The New Yorker, to which I have been a subscriber since high school, debuted in 1925.
DC Comics, of which I have been a reader except high school, was founded in 1934.
Two American publishing institutions.
With regard to the coveted New Yorker cover, when have the two overlapped?
Only four times that I know of. (I will update if that changes.)
7/17/95; look closely and
you will see Superman
(Peter de Sève)
4/17/99 Plastic Man *
(Art Spiegelman)
11/1/10 I count four (Superman, Batman,
Robin, Wonder Woman),
plus two Marvel (Spider-Man, Hulk)
(Ivan Brunetti)
10/27/14 Joker
(Mark Ulriksen)
* Plastic Man was originally published by Quality Comics, but DC acquired him in 1956.
Thanks to Sean Howe for remembering the third.
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And while they were never at DC or Marvel, in the top left corner of that last New Yorker cover, you'll see a scaled down version of Popeye & Olive Oyl. Some folks think Popeye's a superhero after a fashion, after all.
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