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I remember when those covers came out. Those 4 covers - ESPECIALLY issue #1, put Mike Zeck on the map, and I still think that after all these years artists, those are some of the most powerful covers that Marvel (or any company) has ever put out.

It makes me sad that Joe Quesada and company feel that those types of covers aren't important anymore.
 
I remember when those covers came out. Those 4 covers - ESPECIALLY issue #1, put Mike Zeck on the map, and I still think that after all these years artists, those are some of the most powerful covers that Marvel (or any company) has ever put out.

It makes me sad that Joe Quesada and company feel that those types of covers aren't important anymore.

kids today are too soft :smh:
 
Amalgam Comics
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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 aeons 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 gate keeper who became stuck while traveling between both Universes.
When the fights concluded (including controversial victories by Wolverine and Storm, over Lobo and Wonder Woman respectively), neither universe was willing to go. To prevent total destruction, the Spectre and the Living Tribunal created a merged universe, in which only Axel Asher and Dr. Strangefate knew the truth. Each struggled against the other to reverse or preserve the change.
Eventually, Axel Asher, now called Access, managed to separate the Brothers with the help of Amalgam's heroes; before the merge had taken place, he had planted 'shards' of the universe 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 realise that their conflict was pointless, and all went back to normal.

Amalgam characters

During the event, pairs of Marvel and DC characters or teams were merged into single characters. Usually they had something in common to start with (for example, the Jack Kirby creations the Fantastic Four and Challengers of the Unknown, or water-themed heroes Namor the Sub-Mariner and Aquaman), or their names or themes allowed for clever combinations (such as Superman and Captain America's amalgamation, Super Soldier, a reference to the Super Soldier serum that created Captain America; Bat-Thing, an amalgamation of Man-Bat and Man-Thing; or Shatterstarfire, the amalgamation of Shatterstar and Starfire).

Publication history

For two weeks, 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, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinity Gauntlet and Zero Hour), including an Amalgam version of the cover of Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, with Super-Soldier holding his sidekick's body. The books even went so far as to have letter pages with readers talking about stories they had read for years from the company line.

Amalgam books

Main article: List of Amalgam Comics publications
The first Amalgam event occurred near the end of the Marvel vs. DC crossover event in 1996. The first twelve Amalgam titles were released in a single week, temporarily replacing both publishers' regular releases. Half the comics in the event were published by Marvel and half by DC. A year later, the stunt was repeated, but without the crossover as background. Later, both publishers collected their issues into trade paperback collections.
In the 24 Amalgam Comics printed, one-third of those printed included letter-columns by fictitious fans to give a larger background to the stories and to help give hints of what might
happen in the next issue. The "fans'" hometowns were usually fusions of existing American cities.

1996-1997
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Marvel Illustrated - The Three Musketeers 03 (of 6) (2008) (greengiant-DCP)
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Punisher War Journal 022 (2008) (noads) (FrankBlack-DCP)
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Cthulhu Tales 03 (BOOM! Studios 2008) (Both Covers) (Minutemen-Fungi)
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The Sword 010 (2008) (The Scangstas-DCP)
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Doctor Who Classics 9(2008)(IDW Publishing)(WildBlueZero)
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Marvel Illustrated - The Iliad 08 (2008) (DementedFurby-DCP)
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Manhunter v4 033 (2008) (Delicious-DCP)
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Deepak Chopra's Beyond 03 (of 04) (2008) (c2c) (Minutemen-Dizzy)
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Vinyl Underground 011 (2008) (Steam-DCP)
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Totem 05 (2008) (Minutemen-DarthResin)
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Totem 06 (2008) (Minutemen-DarthResin)
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The Mummy - The Rise and Fall of Xango's Ax 02 (2008) (Rosie-DCP)
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The Twelve 07 (Bang Brothers-DCP)
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Okko - Cycle of Earth 01 (of 4) (2008) (Archangel-DCP)
It is the Winter of 1109 in the official calendar of the Pajan Empire. Okko and his faithful companions – the mysterious masked Noburo, Noshin the monk, and young Tikku – arrive at the City of the Blasting Powder. While seeking a guide to help them cross the perilous chain of the seven monasteries, they meet a skillful warrior: Mow of the Wind.
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Powers v2 029 (2008) (c2c) (GCPD-OCD)
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Pirates Vs. Ninjas Debate In 08(2008)(Antarctic Press)(WildBlueZero)
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Hack-Slash 014 (2008) (Archangel & Rosie-DCP)
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Transformers Movie Prequel Special (SLIMER-DCP)
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Kingdom Come
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Kingdom Come was a four-issue comic book mini-series published in 1996 by DC Comics. It was written by Mark Waid and painted in gouache by Alex Ross, who also developed the concept from an original idea. Set some 20 years into the future of the then-current DC Universe, it deals with a growing conflict between "traditional" superheroes, such as Superman, Wonder Woman, and the Justice League, and a growing population of largely amoral and dangerously irresponsible new vigilantes. Between these two groups is Batman and his assembled team, who attempt to contain the escalating disaster, foil the machinations of Lex Luthor, and prevent a world-ending superhuman war.

The series draws heavily on Biblical apocalyptic imagery, especially that of the Book of Revelation.

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The Kingdom

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The Kingdom is a two-issue comic book limited series and crossover event published by DC Comics in 1999, written by Mark Waid and drawn by Ariel Olivetti/Mike Zeck. This is both a sequel and, in some ways, prequel to Kingdom Come, also by Mark Waid. Both books form an Elseworlds saga, meaning they are abstracted from official DC Comics continuity. The storyline extended into one-shot books entitled Gog, The Kingdom: Kid Flash, The Kingdom: Nightstar, The Kingdom: Offspring, The Kingdom: Planet Krypton, and The Kingdom: Son of the Bat. The entire storyline was later collected into a trade paperback.

The Kingdom does not use the same visual style created by Alex Ross, which was used in the four-issue Kingdom Come series. The storyline in The Kingdom is a direct continuation and extension of the original storyline fleshing out areas of the future that were not explored in the original four-part series. While Kingdom Come can easily exist as a stand-alone story, The Kingdom is not a complete storyline in and of itself and exists only as a continuation of the previous storyline.

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Lady Wiz or Mocca Vixxen, How did you all get into comics?
I just always wondered.
I always wondered

I started reading and collecting when I was like 9 or 10. I have an uncle that used to be a heavy collector and he would let me tag along with him to the comic shop until I was old enough to go on my own.
 
Here is Y:The Last Man complete
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In the series, on July 17, 2002, something (speculated to be a plague) simultaneously kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome - including embryos, fertilized eggs, and even sperm. The only exceptions appear to be Yorick Brown, a young amateur escape artist, and his Capuchin monkey Ampersand.

Society is plunged into chaos as infrastructures collapse and the surviving women everywhere try to cope with the loss of the men, their survivors' guilt, and the knowledge that humanity is doomed to extinction. Vaughan meticulously crafts the new society that emerges out of this chaos, from the conversion of the phallic Washington Monument into a monument to the dead men, to the genesis of the fanatical ultra-feminist Daughters of the Amazon, who believe that Mother Earth cleansed itself of the "aberration" of the Y chromosome, to male impersonators becoming valued romantically and professionally.

Over the course of their journey, Yorick and his friends discover how society has coped in the aftermath of the plague. However, many of the women they encounter have ulterior motives in regard to Yorick. Though the subject matter of the series is entirely serious, Y: The Last Man is also noted for its humor. Yorick in particular is a source of one-liners, although the other characters have their moments as well.

1-17(Unmanned (issues #1-5),Cycles (issues #6-10) ,One Small Step (issues #11-17) )
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18-36(Safeword (issues #18-23),Ring of Truth (issues #24-31),Girl on Girl (issues #32-36))
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37-54(Paper Dolls (issues #37-42),Kimono Dragons (issues #43-48),Motherland (issues #49-54))
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55-60(Whys and Wherefores (Issues #55-60))
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I started reading and collecting when I was like 9 or 10. I have an uncle that used to be a heavy collector and he would let me tag along with him to the comic shop until I was old enough to go on my own.

I figured it was something like that.
I don't think anybody jumps into comics cold turkey.
They are usually put on by a family member.
My 2 oldest brothers were collectors, and I would BEG them for comics whenever I went to their house.
 
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