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[email protected] Maya Angelou Comic giants Marvel and DC’s sticks to familiar rivalry soars to new heights! territory in Letter to be getting the SIEGE variant. “Frankly, of the books that retailers can dismantle, Derek Roper our Blackest Night books sold very well,” has worked for Marvel in the past, and SENIOR STAFF WRITER McNeal said. “We have more Captain while some of the issues would sit there, My Daughter America [a Marvel title] sitting around there could be a chance that they would Marvel and DC Comic’s two super than the DC titles.” He feels that Marvel is sell (back issues of old comics are sold heroes, Spider-Man and Superman, odd for marketing like this. But he views every day to new fans). This kind of would be very disappointed in the it as “good old-fashioned Marvel vs. DC.” marketing strategy--if it took off--could unheroic acts of their publishing McNeal feels the cost of the comics being hurt the comic industry, because older companies. Late last year DC Comics destroyed would total more ($200) than print issues would be obsolete and could offered promotional rings that coincided the actual variant itself and “breaking lead to downloading the comic off of with their companywide crossover story, even doesn’t pay the rent.” illegal pirate sites. Blackest Night, which features the hero Geoff Johns (writer for Blackest Night) While DC doesn’t have as much Green Lantern and his comrades. So why took to his Twitter, saying, “A Deadpool going on with them as Marvel does, the rings? In the story, all the rings run variant is anything but rare.