![]() This epic crossover between Marvel and IDW from 2007 involves a conflict between Doctor Doom’s Eastern European nation of Latveria and the neighboring nation of Symkaria. This 1996 Elseworlds one-shot sees Captain America and Bucky Barnes ordered away from the front lines of World War II to travel to Gotham, where they meet and eventually team up with Batman and Robin, and the four have to battle the nefarious plans of the sadistic pairing of Joker and Red Skull. Comic fans didn’t care about it and soap opera fans actively hated the unrealistic storyline, and everyone involved really should have seen that coming. As it turns out, the audience for both comics and the soap opera had very little overlap. On Marvel Comics’ side, they created a one-off special issue featuring Harley and the Guiding Light universe. ![]() In the TV show, one of the series’ main characters, the incredibly named Harley Davidson-Cooper (Beth Ehlers) gained superpowers due to reasons. Guiding Light (For Some Reason)įor reasons that are as inexplicable now as they simply had to have been at the time, Marvel felt like it would be a good idea to do a crossover with the soap opera Guiding Light back in 2006. It was an ambitious, bizarre effort from both companies that deserves revisiting. He faced off against Green Skull, a combination of Lex Luthor and Red Skull. There was also Super-Soldier, a cross between Superman and Captain America. ![]() So Batman and Wolverine were essentially combined to form the character Dark Claw (real name: Logan Wayne) - whose nemesis was Hyena, a cross between Joker and Sabretooth. The characters were all amalgams (hence the subtle name) of characters from both universes. The Amalgam Universeįrom 1996 to 1997, DC and Marvel came together to form a united comic imprint known as Amalgam Comics. Then fighting happened, and somehow Robin was useful. X-Men/Teen TitansĬonsidered to be one of the best Marvel/DC crossovers to date, the X-Men and the New Teen Titans crossed paths in 1982 when Darkseid broke the universe barrier in an attempt to resurrect and harness the power of Dark Phoenix. (There’s also the meta-movie crossover in which Patrick Stewart plays both Professor X and Picard, but that’s besides the point). It apparently happened again with Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men, when the X-Men met Captain Picard. While it might seem odd to think the modern day X-Men would ever run into the crew of the USS Enterprise and Captain Kirk (considering the whole “outer space” and “distant future” aspects of Star Trek), this is exactly what happened when the X-Men fell through a dimensional rift in the 1996 one-off Star Trek/X-Men. The story doesn’t really have a resolution of any kind, but at least the Guardians of the Galaxy randomly show up in the last panel! (You can read the whole thing here, it’s crazy short.) 3. This crossover was published as part of Marvel’s Secret Wars #0 in June 2015, and was an effort to get manga fans more interested in Marvel shenanigans. This one-shot crossover special, Attack on Avengers, sees the ravenous giants from Attack on Titan emerge from the sea off Manhattan, where Spider-Man and some of the other Avengers have to battle them back as they destroy the city. The bizarre, high-concept crossover was met with surprising acclaim, and was published by both Archie Comics and Marvel Comics (under the titles Archie Meets The Punisher and The Punisher Meets Archie respectively). He then teams up with Archie to save Veronica Lodge from a kidnapping baddie. In a special 1994 crossover event, The Punisher hunts down Archie Andrews, mistakenly thinking he’s a criminal in need of some punishing. In our inaugural episode of The Doombots Podcast, we talk about a few stranger crossovers - so now we’re looking back at (nearly) all of Marvel’s best, worst and weirdest universe-blending crossover events of all time. Very rarely, they end up being all of those things. Sometimes they are pulse-pounding epic sagas, and sometimes they are brazen cash grabs and shameless attempts at cross-promotion that embarrass everyone involved. Comic book crossovers have long been massive, wildly hyped events that bring two universes together for an epic story featuring otherwise-impossible team-ups and collaborations. ![]()
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