I actually prefer what we got to what was in the proposal. The get-together winds down, the characters all go their separate ways, and then the reality-shift hits. In Busiek's original plot, the stuff with the flip-flopped universes would have shown up shortly after that scene. He was already on his fifth body when he made his debut. Geeky bit of trivia: In the real Marvel Universe, the Avengers never encountered Ultron-4. It's not that different from the first.Īnd because I'm not sure if the above counts as a comic scan by the community's definitions, here's one of my favorite sequences from the published version of JLA/Avengers: Unfortunately (in my opinion), the editor on the DC side of the project ended up nixing this part of the story, but the hardcover includes Busiek's original typed-up plot.Īctually, it includes two different drafts of the sequence. Superman feels guilt over the destruction of Krypton, Captain America is a US Senator and operates out of Capitol City, etc. And vise versa, we'd see a Marvel Universe in the style of Silver Age DC, with imaginary cities and kooky sci-fi.

So we'd see a DC Universe by way of 60s era Lee, Kirby, Ditko, et al, full of violent emotions and soap opera elements. Originally, it was going to depict what each of the two universes would be like if it had been made by the other company's creative staff. This is from one of the cooler extras in the JLA/Avengers hardcover collection.Īpparently, Kurt Busiek's original plot to issue 3 had to be heavily altered.

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