10 Times Marvel And DC Secretly Crossed Over

7. The Rutland Halloween Parade

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In 1972, DC writer Len Wein and Marvel writers Steve Engleheart and Gerry Conway were hanging out at the Rutland Halloween Parade in Vermont when they had an idea, a place already filled with people in costume would be the perfect cover for DC and Marvel to stealthily cross over.

The surprisingly meta story began in Marvel Adventures #16. Wein, Engleheart and Conway, along with Wein's wife Glynnis were all inserted into the comic as the four get in the middle of a fight between Beast and Juggernaut on their way to a party.

The story then continued in Justice League of America #103. The quartet's car was stolen by the evil wizard Felix Faust and Glynnis was transformed into Supergirl. The writers chased their car into The Mighty Thor #207 (Glynnis still dressed as Supergirl), just in time for it to knock Loki off a cliff.

The conclusion involved the heroes of both universes coming together in the pages of The Mighty Thor and Justice League of America. In a clever move by the writers and artists, both comics feature a scene from the Rutland Halloween Parade.

The different perspectives from each issue revealed that both the Marvel heroes and the DC heroes had a float in the same parade.

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