While I have been working on my Dasher comic series, I had this endless worry that Dasher could easily be seen as a rip-off to DC Flash or Marvel’s quicksilver. It’s true that they had their own stories, but the flash was an icon in the DC universe more than quicksilver could ever be.
But then, during my research into both of the superhero universes, I came across 2 characters with the same powers that had their own adventures. Elongated man and Ms Marvel.
These characters have there own origin stories, but they have key differences. Elongated man is a fully grown and mature adult, by Ms Marvel was a teenage Asian kid. Based on my research, Ms Marvel was created in 2013 in one of the Captain marvel comic books. Elongated man was first created in 1960 by a man named John Broome.
Now that I know that marvel had copied one of DC’s superheroes before, I realize how legal it is for me to do the same with Dasher. The way I can make him different to the flash is that Dasher can be a teenage in Blackpool UK who had gained his powers from a shock-wave from a meteor impact.
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