Marvel's word play on Superman???

Hopefully this won't get closed before a few people can comment on it.

While reading a Fantastic Four Annual, I noticed that during a Molecule Man/Beyonder battle, there seemed to be a little bit of word play on Superman's origin.

Here's the scan(s):

Here's a close-up on the actual Quote.

"The molten core of the planet Cryptun, is spontaneously transformed into anti-matter, destroying all but one of it's bipedal denizens."

Just wondering what your thoughts were. 😕

In the old Man-Thing books, or possibly in Adventures into Fear, there is a character named Wundarr or something similar.

He can to Earth in EXACTLY the same circumstances as Supes, only the nice old couple that happened to see his ship crash decide against picking him up because it would be dangerous ect...

Kinda cool story, Wundarr confuses Man-Thing with his mother, and it gets weirder from there

Marvel steals from people all the time 😛

somtimes its the other way around, like how DC stole the civil war idea for their current run of Uncle Sam and his feedom fighters, and how they stole OMAC from operation: zero tolerance. also remember that just about every writer who is hot right now, or at point, at some interval in his career, worked for both companies, and even a few Indie, so thier ideas tend to get recycled

Originally posted by manjaro
somtimes its the other way around, like how DC stole the civil war idea for their current run of Uncle Sam and his feedom fighters, and how they stole OMAC from operation: zero tolerance. also remember that just about every writer who is hot right now, or at point, at some interval in his career, worked for both companies, and even a few Indie, so thier ideas tend to get recycled

Completely

sometimes it works nicely, look at the Squadron Supreme, they are certainly more than just clones of the JLA at this point.

Its certainly not a negative phenomena, though some things tend to get a little tired the umpteenth time you read it.

Originally posted by manjaro
somtimes its the other way around, like how DC stole the civil war idea for their current run of Uncle Sam and his feedom fighters, and how they stole OMAC from operation: zero tolerance. also remember that just about every writer who is hot right now, or at point, at some interval in his career, worked for both companies, and even a few Indie, so thier ideas tend to get recycled

The Planetary series (from the Wild storm universe) is ripe with this type of thing. In fact there are entire issues in which Ellis puts weird spins on well renowned stories and characters. Its happens all the time, for example Grifter recently stating 'That he is the best at what he does', and spawn of Ego 'conveniently' being found by a couple in Kansas, in Maximum Security

It's always gone on, so many examples could be cited Excalibur was simply full f them. A certain Alan Moore series even had Popeye in the background of a bar in Tangiers scared of Kid Miracleman.

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Hyperion's Origin is quite similiar to Supermans except Supes wasn't taken by the government.

Originally posted by Rewmac
Hyperion's Origin is quite similiar to Supermans except Supes wasn't taken by the government.

The original Hyperions was even more similar in many ways last survivor of a destroyed world. Kallark (Gladiator) is also a "homage".

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By Crom!!

come on now whirly. if you want to keep your identity secret, you can't go referencing miracleman.

Yeah, Gladiators' name always REALLY bugged me. Kallark? Clark?

Kallark Kent it is.

Originally posted by manorastroman
come on now whirly. if you want to keep your identity secret, you can't go referencing miracleman.

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By Crom! Who is this Whirly you speak of?

since you're not whirly, allow me to take this opportunity and talk shit about him. whirly was a bodybuilder, but instead of saying how many pounds he could bench, he just talked about how many stone he weighted. that is because whirly was an idiot. and he had really bad acne. whirly also funded the creation of osama's famous cyborg exoskeleton, so he's also really evil. one time, whirly told me he was going to call and never did. what a f ucker.

are you still listening? good.

by crom is an incredible catchphrase, you absurdist little minx.

Originally posted by manorastroman
since you're not whirly, allow me to take this opportunity and talk shit about him. whirly was a bodybuilder, but instead of saying how many pounds he could bench, he just talked about how many stone he weighted. that is because whirly was an idiot. and he had really bad acne. whirly also funded the creation of osama's famous cyborg exoskeleton, so he's also really evil. one time, whirly told me he was going to call and never did. what a f ucker.

are you still listening? good.

by crom is an incredible catchphrase, you absurdist little minx.

By Crom!

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