Just the same, the previous point stands. The genre has the convention of everyone getting to do themselves honour by scoring at least one hit in an encounter, no matter how impossible that would be in the real world. Maggin chose to come up with a possible explanation. Marvel fails to even try on this.
Marvel hasn't addressed the problem because the necessity doesn't exist to address it. To illustrate my point, let's look at the founding JLA roster that fought Starro the Conqueror:
Superman
Wonder Woman
Green Lantern
Martian Manhunter
The Flash
Batman
Aquaman
"Snapper" Carr
Notice that of the characters listed here, Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter and the Flash - four out of seven, the majority by a hair if you count Snapper as a mascot instead of a true member - have superspeed. Now, superspeed is a much more common in the DC Universe than in Marvel: for example, Captain Comet, Ultra the Multi-Alien, the Marvel Family, Ultra Boy, Mon-El and others have superspeed to chow from at their powers buffet table.
Even Thor, the mightiest of all Marvel heroes (except for - POSSIBLY - Captain Universe, Hyperion, Gladiator, Circe, and Captain Ultra, at least if someone would ever write him appropriately) lacks superspeed. It is interesting to note that the Superman equivalent of the Marvel universe, Hyperion, lacks superspeed - Patsy Walker got a few licks in on him in AVENGERS #147 (1975) just with her extraordinary athletic ability. And hey, if your Superman isn't packing superspeed, who can be, right?
Though I'm hardly a fan of Mark Waid's "contributions" to the Flash (this could be a whole other post
[administrator's note: which it now is], but sufficed to say, Mark Waid is to the Flash what John Byrne is to Superman) it is interesting to mention how he pointed out that at DC, there is just about a
CIVILIZATION of "pure" speedsters: Max Mercury, Jessie Quick, Johnny Quick, XS, Impala, the various Flashes over the years, and so on.
Marvel heroes tend to be 1) super-coordinated athletes with post-human prowess, 2) exclusively focused on superstrength and toughness. Attacking Marvel for battle implausibility and innappropriate use of power is throwing stones from a glass house. If anything, Marvel's battles are MORE realistic; Thor and Hulk may demolish warehouse districts with no loss of human life, but at least they don't have to wonder why the battle isn't over in the time it takes an electron to round a cesium atom, because the supertypes can outrun photons.
To be fair, Marvel has some speedsters too. Like Quicksilver, the various Whizzers, and...ummm...uhhhh...ehhh...I mentioned Quicksilver, right? Dang. :wink: