My cousin sent me this link to Crossover Comics Calvacade.
I would LOVE a copy of this issue where Catwoman meets Vampirella.
The first Superman/Spider-Man crossover was incredibly lame.
The second was incredibly cool.
Mighod.
Man, sometimes our culture EATS itself, don’t it?
I’m surprised that site did not include the book where Batman meets Tarzan in “Claws of the Catwoman”.
I like the story, but I wish it had been drawn by Russ Manning, my favorite illustrator of Tarzan.
A good portion of comic crossovers are lame for one reason: They make the two good guys fight each other for some odd pages, finally figuring out that they’re on each others side and then going off against the bad guy. Sometimes it takes them half the issue/mini series to do so. It is quite interesting to see how the different heroes react together, especially with the Batman/Punisher crossover.
It would be nice if with every DC/Marvel crossover it didn’t end with “…And they completely forgot everything that happend during the crossover.” It’d be a legal nightmare, but in theory it would be cool to see the marvel/dc universe coexist in ways.
Has anybody read Archie Vs. The Punisher? Am I correct in believing that the crossover was pretty laughable?
Not a crossover, but a few years ago, there was a series called “Amalgam” comics (or that was the name of the company) that had composite DC/Marvel characters. Wish I had picked up a copy, now.
I had this book a long time ago. Well, of course it was laughable, it’s Archie Meets (not versus) the Punisher! 
The main things I remember are the complete lack of bloodshed and the big crush Mrs. Grundy had on the Punisher. I think he kissed her on the cheek, or maybe she kissed him, at some point.
It was cute!
They may be about the best. The combination characters were a hoot (Bruce Wayne, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. or Lobo the Duck or Dr. Strangefate) and since they didn’t have to set up the various contrived fight scenes, the stories were good (it was also fun trying to puzzle out what character was an amalgam of what).
I want more Amalgam. Some of the previous issues mentioned throughout the books and the letters page sound like they’d be good stories to read, and the references were usually made in the way you’d have to read the issue to understand it fully. What stopped DC and Marvel from doing more of them?
I have one of the Superman/Spider-Man crossovers (its part of this bigger then normal comic book where a Hulk/Batman crossover and a couple others). It has to do with a Lex Luthor and Doc Oct team up and making a red sun radation beam or something. I take this to be the lame one your talking about, can you give me the title of thier second team up.
A year (I think) after the first wave of Amalgam comics that followed the big Marvel/DC crossover, they did release a second wave. The only one I can remember right now is Dark Claw Adventures - a book done in the animated style and featuring the Wolverine/Batman hybrd. I do remember that that wave didn’t do nearly as well as the first.
A big reason the first one did so well was definitely the Marve/DC miniseries that led up to it, so I wasn’t suprised the new books didn’t do as well. And seeing as how the current Marvel administration doesn’t seem to keen on doing anything with DC at all, it doesn’t suprise me there haven’t been more. They were pretty cool, though. I’d buy an ongoing Spider-Boy.
Tsk, tsk, tsk… and you call yourself a comics fan?
My favorite crossovers:
Batman/Grendel: Devil’s Riddle and Devil’s Masque, written and drawn by Matt Wagner.
Hunter Rose is very much like an evil, amoral version of Bruce Wayne - rich, famous (a best-selling novelist), and ridiculously talented at everything. He turned to crime out of boredom and became the feared assassin and crimelord known as Grendel. The two match wits when Grendel comes to Gotham City to play a little game with Batman, and they learn they have a lot more in common than they thought. I am a huge fan of Grendel and Matt Wagner, and I highly recommend these two prestige format issues to any Bat-fans.
The Superman/Madman Hullabaloo, written and drawn by Mike Allred.
This trippy, kitschy tribute to fun Silver Age comics teams up Superman and Madman, Allred’s introspective, independent superhero. Allred’s retro-pop art style is perfect for illustrating the hybrid heroes created when they are merged together, their multi-dimensional adventures in Metropolis and funky Snap City, and Madman’s final duel with Mr. Mxyztlpyk.
Huh? Aren’t there plenty of Marvel/DC crossovers, especially the early ones, that assume that both sets of characters exist in the same universe? There are certainly enough where one can ponder which type of crossover is better.
I certainly don’t think they’re nearly as rare as you imply in the grand scheme of crossovers…
I guess you’re correct. However I remember reading some issues where superman/other cross over guy would say something like “Hmm, what was I doing for the last few hours, I can’t seem to remember?”.
It was Superman/Silver Surfer that had them forget. Anyway, the thread comes full circle, sort of, here: www.geocities.com/utherworld/new.html
I think I know what the title of the second team up is: The Heroes and the Holocaust where Superman and Spiderman team up against Doctor Doom and the Parasite. The Hulk and Wonder Woman also appear in this story.
This story and the first team up (The Battle of the Century) are included in Volume One of Crossover Classics - The Marvel/DC Collection. It also contains Batman vs. the Incredible Hulk and The Uncanny X-Men and the New Teen Titans. We bought our copy of this book recently at our local comic book store.
Archie/Punisher! I remember seeing that in stores! Wow, that was a while back . . . I never read it, but wow.
IMHO, it’s okay, but it doesn’t live up to the hopes I had for it.
They are not expensive, if you can find them in the back-issue bins. Also, the first year’s set have been reprinted in three soft-cover volumes. One is called “DC Versus Marve.l” I believe it reprints the four-part frame tale, plus “Dr. StrangeFate,” the only Amalgam issue which affected the frame tale. The other two books each reprint six of the twelve Amalgam comics, with the result that “Dr. StrangeFate” is reprinted twice. I think that at least one of the reprint books is titled “The Amalgam Age,” but I may be confused about that.