Anonymous
asked:
I recall that during the 90s Marvel DC crossovers there was a character called Access whose job it was to keep the Marvel and DC universes seperate, and he is aparently co-owned by Marvel and DC. 2 questions: 1) Why wasn't he in JLA/Avengers not even in a cameo? 2) If he is co-owned does that mean that both companies could use him whenever they wanted as long as they didn't bring up the other companies characters?
1) We didn’t want to use him, nor did we want to reference any previous crossover. We wanted to approach JLA/AVENGERS as the first time these characters ever met, not the sixth or eighth or whatever it would have been. Access just muddies all of that stuff up.
2) Both companies needed to agree to any usage of Access–so Marvel, for example, had to approve him appearing in an issue of GREEN LANTERN that Ron Marz wrote back during that period. But more critically, a character whose only benefit is to allow for crossovers appearing in a non-crossover story isn’t terribly compelling.
Access was kind of a flawed idea.