September 2001


In the year 2001, DC Comics recruited legendary Marvel Editor and Writer, Stan Lee, co-creator of most of the Iconic characters in the Marvel Universe, to reimagine the company's greatest characters as he might have created them during Marvel's heyday in the 1960s. To this end, Lee reimagined the members of the Justice League in the familiar Marvel style. Transforming them from Paragons of Virtue and ideals to look up to, into relatably flawed, but well-meaning heroes, trying their best to do the right thing despite their faults. Naturally, in the same vein as the MU, he also had the various members of his JLA grouped together in one city, Los Angeles.

Although the series turned out to be a somewhat mixed bag overall, the idea presented within has posed a question to some. What if the concept was reversed? What if Julius Schwartz, DC's legendary Silver Age editor, was brought in by Marvel to reimagine their greatest heroes in the style of the DC Universe? Turning these flawed, misunderstood and sometimes even outright vilified champions out of NYC, into Beloved and inspirational champions in a Universe that has its beginnings in the Summer of 1960, with the formation of this MU's Avengers team. In this world, Heroes are recognized as such by all but a stonehearted few.

The backgrounds, cities, names, costumes, faces may have changed, even the powers may have altered, just a little, but the familiar heroic monikers remain, as, in cities across the world Heroes emerge to fight the forces of darkness. But as a threat too large for any one hero to handle makes itself known, President Nick Fury sends out the call to bring a ground of these heroes to the White House. How many will come and how many will deal with the coming disaster in their own way, is up to you.






OK, so, this is what I've decided to settle on. This RP is basically a reverse of what Stan did with DC's biggest names in the early 00s, but reversed to fit the wider roster of Marvel.

I set in in 1960 since I really want to explore the more...Silver Agey aspects of superheroism and because that was the year the original Justice League came about. As mentioned before, the aim of the game is to take any Marvel hero, and try to imagine what they might have been had they been created under DC's style of writing during the Silver Age, complete with their own creatively named city to protect.

This game is gonna be casual, but anyone with a love of writing can join in if they want to ;P President Fury is gonna be an NPC for everyone to share, that way you can have him interact with all your heroes and keep the plot moving without worrying about the admin's say-so. I'll try to have a character app up soon. Hope to see ya there, true believers! ;)