Who has better Magic Characters Marvel or DC.

Who has the cooler magic characters?

DC by far.

DC - Doctor Fate, Zatanna, Mordru, Shazam. I like these ones.

While I'm inclined to say DC, this is a very subjective topic. Both companies have great magic based characters and stories....."whatever floats your boat" as one would say.

Are counting Thor and Asgardian themed stuff as magic?

Okay... before i answer, what kind of characters are we talking here? Characters who use magic as a weapon like Doctor Fate, Zatanna and Doctor Strange or are we talking characters empowered by magic like Captain Marvel... hrhmm Shazam, Thor and Black Adam or... are we talking both??

Black Adam...that is all.

Constantine > Marvel
BB

Captain Marvel > Everyone else

Marvel has extradimensional magiks and innerdimension magic. DC only has innerdimension so Marvel has the edge here.

@KingUranus said:

Marvel has extradimensional magiks and innerdimension magic. DC only has innerdimension so Marvel has the edge here.

The source doesn't count as extradimensional magic or the spectre,pandora,the phandom Stranger this guys are not affected by crisis or tme changes!

Two Words.....

That depends:

If we're talking straight up magicians, Marvel wins for me because of Dr. Stephen Strange.

If we're including gods and all that stuff, DC's got the win because of Captain Marvel and Spectre.

I've always preferred characters like Doctor Fate, Zatanna, Constantine, Shazam, Mordru, the Spectre, Mr. Mxyzptlk, Trigon, etc.

DC but DC fails at focusing on them instead giving us fifteen batman books and eight Superman books.Seriously when was the last time you saw Satanaus , Eclipso or even Simon Dark? How about Ragman?

Actually using their great characters like Mephisto and Blackheart make me vote Marvel over DC.

Granted they did try with JL Dark but I read the first five issues and got bored.

I mean Marvel allowed one of their magic users to stop the creation of new mutants ( A pretty huge event) , DC allows it's magic users to hang out with Batman and Superman.

@quirky_anecdotes said:

DC but DC fails at focusing on them instead giving us fifteen batman books and eight Superman books.Seriously when was the last time you saw Satanaus , Eclipso or even Simon Dark? How about Ragman?

Actually using their great characters like Mephisto and Blackheart make me vote Marvel over DC.

Granted they did try with JL Dark but I read the first five issues and got bored.

I mean Marvel allowed one of their magic users to stop the creation of new mutants ( A pretty huge event) , DC allows it's magic users to hang out with Batman and Superman.

I really agree with this. DC rarely focuses on other sides of their universe that isn't Superman/Batman/Green Lantern-related.

BTW, you should check out JLD 9. Jeff Lemire took over and the book has been awesome so far.

One Word...

SHADE

@Squalleon said:

@KingUranus said:

Marvel has extradimensional magiks and innerdimension magic. DC only has innerdimension so Marvel has the edge here.

The source doesn't count as extradimensional magic or the spectre,pandora,the phandom Stranger this guys are not affected by crisis or tme changes!

Good point.

Marvel for magic users and DC for magic powered. I go with DC on both if we saw more Zatanna. She's probably a tough character to write.

Strange and Scarlet Witch makeMarvel the winner to me.

@SmashBrawler said:

@quirky_anecdotes said:

DC but DC fails at focusing on them instead giving us fifteen batman books and eight Superman books.Seriously when was the last time you saw Satanaus , Eclipso or even Simon Dark? How about Ragman?

Actually using their great characters like Mephisto and Blackheart make me vote Marvel over DC.

Granted they did try with JL Dark but I read the first five issues and got bored.

I mean Marvel allowed one of their magic users to stop the creation of new mutants ( A pretty huge event) , DC allows it's magic users to hang out with Batman and Superman.

I really agree with this. DC rarely focuses on other sides of their universe that isn't Superman/Batman/Green Lantern-related.

BTW, you should check out JLD 9. Jeff Lemire took over and the book has been awesome so far.

DC made Reign in Hell. Was that overlooked? Kinda had DC's who's who of magic.

marvel. because of dr. strange.

@quirky_anecdotes said:

DC but DC fails at focusing on them instead giving us fifteen batman books and eight Superman books.Seriously when was the last time you saw Satanaus , Eclipso or even Simon Dark? How about Ragman?

I mean Marvel allowed one of their magic users to stop the creation of new mutants ( A pretty huge event) , DC allows it's magic users to hang out with Batman and Superman.

Sir, I like you already!

no Mephisto,enchantres,Mordo,loki and such!

Dc. The sentinels of magic back from day of judgement was awesome. Im not a big magic guy but that team was cool

Black Adam

Shadowpact

Etrigan

Dr Fate

DC has better magic characters by far

@Bogey said:

@SmashBrawler said:

@quirky_anecdotes said:

DC but DC fails at focusing on them instead giving us fifteen batman books and eight Superman books.Seriously when was the last time you saw Satanaus , Eclipso or even Simon Dark? How about Ragman?

Actually using their great characters like Mephisto and Blackheart make me vote Marvel over DC.

Granted they did try with JL Dark but I read the first five issues and got bored.

I mean Marvel allowed one of their magic users to stop the creation of new mutants ( A pretty huge event) , DC allows it's magic users to hang out with Batman and Superman.

I really agree with this. DC rarely focuses on other sides of their universe that isn't Superman/Batman/Green Lantern-related.

BTW, you should check out JLD 9. Jeff Lemire took over and the book has been awesome so far.

DC made Reign in Hell. Was that overlooked? Kinda had DC's who's who of magic.

A horribly advertised miniseries that barely affected the main universe? Sure, why not

@quirky_anecdotes: Will we see eclipso in team 7 and in catwoman.Try Jeff lemire's JLD it's awesome

DC because of:

• Black Adam
• Captain Marvel/Shazam
• John Constantine
• Doctor Fate
• Spectre
• Phantom Stranger
• Morpheus
• Zatanna
• Deadman
• Shade
• Ragman
• Swamp Thing
• Animal Man
• Blue Devil
• Kid Devil
• Raven
• Trigon
• Simon Dark
• Andrew Bennett

The only magical Marvel characters I've ever really liked are Doctor Strange, Doctor Voodoo, Doctor Doom, Dan Ketch, and Johnny Blaze.

I think DC has more unique magic users, most of Marvels users are pretty similar

DC! no contest here

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For Me it's a tie, Marvel has Thor and Doctor Strange but DC has Black Adam which makes up the difference. That's my preference, in a fight though Dr. Strange solos them all.,.

They're pretty much equal IMO.

Still DC, So says Fate
 

Marvel

@TheCannon said:

Are counting Thor and Asgardian themed stuff as magic?

Good question! That would tip the scales for me.

DC they have John Constantine

Marvel wins with Ghost Rider alone but they also have Thor and Dormammu so they crush.

IMO DC has a richer collection of magic related characters (and I might argue, for people who know the 2 universes roughly equally - more "well known" ones).

also: A poll would be nice, since there's only 2 options.

DC

DC.

I`m going to say DC.

Both have great characters.

DC, books of magic cements that imo.

better as in more powerful? dc

DC.

dc

DC.

Zatanna, Fate and Constantine tipped the scale for me.

DC