I don't think they will do a good job with him.
Marvel has always complained that DC does not know how to handle superman, and that DC is just sitting on a gold mine with superman but they do not know how to exploit it.
Yet when Marvel has its hands around characters like Gladiator, Sentry and Blue Marvel, what do they do? Gladiator gets few showings and rarely if ever he saves the day, besides that he lacks the heroic character.
Sentry?.... lets not even touch that.
And the character who might have the heroic personality to be a really cool black superman is just sitting it around somewhere with out getting published.
How will Superman fit then? He will end up having the gladiator, Sentry or Blue Marvel treatment in the end.
Originally posted by Placidity
If Hulk moved to DC, he would cry in every comic because no one would job to him.
Hulk would be treated just like Grundy, The General, and Konvikt is treated (but on a better scale), he would tackle and probably run through the Justice League, especially since DC has acknowledged Hulk power of physically getting stronger and faster with rage.
Originally posted by JakeTheBank
I think he'd be treated as more of an outsider than he already is, but his initial arc introducing him to the Marvel U would be nothing less than a ginarmous arc giving love to the guy. After he was "settled in", I could see him quickly becoming a staple of the Marvel U.Marvel's never really had a single "go to guy" (It's always felt like a toss up between Mr. Fantastic, Captain America, whichever X-Men team roster they're pushing at the moment, Doctor Strange, and Thor, imo depending on the threat type and scale) but Superman would always be involved when it came to major threats, imo.
Spidey is always there. He may not be fighting Galactus but he still there
I don't think he would job or be put in a corner somewhere. KMCers can say what they like, but battle boards don't turn profit and Superman is too HUGE of a property not to respect. Marvel and DC may be friendly, but at the end of the day, you know Marvel thinks they are better and could do better.
So here you have the biggest name/franchise in comics and DC still can't seem to generate the top numbers with him. Marvel would make all the changes they deem appropriate to make Superman resonate with comic buyers and push to make him as big as possible. So, in the end we have a Superman "marvel-ized" by about 30% who would no doubt generate huge sales at least initially.
i agree with eel--marvel COULDN'T treat him with anything less than the highest regard. it's not like he's some unknown walking in. he's not sentry, or glads or any of the others. he has a history already established that is so far beyond those lame ass clones that it's not even funny. to think that marvel would treat him as they would those others speaks to how far faith in marvel in general has fallen i guess. which i find a little odd tbh. true, some of the big events haven't quite lived up to hype, but marvel is putting out some very good books imo, and in general i really like the marvel now 'relaunch'. i've personally no doubt that he would be viewed very near the same way in marvel as he is seen in dc. to do otherwise would be to change the character and more importantly would change the perception of the character, and that would be anathema to gaining him in the first place. to quote phil--he would be just fine. least imo.
I don't think the issue is that he would job or be an insignificant part of the MU, its just that, he wouldn't really add anything to their roster, and to treat him as well as DC does, the character would have to change or the MU would. 753 brings up a really interesting point with the mutant/human division. Superman becomes less relevant in that context, not that he couldn't be shoehorned into that, but like Pr said, its that compared to what he could be in the DCU, that has almost been tailor designed for him.