AMALGAM MARVEL vs. DC ACCESS 32 issues complete set JLX

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HISTORICAL CONTEXT After the collapse of the comics market in 1993, the industry began a decade-long decline. Editorial malfeasance and speculative profiteering had driven out all but the most dedicated fans. In order not to risk further reader attrition, the major publishers decided to forgo experimentation and cater exclusively to this hardcore reader fanbase, which resulted in a sort of neo-traditionist movement that emphasized the publication of what amounted to little more than glorified fanfiction. Think about it: from 1994 to 2003, what did we see published? An endless series of origin stories and "Year One" projects like Chapter One , Iron Age , Hush , Trinity , and Birthright . An endless series of Elseworlds projects, which basically retold the same origin stories over and over in different contexts. What If? concepts like Spider-Girl and A-Next elevated into ongoing series, because it was more comfortable to read about old stories being alluded to by descendants than to tell genuinely new stories with new characters (see also The Kingdom ). Recidivistic Silver Age homages like the Flashback and Generations series and recidivistic Bronze Age homages like the 80-Page Giants series. Retroactive insertations into old continuity like Untold Tales of Spider-Man and X-Men: Hidden Years , or retroactive reassessment of old continuity like JLA: Incarnations . And the two most critically acclaimed projects of this period were Marvels and Kingdom Come , both of which essentially implied that no comic published after 1974 was worth reading. Finally, this era was concluded by the long-awaited release of the self-indulgent and creatively bankrupt JLA/Avengers crossover, twenty years after its initial publication was aborted in 1983. PRODUCT OVERVIEW However, the apotheosis of this movement was surely the Amalgam crossover series , a collection of 24 issues released in 1996-97 that showcased various Marvel and DC characters fused together into single entities. Their release was flanked by 2 four-part miniseries that had Marvel and DC characters interacting--the first official crossover between the two major companies since the aforementioned JLA/Avengers fiasco thirteen years earlier. These stories are earnest, heartfelt--and completely inaccessible to anyone who hasn't been reading comics for over 40 years. While the Amalgam concept may have been envisioned as an attempt to "make comics fun again," all they do is remind the average reader of how completely arcane and obscure comic book narratives ultimately became. Just because I'm a very nice person (and because my illustrations are of such poor quality), I am going to list each and every issue you will receive, so you can tell whether or not the stories will appeal to you. Should you win this auction, you will receive: DC vs. Marvel miniseries #1-4 (complete) Legends of the Dark Claw (fusion of Batman and Wolverine) Amazon (fusion of Wonder Woman and Storm) Super-Soldier (fusion of Superman and Captain America) JLX (fusion of the Justice League America and X-Men) Assassins (fusion of Deathstroke, the Terminator and Daredevil) Dr. Strangefate (fusion of Dr. Fate and Dr. Strange) Bruce Wayne, Agent of Shield (fusion of Batman and Nick Fury) Spider-Boy (fusion of Superboy and Spider-Man) Speed Demon (fusion of Flash and Ghost Rider) Bullets and Bracelets (fusion of Wonder Woman and Punisher--what the heck?!) Magneto and the Magnetic Men (fusion of Magneto and the Metal Men) X-Patrol (fusion of Doom Patrol and X-Force) All Access miniseries #1-4 (complete) Bat-Thing (fusion of Batman and Swamp Thing) Dark Claw Adventures (fusion of Wolverine and Batman Adventures ) Generation Hex (fusion of Jonah Hex and Generation X) JLX Unleashed (fusion of Justice League America and X-Men) Lobo the Duck (fusion of Lobo and Howard the Duck) Super-Soldier: Man of War (fusion of Superman and Captain America) Challengers of the Fantastic (fusion of Challengers of the Unknown and Fantastic Four) Exciting X-Patrol (fusion of... read more

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