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Marvel Comics and DC Comics have co-owned the trademark for the phrase “super hero” since 1981. They pursued this action because the toy company Mego, which made licensed toys of DC characters, had beat them to it. Mego gave up the trademark when the two companies threatened legal action.
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Most people assume that Luke Cage does not have any superpowers of his own, and is just a muscled-up vigilante like The Punisher, who takes matters into his own hands with just his fists and a lead pipe. The truth, however, is that Luke Cage has legitimate superpowers. After undergoing a scientific experiment with a variant of the Super Soldier serum used on Captain America, Cage develops both superhuman strength and unbreakable skin. These powers have helped to make him a real tough bastard, and pretty hard to beat, which means that, unsurprisingly, he rarely shies away from a fist fight or physical encounter. While he can’t fly or shoot lasers around, the character nevertheless has a few of the most impressive superpowers, as he is, by most conventional measures, invulnerable to injury.
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Though G.I. Joe is owned by Hasbro, the majority of the characters and mythology for the toys and animated series were created mainly by Larry Hama, the writer of the licensed comics published by Marvel Comics. Editor-in-chief Jim Shooter was the one to suggest that G.I. Joe was a team rather than the name of a particular person.
Larry Hama’s vision for G.I. Joe was originally intended as a new direction for Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D.