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Rip off characters...

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lizards2

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The only ones I can remember off hand are Wonder Warthog, Fabulous Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, and the Cockroach Army.

 

I see what you did there.

I pulled a Cal. Everyone else is wrong. :cool:
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Im pretty sure Swamp Thing was first...

 

The Heap was first :sumo:

 

 

They were close...2 months apart

 

Man-Thing...Savage Tales #1 (May 1971)

 

Swamp Thing...House of Secrets #92 (July 1971)

If Wikipedia is to be believed Man thing was created long before

 

As Thomas recalled in 2002:

 

Stan Lee called me in; it would've been late '70 or early '71. [...] He had a couple of sentences or so for the concept — I think it was mainly the notion of a guy working on some experimental drug or something for the government, his being accosted by spies, and getting fused with the swamp so that he becomes this creature. The creature itself sounds a lot like the Heap, but neither of us mentioned that character at the time.... I didn't care much for the name 'Man-Thing', because we already had the Thing [of the superhero team the Fantastic Four], and I thought it would be confusing to also have another one called Man-Thing.

 

Thomas worked out a detailed plot and gave it to Gerry Conway to -script. Thomas and Conway are credited as writers, with Gray Morrow as artist. A second story, written by Len Wein and drawn by Neal Adams, was prepared at that time, but, upon Savage Tales' cancellation after that single issue, "took a year or two to see print", according to Thomas. That occurred in Astonishing Tales #12 (June 1972), in which the seven-page story was integrated in its entirety within the 21-page feature "Ka-Zar", starring Marvel's jungle-lord hero. This black-and-white interlude (with yellow highlighting) segued to Man-Thing's introduction to color comics as Ka-Zar's antagonist-turned-ally in this and the following issue (both written by Thomas, with the first penciled by John Buscema and the second by Buscema and Rich Buckler).

 

The Wein-written Man-Thing story appeared in-between Wein's first and second version of his DC Comics character Swamp Thing. Wein was Conway's roommate at the time, and as Thomas recalled in 2008,

 

Gerry and I thought that, unconsciously, the origin in Swamp Thing #1 was a bit too similar to the origin of Man-Thing a year-and-a-half earlier. There was vague talk at the time around Marvel of legal action, but it was never really pursued. I don't know if any letters even changed hands between Marvel and DC. [...] We weren't happy with the situation over the Swamp Thing #1 origin, but we figured it was an accident. Gerry was rooming with Len at the time and tried to talk him into changing the Swamp Thing's origin. Len didn't see the similarities, so he went ahead with what he was going to do. The two characters verged off after that origin, so it didn't make much difference, anyway

 

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One of the earliest superheroes, Amazing Man, is the original inspiration for two well-known modern characters.

 

Amazing Man inspired Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, who in turn inspired Ozymandias.

 

Amazing Man is also the inspiration for Iron Fist.

 

Another interesting Amazing Man factoid: he was the first super-hero to debut in his own title (Amazing Man #5).

 

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AGGIEZ

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Im pretty sure Swamp Thing was first...

 

The Heap was first :sumo:

 

 

They were close...2 months apart

 

Man-Thing...Savage Tales #1 (May 1971)

 

Swamp Thing...House of Secrets #92 (July 1971)

Gerry and I thought that, unconsciously, the origin in Swamp Thing #1 was a bit too similar to the origin of Man-Thing a year-and-a-half earlier. There was vague talk at the time around Marvel of legal action, but it was never really pursued. I don't know if any letters even changed hands between Marvel and DC. [...]

 

 

So the "year-and-a-half" is referring to the date the characters were actually conceived, not actually published...interesting

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AGGIEZ

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Can't believe nobody has mentioned this

 

Timber Wolf - Wolverine - totally.

 

 

 

PFFT....they don't look ANYTHING alike...and their powers are COMPLETELY different.... meh

 

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Abilities - Superhuman strength, speed and agility, as well as claws, enhanced senses, and healing

 

 

Oh wait... hm

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Maccai3

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Im pretty sure Swamp Thing was first...

 

The Heap was first :sumo:

 

 

They were close...2 months apart

 

Man-Thing...Savage Tales #1 (May 1971)

 

Swamp Thing...House of Secrets #92 (July 1971)

Gerry and I thought that, unconsciously, the origin in Swamp Thing #1 was a bit too similar to the origin of Man-Thing a year-and-a-half earlier. There was vague talk at the time around Marvel of legal action, but it was never really pursued. I don't know if any letters even changed hands between Marvel and DC. [...]

 

 

So the "year-and-a-half" is referring to the date the characters were actually conceived, not actually published...interesting

 

so Marvel did it first, DC did it right

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