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I've suddenly been struck by the concept of someone creating a fictional character not intended for a certain company-owned universe, but then inserting them, anyway. This probably happens in television and movies, as well, but comics seem to be the most common field/medium for the 'company-owned universe' set-up.
Pete Wisdom showed up in some early Warren Ellis works, self-owned, prior to his introduction to Excalibur, while Ellis worked on that title. Now Marvel owns him and Claremont gets to write him.
Nightcrawler was someone Cockrum was designing for 'Legion of Superheroes' and many of that set of All-New, All-Different were roughly derived from the same set of Legion designs.
There has to be others, but everything else I can think of are cross-over deals, where everybody gets to keep the rights to their character(s) and such.
Does this, in fact, happen - as it must, elsewhere? Any examples?
I know some StarWars type comics characters were carried over into one of the later films, but beyond that, I'm clueless, 'cause I don't really follow a whole lotta StarWars.
Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo went through a bit of a licensing similarity, when one of the Mirage boys asked him if he wanted an Usagi toy and somebody made the thing. Liefieldian Usagi, it was. So Usagi and the Ninja Turtles were all licensed under the same umbrella, but again, not quite the same.
DC went through a period of buying up other comics universes, such as the Cappy Marvel world, and Earth whatever where Blue Beetle and The Question came from. (Earth C?) |
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