{"id":44634,"date":"2025-06-16T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=44634"},"modified":"2025-06-10T04:26:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:26:19","slug":"licensed-contest-of-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/06\/licensed-contest-of-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Licensed Contest of Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"

On October 29, 2014, Marvel Comics released the Marvel 75th Anniversary Celebration<\/i> comic, honoring the company's big anniversary. In addition to new and classic<\/a> stories, there were a bunch of one-page gag entries under the collective heading \"Celebrating the Best Marvel Comics Never Made.\" Including this gem:<\/p>\n

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Artist Alan Davis drew the whole scene, Mark Farmer inked it, and then it was presumably up to Rachelle Rosenberg to be the one to expurgate all the unacceptable bits. To prove it, here's the original art:<\/p>\n

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Okay, so the reason GI Joe, the Transformers, Care Bears, etc. aren't included is because this is specifically about licensed characters who, like Rom: Spaceknight<\/a>, were not just published by Marvel, but also integrated into the normal Marvel 616 continuity. That's fine. But if that's the case, where's Conan? Where's The Doctor? Where's ALF<\/a>?<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>