Amalgam Comics

Amalgam Comics was a metafictional American comic book publisher, and part of a collaboration between Marvel Comics and , in which the two comic book publishers merged their characters to create new ones (e.g. DC Comics' and Marvel's Wolverine became the Amalgam character Dark Claw). These characters first appeared in a series of twelve comic books which were published in 1996, following the Marvel vs DC miniseries. A second set (of another twelve comic books) followed a year later.
==Fictional origin==
The two comic universes came together when the incarnations of their respective universes (referred to as "the Brothers") became aware of each other after eons of slumber. To prevent the Brothers from destroying each other, characters from each universe battled to determine which universe would survive; several of the matches were determined by online voting. Axel Asher, a character created for the event (co-owned by Marvel and DC), served as a gatekeeper who became stuck traveling between both Universes.
When the fights concluded (including controversial victories by Wolverine and Storm over and , respectively), neither universe was willing to go. To prevent total destruction, the and the Living Tribunal created a merged universe in which only Axel Asher and Doctor Strangefate knew the truth. The two struggled against each other to reverse or preserve the change.
Eventually, Axel Asher, now called Access, managed to separate the Brothers with the help of Amalgam's other heroes. Before the merger had taken place, he had planted pure 'shards' of the universes in Batman and Captain America, and once he discovered Dark Claw and Super Soldier, he used those shards to give the Spectre and the Tribunal the power to restore the universes. Batman, Captain America, and Access were thus able to make the Brothers realize that their conflict was pointless, and all returned to normal.
==Publication history==
For two months, Marvel and DC published Amalgam Comics. During the publication of Amalgam Comics, the companies treated it as if it had always existed, giving it a fictional history stretching back to the Golden Age of Comics, as well as retcons and reboots, such as the Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour (an amalgam of Secret Wars, , Infinity Gauntlet, and ), including an Amalgam version of the cover of Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, with Super-Soldier holding his sidekick's body.
==Amalgam One-Shots - First Series==
The various Amalgam one-shots printed in April 1996:
*Amazon: An amalgam of Storm and 
*Assassins: Dare was an amalgam of , his daughter , and Daredevil; Catsai was an amalgam of Elektra and 
*Bruce Wayne: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.: An amalgam of and Nick Fury
*Bullets and Bracelets: An amalgam of the Punisher and alongside another analogue to 
*Doctor Strangefate: An amalgam of Doctor Strange and with hints of Professor X
*JLX: An amalgam of the X-Men and the 
*Legends of the Dark Claw: An amalgam of Wolverine and 
*Magneto and the Magnetic Men: An analogue of Magneto (reimagined as a brother to an alternate ), alongside amalgams of the Brotherhood of Mutants and the 
*Speed Demon: An amalgam of Ghost Rider, , and the 
*Spider-Boy: An amalgam of Spider-Man and 
*Super Soldier: An amalgam of and Captain America
*X-Patrol: An amalgam of X-Force and the 
==Amalgam One-Shots - Second Series==
Here are a list of the various Amalgam one-shots printed in June 1997.
*Bat-Thing: and Man-Thing
*Challengers Of the Fantastic: The Fantastic Four and The 
*The Darkclaw Adventures: Wolverine and 
*The Exciting X-Patrol: X-Force and Doom Patrol
*Generation Hex: Generation X (plus other X-Men) and (plus other heroes)
*Iron Lantern: Iron Man and 
*JLX Unleashed: X-Men and The Justice League of America
*Lobo The Duck: Howard the Duck and 
*Magnetic Men: Featuring Magneto: Magneto and the Metal Men
*Spider-Boy Team-Up: Spider-Man and Superboy, teamed-up with two versions of the Guardians of the Galaxy and of the 
*Super Soldier: Man of War: Captain America and Superman
*Thorion of the New Asgods: Thor and 
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