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    |title=<center>DC Versus Marvel/Marvel Versus DC</center>
    |image=marvelvsdc3.jpg
    |imagecaption=''Marvel Versus DC'' #3 cover.
    |status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Lost'''</span>
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'''''DC Versus Marvel''''' (also known as '''''Marvel Versus DC''''' for issues 2 and 3) is a 1996 crossover event between DC and Marvel Comics. The crossover featured 11 fights between Marvel and DC heroes, whoever won the least fights was to have their universe be destroyed. While a majority of the fights were determined by the staff working on the mini-series the 5 fights featuring each of the company's most iconic characters were selected by fan vote. '''Every possible ending for these fights were drawn but only of the alternate endings has ever been released'''.<ref name=":0">[https://twitter.com/ronmarz/status/1246490046590582786 Ron Marz's tweet showing off the alternate Hulk victory art.]</ref>

== Background ==
After the comic book market crashed in the latter half of the early-90s both DC and Marvel were looking for a big event to hopefully kick start sales again. They ultimately decided it was best to join forces and have 22 of their characters face each in 11 1-1 battles to determine the fate of their universes. While 6 of the battles' victors were chosen by the book's creative team with the other 5 being chosen fans who could choose the battles winner by dropping off their ballot at their local comic shop, mailing in a ballot physically, or by emailing a certain email.<ref name=":1">[https://www.cbr.com/dc-vs-marvel-superhero-fight-fan-vote-look-back/ ''How Did the Writers of DC vs. Marvel Handle the Fan Voting Of the Superhero Fights?'' on CBR by Brian Cronin.]</ref>

== Fan Voted Battles ==
As stated before there were 5 battles determined by fan vote which all took place within issue #3 of the mini-series.<ref name=":1" /> These battles can be seen below with the victors of each battle being underlined.

* <u>Batman</u> vs. Captain America
* Hulk vs. <u>Superman</u>
* Superboy vs. <u>Spider-Man</u>
* <u>Wolverine</u> vs. Lobo
* Wonder Woman vs. <u>Storm</u>

[[File:Hulkbeatssuperman.jpg|thumb|281x281px|The alternate ending of the Hulk vs. Superman fight where Hulk wins.]]
Since the creative team wouldn't know who was going to win the fan vote the alternate endings were mostly kept to one page to reduce the amount of material that would have to be drawn twice.<ref name=":0" />

== Availability ==
While Ron Marz has released the page from the alternate ending of the Hulk vs. Superman fight no pages from the other alternate endings has been released and with this being crossover between two companies who seem to have little interest in releasing them an official release seems unlikely.

== References ==
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