Can anyone tell me comic titles that feature Alternate versions of our famous superheroes?

Answer 1

For DC characters, there are a few graphic novels:

The Dark Knight Returns-

Frank Miller's classic from the 80's which redefined Batman. It's set in a near-future when Batman & Superman are some 30 years older than today...

Red Son-

The spacecraft carrying an infant from the planet Krypton lands in Russia instead of Kansas, and Superman grows up as a Soviet superhero, while Lex Luthor is America's greatest scientist.

Kindgom Come-

Alternate timeline/apocalyptic near future epic involving all the major heroes of the DC universe but focused primarily on Superman. Probably the best alternate universe story ever done.

For Marvel characters, there's the "Ultimate" line of books.

This includes the Ultimates, Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Spider Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four etc. These titles are set in an alternate universe where the origins and backgrounds of well-known charcters are a bit different. It's a grittier, harsher world with more of an edge to it. Reed Richards and Peter Parker are much younger in the Ultimates universe, Nick Fury is a bald black guy, and the Captain America super-soldier project yielded much more impressive results.

There's also the 1602 limited series from a few years ago- that placed many well-known marvel characters back in the 17th century.

Marvel also has a "MAX" line of books which are for mature audiences only (primarily due to explicit language). To my knowledge they are all limited series of a few issues. There was a Thor 6-issue series, a Phoenix 3-issue series, and others involving Fury, Shang-Chi and Luke Cage- probably others too.

Answer 2

Well for Marvel there are the Ultimate stoyrlines, Ultimate Spiderman, Ultimate X-men etc. They're supposed to be the old stories re-told for a new generation. Neil Gaiman wrote a fantastic story '1602' which is set with the big Marvel characters back in 1602. Then there was another story I think called 'Powers' which was basically a what if they didn't have they're Powers? Story.

Also a lot of the more popular heroes have more than one version like The Amazing Spiderman, Spectacular Spiderman and so on they are supposed to be the same people but the storylines don't match up properly.

Oh wow I've written a really long answer, sorry.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

On the DC side, look for anything labeled as "Elseworld". They appear within their regular comics, but feature alternative versions of the characters.

Also Stan Lee (creator of all the Marvel superstars) did a series of one-shoots for DC a couple years back with alternative o fmany of their main characters. They were the "Just Imagine" line.

And Marvel and DC several years back combined all their books for two months under the name Amalgamated Comics. Featured titles like "Magneto and the Metal Men", or a CapAmerica/Superman blend called "SuperSolider". An X-men/Doom Patrol mix called "X-Patrol". A Wolverine/Batman combo called "Dark Claws", etc.

And of course John Byrne's "Generations" series currently running at DC. A look at the future of Batman and Superman.

Look also for John Byrne's "Lost Generation", a story of the pre-Marvel superheros universe that has an alternative character feel. The series starts with issue 12 and ends with issue 1, just to keep it interesting.

Answer 5

Whiz Comics - Captain Marvel. DC Comics - Superman. Captain Marvel was created by Fawcett. Fawcett ceased publishing Captain Marvel and Marvel Family comics in 1953. This was due to both a general decline in the popularity of superheroes and a copyright infringement suit from DC Comics alleging that Captain Marvel was an illegal infringement of Superman.

Answer 6

There is a graphic novel that was produced by Wizard magazine called Twisted Toyfare Theatre.

What they did was take the action figures of superheroes (Spider-man, He-man etc etc) and made a photo story of them in different situations. As the name suggests it was tongue
in cheek & slightly sick in places - but VERY FUNNY

Answer 7

in marvel there is also the age of apocolpse that came out in the mid 90s were you get to see an evil beast cyc and havok magneto is a good guy wolvi only has one hand and is partners with jean and apocolypes rules everything cheak it out its titles are like generition next
amazing xmen
spectacular xmen i think
factorx
weapon x i think those are the titles give it a look if you like the alterrnent demision thing

Answer 8

Ultimate X-men!!! the drama, the hidden secrets, the guilt and shame and psycological problems that come from having the responsibility of saving the world thrust upon such young sholders, the pain of rejection, the love triangles, the break-ups; its all there, so ripe and juicy...*goes on and on about the wonders of the ultimate x-men* read them! read them!

Answer 9

No, but have you read, Bored of the Rings, with the charming hero Dildo Fagins?

Short but very funny!

Answer 10

DC also did a line called 'Tangent'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent_Comics