10 Greatest Marvel/DC Team-Ups

Some people can't tell characters from Marvel's stable and those from DC apart, and while they've got good reason in that there are a lot of capes, cowls and highly impractical latex bodysuits on both sides, the differences between the two companies are pronounced. Many of DC's characters, for example, have an air of cold stiffness about them, and aren't particularly relatable - it's hard to sympathise with either a man who's basically a god or one who has enough money to give himself more or less the abilities of one - while Marvel's books are made up largely of social misfits with real, everyday problems. These days, the divide between the two houses has grown even wider, with the House of Ideas miles ahead of their Distinguished Competition in cinematic stakes and DC cancelling book after book because they've made their recently-rebooted fictional universe much too inaccessible to casual readers while their rivals attract new readers with quirky, continuity-light stories starring some of their best-known characters. That said, while the companies have had their differences in the past and are rarely on the same page, there have been a few times in the past when they've put their grudges aside and allowed creators to use characters from both of their vast libraries to create stories that couldn't exist in any other circumstance (well, other than fan fiction, but let's steer clear of that murky water for now). Some are patently ridiculous, some are ill-considered and some are everything you could hope for when you see the sentence "Marvel/DC", but all of them involve that most treasured trope of any team-up comic; a misunderstanding that leads to two heroes duking it out in spectacular fashion before realising neiher of them is the enemy. Here are ten of the best...