matches so they could make the outcome seem close regardless of the votes. As voters voted Marvel the winner in three of the five "open to vote" matches (DC's Superman and Batman winning their matches), this proved a prescient move. The final outcome was a 6–5 Marvel "victory". After Superman defeated the Hulk, it was revealed that the Amalgam universe would be used to settle the dispute, making the Marvel victory an ambiguous one (at least as far as the storyline went, as Marvel did win in that it received more votes). In essence, no side "won" since the fighting was stopped to make way for the new universe.

Match outcome believability was also compromised. In a match with Lobo, a being who destroys a planet and has power levels rivaling Superman's, Wolverine defeats Lobo off-panel; at the time, Wolverine's claws were not even coated in adamantium as is the case during most of his history, but were rather mere bone, making the mutant's victory even more implausible (perhaps in recognition of that, the creators chose to have him win off-panel). Ultimately, the Brothers decided to "settle things in their own way" by temporarily creating a new universe. This new universe, called the Amalgam universe, saw a merging of each company's most popular heroes into new ones: Dark Claw (Batman + Wolverine), Spider-Boy (Spider-Man + Superboy), etc. Each new hero starred in a one-shot comic book, all of which were released prior to the series' fourth and final chapter. Caught in the middle of the two worlds was an inter-dimensional traveler by the name of Access.

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