mclegg

April 13, 2011 6:39 pm It was either Avengers #1 or X-Men #1 that replaced Daredevil #1 on their production schedule. Tom B prefers for it to have been Avengers, but the timing works out that the dubut of The Doom Patrol (a DC version of the FF) could have inspired aspects of the X-Men (namely Professor X). It has been argued that the X-Men were just another version of the FF model, but I think that only makes the Doom Patrol connection stronger. During the previous two years 1961-1963), except for Hulk (and Thor, their version of a Superman) Marvels production of new characters/titles had been their take on what DC had success with the year before. Daredevil was going to be their version of an adult Batman (Spider-Man was their version of a teen Batman, and Goodman didn't like it until the sales reports came in).