9 Marvel Heroes Embarrassingly Similar To DC Characters

7. The Atom & Ant-Man

Marvel's Ant-Man is about to make his big-screen debut this Summer, but DC tried to minimize the impact of the Marvel Comics hero by introducing its own Tiny Titan months earlier, as a supporting character on the CW's Arrow series. DC's character sort of falls through the cracks, however, because we won't get to see Ray Palmer shrink until the November 2015 debut of the CW's spinoff show Legends Of Tomorrow. In the meantime, Scott Lang will prove to the world that - when it comes to heroes - size really DOESN'T matter. But which character was the first to get small? DC's the Atom debuted in Showcase #34, in 1961, while Ant-Man crawled on the scene a scant four months later, in Tales to Astonish #27. Small world, huh? Stan Lee didn't bestow the character's name, or transform him into a recurring costumed hero until issue #35 (Sept. 1962). DC still gets no bragging rights on this one; this may prove only a small honor, but credit for the first diminutive superhero goes to Quality Comics, which published creator Will (The Spirit) Eisner's Dollman way back in 1939.