Marvel Comics crossover with...Guiding Light?

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Marvel Team Up - Guiding Light?

In a cross-promotional move between Marvel Comics and Proctor and Gamble Productions, the Marvel superheroes are going to interact with the stars of the CBS soap opera "The Guiding Light."

I don't need to add anything funny to that.

From Marvel spokesperson Jim McCann: "Basically, on November 1st, Guiding Light is doing a special 'Inside The Light' episode titled 'She’s a Marvel' that I can’t talk too much about just yet, but it is great and it completely opened the door for a logical (believe it or not) crossover. But, because it would be difficult for our characters to appear on screen on Guiding Light (due to film rights, etc), we thought it would be great if their characters appeared in a comic. So, in the story, something has happened in Springfield (Guiding Light’s setting) to attract S.H.I.E.L.D.’s attention. They think there may be a new super-powered human there. So, the (pre-Civil War) New Avengers descend on the town to see if this person is friend or foe. Unfortunately, they didn’t come alone, as some of Marvel’s deadliest villains descend, too, in the hopes of recruiting this person to the dark side, as it were. "

This will be running as a series in the back of several Marvel comics, and GL will be dropping hints and inside comments about Marvel superheroes over the next few weeks. But c'mon, people! Superhero comics and soap operas are nothing alike! Soap operas are filled with implausible relationships, evil twins, nefarious schemes, weird and unrealistic costumes, characters that never stay dead... OK, maybe it will work.

Me, if I want comic book soap operas I'll stick with Strangers in Paradise.
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http://blogs.news-journalonline.com/247/2006/10/marvel_team_up_guiding_light.html

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=85059
 
There were some comic books that went with it.

The TOS/X-Men comic is fairly good (in so much as that is possible) -- the novel and the TNG crossover comic aren't anything spectacular.
 
More importantly - remember when Spider-Man saved the original Saturday Night Live cast from a ninja?
 
LeHah said:
More importantly - remember when Spider-Man saved the original Saturday Night Live cast from a ninja?
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That's barely a crossover, since there could be a fictional SNL on Spidey's NY. Was this during the 70's? They sure had a lot of Ninja's on the 70's.
 
Delance said:
That's barely a crossover, since there could be a fictional SNL on Spidey's NY. Was this during the 70's?
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It wasn't a fictional SNL cast.

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LeHah said:
It wasn't a fictional SNL cast.
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Great cover. But it isn't that uncommon for comic books to use real life (tm) people. John Belushi (cleary a fictional samurai) never had to be saved by an fictional "actual" samurai by spider man, neither was Nixon the president of the US on the 80's.

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Delance said:
John Belushi (cleary a fictional samurai) never had to be saved by an fictional "actual" samurai by spider man, neither was Nixon the president of the US on the 80's.
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That... doesn't mean anything. Belushi played Samurai Futaba on SNL many, many times. You're trying to compare apples and glassware sets.
 
LeHah said:
That... doesn't mean anything. Belushi played Samurai Futaba on SNL many, many times. You're trying to compare apples and glassware sets.
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Belushi and Spidey are not really a "Marvel crossover".
 
You know how well being both anal and wrong about really really specific terms has worked out for you in the past, Delance?

Yeah.
 
Spider-Man = Marvel
With Another Character or Characters = Crossover
 
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