[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Ravenxl7

As for Captain America and Commander Steel, definitely similar, but not identical. Also, if you want to get technical, Captain America was a rip-off of a DC character, The Shield.

None of them are identical, only similar. If the point of a copy-n'-paste character was to be identical then there would be no point to having different comic companies.
The Shield wasn't DC when created, rather Archie Comics (under their original name). The Shield only debuted ahead of Captain America by 14 months and was one of a few original patriotic based heroes, Captain America was not actually based on any particular one, but was instead the most successful of them. There were so many comics being pushed with patriotic heroes then, that it would prove faulty to try and label the very first patriotic hero and be 100% certain.
The Swamp Thing is borrowed from Man-Thing who had only months ahead of his DC counterpart, and both are technically knock-offs of The Heap from the early 1940s.