Your favorite strange team-ups

[Shellhead]

Over the years, there have been a huge number of comics published. Sooner or later, nearly anything can happen, especially within the context of a large shared setting like the Marvel Universe or the DCU.

What are your favorite strange team-ups within the same setting? And what are your favorite strange team-ups that crossed over between two companies?

Off the top of my head, my favorite strange team-up within a setting was when Deathlok battled Devil-Slayer. I can't even remember if they did the standard team-up against a badguy, but they definitely fought each other.

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=51901494448%2033

Cross-company crossover? I loved JLA/Avengers, but that wasn't strange, it was 20+ years in the making. Hmm. Maybe Batman/Aliens, by DC and Darkhorse. That had a good cinematic story, plus excellent artwork by Bernie Wrightson.

[T GUy]

Spider-Man and Iron Fist - but only because they were 'Together again for the first time!.'

[amphetamine]

For strange, you're not going to do any better than Archie Meets the Punisher.

[Shellhead]

For strange, you're not going to do any better than Archie Meets the Punisher.

I thought that was an internet equivalent to an urban legend. Can we get a cover scan?

[BlaqueBolt]

I thought that was an internet equivalent to an urban legend. Can we get a cover scan?
oh it is real

[TheHistorian]

Comics should have ended right *then* - alas, we were not that lucky...

[amphetamine]

Oh, see, I'm a bigger fan of the Archie cover.

http://msu.edu/~payneam1/img010.jpg

Archie Meets the Punisher will always hold a special place for me as a fan... this was my first experience with a Marvel character in a comic book.

...Damn. Maybe that's why I'm such a DC kid.

[Greg Hatcher]

Well, Archie and the Punisher is a given. That's always going to be the #1 spot.

For those that remember the 80's, though, TOTAL ECLIPSE managed to cross over Tales of the Beanworld with Miracleman, among others. That was pretty demented, and played dead serious too.

And I'll always have a fondness for the old MARVEL TEAM-UP where Spider-Man was paired with characters he had no business being in a story with... Killraven, Red Sonja, Doc Savage, folks like that.

[The Mirrorball Man]

Spawn meeting Cerebus was almost as strange as the Punisher meeting Archie.

[Roquefort Raider]

And I'll always have a fondness for the old MARVEL TEAM-UP where Spider-Man was paired with characters he had no business being in a story with... Killraven, Red Sonja, Doc Savage, folks like that.

...such as Howard the duck! (I think Alan Kupperberg did that one. It may be the only book Kupperberg ever did that I liked). The plot itself was so-so, but Peter's reaction to a talking duck was quite well done.

Other strange team-ups:

Cerebus and the Flaming Carrot in Cerebus #104 and Spawn in Spawn #10.

The Silver Surfer and Dracula really weren't meant to meet, I'm sure...

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2063/200/2063_2_50.jpg

and yet it was reprinted in 1994!


And although it was more of a cameo than a team-up, I enjoyed Tintin's appearance in Fantastic Four (v.3) #1.

[Cei-U!]

Good question. I have to go with this (http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2440/400/2440_4_67.jpg) one.

Cei-U!
I summon the "Ho, ho, wha...?"

[MWGallaher]

Marvel Premiere #28. Ghost Rider, Morbius, Werewolf by Night, and Man-Thing join forces for the first and only time as the Legion of Monsters! I don't know if Marvel ever honestly anticipated launching this concept as an ongoing series, but darned if I wouldn't have loved seeing them try! They later used the trademarked title for a black & white anthology magazine, but I can never accept anything but this fearsome foursome as the true Legion of Monsters! With the car-crash-ignoring Ghost Rider as their leader, futilely shouting out "Stay back!" to the mindless muck monster, the shaggy shapeshifter, and the bloviating bloodsucker, this was an irresistable team-up!

[Shellhead]

Legion of Monsters might have had a slightly better chance without that eyesore artwork by Frank Robbins. Flailing marionettes, that's all he draws.

[Slam_Bradley]

Legion of Monsters might have had a slightly better chance without that eyesore artwork by Frank Robbins. Flailing marionettes, that's all he draws.


Someone has obviously never read Johnny Hazard.

[Aaron King]

No one's mentioned Aunt May as the herald of Galactus teaming up with Franklin Richards. I'm disappointed.

[Reptisaurus!]

It sort of makes sense 'cause they shared an artist...

But Sgt. Rock and the Ghost of the Viking Prince was still kinda weird.

[Zerostatic]

Spawn meeting Cerebus was almost as strange as the Punisher meeting Archie.

That was a cool, cool issue. Though. Classic.

[gentlesatirist]

...in this popular category include Superman/Bugs Bunny and the issue of Marvel Team-Up where Spidey met the cast of Saturday Night Live.


- FE

[Shellhead]

What about Diana Prince (aka Wonder Woman) with Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser? Oh, and Catwoman, too.

http://www.monitorduty.com/images/imgs37/fafhrd400x226.jpg

[The Adventurer]

Superman and Mohammad Ali

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/9526/superali2st.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[scratchie]

This thread seems to have raised from the dead. I cast my vote for the "Spidey meets the Not Ready for Prime Time Players" Team-Up that someone mentioned. I also love the "Together Again for the First Time!" blurb that someone else mentioned. I had to go look that up at GCD to remind myself that it was real.

Boy, crazy days at Marvel in the 70s, I guess!

[Bicycle-Repairman]

My favourite strange team-ups include:

-Man-Thing and Howard the Duck.
-The Savage Dragon meets God.
-The Flaming Carrot and Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman meet Christopher Walken.
-Everyone in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

[Shellhead]

Swamp Thing met Pogo, sort of.

[Bicycle-Repairman]

There was an odd story from Superman #62 (January 1950) in which Superman and Orson Welles thwarted an invasion of Earth by Martian Neo-Nazis.

[The Adventurer]

-Man-Thing and Howard the Duck.

-Everyone in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

These arn't exactly strange. Howard has meet everyone and the League is made up of like era heroes.

[Marc Spector]

-The Flaming Carrot and Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman meet Christopher Walken.


That sounds like the best comic ever! :D

Where did this happen?

[DDM]

Aunt May as Golden Oldie, the new Herald of Galactus with her grandchild, Franklin Richards.

[Babylon23]

Some crossovers I've always loved:

Batman/Robin/Elongated Man/Slam Bradley and Sherlock Holmes from Detective 572

Thor and Conan from What If 39

The FF meet the Beatles in Strange Tales 130

Batman and Sgt. Rock from Brave and the Bold

The Avengers on Late Night with David Letterman from Avengers 239

[Bicycle-Repairman]

That sounds like the best comic ever! :D

Where did this happen?

In the Flaming Carrot & Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman crossover special.

[Bicycle-Repairman]

These arn't exactly strange. Howard has meet everyone and the League is made up of like era heroes.

In my opinion they are. Howard the Duck debuted in a Man-Thing story. Only in Steve Gerber's brilliantly twisted imagination would a talking duck from another planet make an appearance in a horror comic about a mindless swamp monster.

Every character in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is either a literary character or a relative of one. Some of the characters who make guest appearances in the series are quite unexpected. In Volume II, Allan Quatermain and Mina Murray meet Dr. Moreau and his animal-human hybrids, who include Rupert Bear, Tiger Tim, and Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows. A text piece describes Allan and Mina encountering Babar the Elephant and the Mugwump from Naked Lunch during their journeys in Africa.

[Sir Tim Drake]

How about Wolverine and Katie Power, in Uncanny X-Men #205?

[Hombre]

This thread seems to have raised from the dead. I cast my vote for the "Spidey meets the Not Ready for Prime Time Players" Team-Up that someone mentioned.
Boy, crazy days at Marvel in the 70s, I guess!

Reportedly John Belushi was a fan of Marvel Comics, and he visited the Bullpen to meet in person with Chris Claremont and the other creators of the book.

[Hombre]

How about Wolverine and Katie Power, in Uncanny X-Men #205?

Great story, Tim.

[Reptisaurus!]

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Don't ask. Just Buy it!

[Aaron King]

As far as The Brave & The Bold goes, how about Batman and Kamandi? I'm pretty sure they actually met twice.

And Batman's Outsiders is kind of crazy.

[gentlesatirist]

...are still popping out of my head over the existence of a Whitman version of Superman vs. Muhammad Ali.

How did such a thing come to be? Did conservative Western Publishing just decide Muhammad Ali was so popular they'd double their price point for distribution at toy stores nationwide?

And was this the only DC tabloid they did?

My mind is now blown.


- FE
Wickliffe OH