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Did Amalgam do any interesting villain combinations? Combine Batman and Wolverine, so combine their nemeses too? Sabertooth in clown makeup? The angriest juggalo
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Apr 28, 2020 04:04
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I think most of the interesting villain combinations are the ones on the sideline. Like Scarecrow. It's Scarecrow plus Scarecrow! Siliconman. It's Sandman but he's wearing Plastic Man's glasses! Shaggynaut. What if?™ Juggernaut was also a shag carpet? Of the featured villains Green Skull is probably the best because it's Lex Luthor but he's given himself kryptonite poisoning and is also an immortal nazi in charge of Hydra. Also he's married to Lois Lane and Catwoman is his daughter.
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Apr 28, 2020 04:18
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The Jackal. The rest of villains weren’t split between Wolverine and Batman. Riddler was mixed with Kingpin, and Catwoman was combined with Elektra. EDIT: Favorite Amalgam villain was probably Bizaarnage. Open Marriage Night fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Apr 28, 2020 |
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Apr 28, 2020 04:22
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I liked Ra's a-Pocalypse, myself.
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Apr 28, 2020 07:03
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two words: doctor doomsday
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Apr 28, 2020 18:07
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Thanoseid just seemed redundant. Think I’ll dig out my old cards when I go to my parents house later. Marvel vs DC and Amalgam are so 90’s, I’d love to see what pairings and combos they’d come up with for the characters of this era. First ones that pops into my head is Miles Morales Spider-Man and Sideways, and Squirrel Girl and Barbara Gordon Batgirl.
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Apr 28, 2020 18:52
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Hire 'H' for Hero
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Apr 28, 2020 18:54
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Open Marriage Night posted:Thanoseid just seemed redundant. What about Barbara Gordon Oracle? The amalgam could be Hampster Wheel. Edit: like a cross between these two:  
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Apr 28, 2020 19:27
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There was a Spider-Man/Invincible crossover when Kirkman was writing Marvel Team-Up, and it's actually available on Marvel Unlimited, which I didn't expect for anything involving IP Marvel doesn't own.
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Apr 28, 2020 20:51
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If memory serves, Kirkman was only allowed to do it if Marvel got reprint rights and he wasn't ever allowed to reprint it in his TPBs.
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Apr 28, 2020 20:53
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Rhyno posted:If memory serves, Kirkman was only allowed to do it if Marvel got reprint rights and he wasn't ever allowed to reprint it in his TPBs. For a one off that makes a lot of sense, plus wasn't that when Marvelwas leaning pretty heavily into writing for trades, almost everything was 6 issue arcs. I haven't read that era of Marvel Team-up, was there any sort of ongoing plot? Because then it would really suck if a chunk of story was missing from future reprints
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Apr 28, 2020 21:03
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Rhyno posted:If memory serves, Kirkman was only allowed to do it if Marvel got reprint rights and he wasn't ever allowed to reprint it in his TPBs. So in the Invincible collections does it just skip over it and go "uh yeah so anyway there was this cross-universe adventure he had with a quite MARVELOUS set of characters from another company I AM FORBIDDEN TO EVER NAME."
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Apr 28, 2020 21:04
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No there's a page or two of him meeting other dimensional heroes and you see the opposite side if part of the Spiderman one.
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Apr 28, 2020 21:18
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How Wonderful! posted:Hire 'H' for Hero Dial a HUSK was one of the more clever Amalgams. It was pretty much just the regular H dial, but kind of gross. EDIT: Thanks for reminding me that I need to order that Dial H collection. Open Marriage Night fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Apr 28, 2020 |
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Apr 28, 2020 22:51
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Open Marriage Night posted:It was pretty much just the regular H dial, but kind of gross. China Mieville's Trick
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Apr 28, 2020 22:53
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Open Marriage Night posted:Dial a HUSK was one of the more clever Amalgams. It was pretty much just the regular H dial, but kind of gross. I remain slightly annoyed that they amalgamated Quicksilver and Mercury of the Metal Men in Magneto and the Magnetic Men, and didn't use either name for the character, because Quicksilver was a dead character in Amalgam, and Mercury had been grabbed for a JL-X character made of Quicksilver and Impulse. Insted, he was Nickel. maltesh fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Apr 28, 2020 |
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Apr 28, 2020 23:19
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Prince is super lazy. She’s just 90’s leather Wonder Woman with a bow who is married to Castle who is Steve Trevor mixed with the Punisher. You’d think they’d just use Artemis, but nope, her name is still Diana. Classic Wonder Woman is mixed with Storm as the Amazon. Black Bat is Barbara Gordon Batgirl in black and gray with Black Cat’s mask. Not Felicia Gordon or Barbara Hardy. Barbara Gordon. Magneto is just Magneto with blonde hair and a slightly different costume. No signs of Doctor Polaris or anything. Could have at least called him Doc Magneto. Shatterstarfire is actually pretty inspired. Ferro Lad/Colossus as Ferro Man is simple, but looks great. Mixing Barry and Wally with Johnny Blaze and Dan Ketch to make Speed Demon and Kid Demon is pretty neat too. Elektra/Catwoman is Catsai. Deathstroke/Daredevil is a woman named Dare. Nuke is just Bane but Santa Prisca was a Hydra compound. Hydra is just Hydra. Costumes and all. Jocasta is Jocasta/Platinum, but evil and looks like a female Sentinel. Baron Zero is Mr.Freeze/Baron Von Strucker. I forgot how lazy most of these were. EDIT: Man-Bat-Thing didn’t get a card. Open Marriage Night fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Apr 29, 2020 |
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Apr 29, 2020 00:46
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Open Marriage Night posted:Baron Zero is Mr.Freeze/Baron Von Strucker. Of all the barons to go with for this joke, why'd they pick Von Strucker and not Zemo? I guess he wasn't really a high profile character pre-Thunderbolts but still.
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Apr 29, 2020 00:57
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As a kid in the '80s, I always assumed Baron Zemo was a top-tier Marvel villain between him leading the Masters of Evil in their siege of Avengers Mansion (my favorite pre-Bendis Avengers story) and getting an action figure in the Secret Wars toy line. But I also assumed Dr. Doom was Spider-Man's arch-enemy because he appeared so prominently in the '80s animated series.
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Apr 29, 2020 01:37
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maltesh posted:I remain slightly annoyed that they amalgamated Quicksilver and Mercury of the Metal Men in Magneto and the Magnetic Men, and didn't use either name for the character, because Quicksilver was a dead character in Amalgam, and Mercury had been grabbed for a JL-X character made of Quicksilver and Impulse. Well, Quicksilver isn’t a real metal, and Mercury isn’t magnetic. And apparently Ferro Man (Ferro Lad/Colossus) is also part Robot Man because he’s in X Patrol. Lead by Niles Cable. Elasti Girl is a combination of Elasti Girl/Wasp, and her nick name is Domino and has a circle around one eye.
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Apr 29, 2020 01:51
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Quicksilver is the real metal mercury.
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Apr 29, 2020 02:13
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Some of Dial Husk's transformations were inspired, like Mary Marvel Girl and Artemisty Knight.
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Apr 29, 2020 12:24
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:Did Amalgam do any interesting villain combinations? Combine Batman and Wolverine, so combine their nemeses too? The Hyena. 
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also notable I feel is Spider-Boy, who is Ben Reilly and Superboy and I loved both of their dumb 90s designs even if I'm not sure the concept works
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Apr 29, 2020 16:30
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That was one of the best of the bunch.
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Apr 29, 2020 17:15
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Lunatic Sledge posted:does that leave kitty pryde / nightwing? shadow wing? Night Cat? 
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Apr 30, 2020 15:36
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I remember that month where there was the big Nightcat push on the Bullpen Bulletins page and then I never saw the comic at all. Not that I wanted to read it, I just found it odd that I never saw it all.
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Apr 30, 2020 15:39
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Oh man, when Cardiac finds out who stole his staff, he's going to be so Hm, probably not mad at all, actually.
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Apr 30, 2020 15:46
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Lobok posted:Oh man, when Cardiac finds out who stole his staff, he's going to be so Cardiac will just be happy that someone remembers him.
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Apr 30, 2020 16:05
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Cardiac's dead I think.
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Apr 30, 2020 16:08
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Not back then, though. What some call the Nightcat Age.
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Apr 30, 2020 16:12
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Given the hair and the style of the outfit I'm pretty sure I was alive during the time when this came out, but I'm drawing a blank on "America's Hottest Singing Sensation" here.
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Apr 30, 2020 16:34
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CzarChasm posted:Given the hair and the style of the outfit I'm pretty sure I was alive during the time when this came out, but I'm drawing a blank on "America's Hottest Singing Sensation" here. You don't remember the non-charting smash single #1 House Rule? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-hfE009MKM It's... not bad? Here's Elliot R. Brown talking about the project along with vintage photographs he took of NIGHTCAT on top of the Marvel offices. Here's the Marvel Age article/press release about the comic   The only official release of Jim Lee's character design appears to be this lovely Comic Images trading card 
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the distaff adventures of the guffless girlverine, committee-created in the finest merry marvel manner
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Edge & Christian posted:Here's Elliot R. Brown talking about the project along with vintage photographs he took of NIGHTCAT on top of the Marvel offices. quote:Thanks to the internet, one can read that this now-one-shot magazine did not sell well. The creative team was probably as good as these things could get. Jim Salicrup alone – one of Marvel’s unsung creative geniuses – was one of the more thoughtful “idea men” of that time. He was credited along with (Editor Mike Rockwits’) Assistant Editor Barry Dutter, as the character and plot creators. If you ever get a chance to see/find/turn up a copy of Dutter’s solo publishing effort, GAG! magazine, you should do yourself a favor and read it. As good as it gets!
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Apr 30, 2020 17:20
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I remember Atop the Fourth Wall did a review of Night Cat. I seem to recall 'Ninja-style dancers' were a plot point.
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Apr 30, 2020 17:52
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I don't feel like the cover adequately exposes the volume of the hair. Thank you Charles H. Stein 
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Squizzle posted:the distaff adventures of the guffless girlverine, committee-created in the finest merry marvel manner I will name change the first person who asks "Guffless Girlverine"
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