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CROSSOVER MADNESS

 In this post I noted how one issue of Timely's KRAZY KOMICS took a subordinate character, The Creeper, from a strip called "The Vagabond" and made him a co-star of a strip about a rabbit-detective named Homer. Only this first "teamup: counts as a crossover. A little later The Creeper was joined in his nutty nefarious activities by his lookalike son "Crawler," while Homer and his allies kept chasing the two of them down. In KK #9-10 the antagonists visited "Fairy Land" (which might as well be th...

MONSTER MASHUPS #128

 

This MARVEL FAMILY story, "The Trio of Terror," is not only a crossover for the Marvels but also a "mashup" of three monsters from Greek mythology.

True, the story acts as all three are "monster-types," when that distinction applies only to the Satyr. In mythology there's only one Argus and one Hydra, and as almost anyone knows, the Hydra is not some two-headed troll but a seven-headed dragon. Since none of the three are particularized icons, the monsters comprise a mashup but not a crossover.  ...

MONSTER MASHUPS #127

 THE METAL-EATING MONSTER.                                                         

THE TREE TERROR.                                                                           THE GIGANTO-BULL.                                                                          




              

CROSSOVER MADNESS

 Yet another encounter of Casper with fairy-tale characters, from "Grumpy Characters," SPOOKY SPOOKTOWN #15 (1965).                       

                                                                                                                                                                                                    

MONSTER MASHUPS #126

 The Ghostly Trio learn that they just don't rate as true monsters in "For Monsters Only" in TUFF GHOSTS #19 (1965).                              

MONSTER MASHUPS #125

 Here's a scene from SANTA VS. DRACULA, though the entire work is not yet offered online.                                                                              

RAR #92: THE MOHAWK POLTERGEIST

 

The 1983 SUPER FRIENDS episode "Once Upon a Poltergeist" brings Batman, Robin, and Apache Chief into conflict with the unnamed ghost of a deceased Mohawk chief, who creates havoc in Gotham City because he has mistaken the terrain for his ancestral lands. The scenes in which the Mohawk shakes the towering buildings of Gotham in order to hurl them from "his" land is an inspired menace, since in general Real Americans have a grudge against WASPS for usurping the land, even if the menace in this st...

CROSSOVER MADNESS

The WB toon Sylvester is even more involved than the Herman and Katnip team discussed here.                                                                         

                                                                                       Famous Studios' Herman the Mouse already had starring status by the time he was teamed with Katnip, and though it's been argued that Katnip was preceded by various "proto-Katnips," the first Herman/Katnip cartoon is really Katnip's first appearance...

MONSTER MASHUPS #124

 Somehow I think the HEAVY-MATTER EAGLE is pretty much the same as the earlier STONE-CRUSHING EAGLE.                                    

THE GORILLA-SAUR.                                                                         THE GIANT VAMPIRE BAT.                                                              

MONSTER MASHUPS #123

 THE STONE-THROWING MONSTER.                                                            

THE METALPECKER MONSTER.                                                          The prosaically named FLYING MONSTER.                                       THE PLANT MONSTER and THE ROBOT BODYGUARD.                      In this issue, the writer apparently decided that he would keep the creature-quota even higher through the use of featurettes on "Famous Monsters Samson Had Known," but which didn't actually ap...