Thread:ADour/@comment-26078873-20150205212653/@comment-4651179-20150206005004

The idea is really good.

Maybe if you want to reference Marvel Comics, you could use pastiches. Pretty much in the same way the Squadron Supreme is really very similar to DC's Justice League, but at the same time it isn't, so is not as if Marvel was using the Justice League, but at the same time they kinda are.

You could make your original characters read comics from companies with names and logos incredibly similar to Marvel's, DC's and Image's, featuring characters really similar to theirs. Instead of using Captain America, you could create a homage of Captain America, some patriotic hero with the colors of USA's flag. Instead of using Iron Man, you could create an armored hero or humaoid robot. Instead of Thor, you could create a Nordic God with an axe instead of a hammer.

Like I mentioned, Marvel's has their own Justice League, like the Squadron Supreme, or the Great Society. And DC has their own Avengers, like the Maximums, Champions of Angor, or Retaliators. DC even has their own version of some of Marvel's villains, present in the Extremists, and the Fantastic Four, present as the The Four. You can maybe take inspiration from them and create your own pastiches.

You might not like the idea of having to use pastiches, but as an amateur, Marvel probably won't have time to give you permission, or you'll go unnoticed by them, considering they must get a lot of requests. Using pastiches will be the closest way to using the originals without the risks of the companies' lawayers knocking at your door.