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CROSSOVER MADNESS

 Since the cartoon JAMES BOND JR takes place in a world where James Bond has a college-age nephew involved in fighting evil spies, no crossovers are involved when Junior faces off against alternate-universe versions of Goldfinger and his henchman Oddjob.                           

  However, if this Goldfinger also associates with a character from the "Bond cosmos" that the original's not associated with-- as in the episode "Cruise to Oblivion," where the villain also employs "Nick Nack," a crea...

CROSSOVER MADNESS

Whereas the Disney animated shorts usually only crossed over characters who had appeared in the cartoons, the Disney comic books, usually published by Dell, felt free to intermingle any characters any Disney project had adapted-- thus providing a "mass crossover" universe some time before Marvel Comics did so. In this 1960 tale "Bad Deeds' Club Annual Picnic" (DELL GIANT #33), Gyro Gearloose not only encounters a bunch of disparate villains-- the Big Bad Wolf, the Wicked Witch, Black Pete, Capta...

MONSTER MASHUPS #122

 And in this corner, we have--                                                                        

THE PETAL-PRISON PLANT.                                                                        THE BLACK MONSTER.                                                                     THE GIANT WORM.                                                                            THE MONSTER MAN. (He's also called "the Ice Monster," but MS already had one of those.)                                         ...

RAR #91: THE KICKMIQUIK TRIBE

 In this 1950 DONALD DUCK story by Carl Barks, the tribe encountered by Donald and his nephews never has a proper name. However, since they live near a river called "the Kickmiquik," why not let that be their default name? In my essay I noted that Barks exerted himself to make the tribal people's customs and attire match that of the Indians of the Northwestern U.S.                                                                        

MONSTER MASHUPS #121

 Relatively small mashup in issue #7.                                                                    

THE MOLE MONSTERS.                                                                     And THE FLOWING BLOB.

MONSTER MASHUPS #120

 And from MS #6 we get... THE KANGORILLA!                                          

THE METAL EATERS.                                                                         THE SPIDERSAURUS.                                                                             
 THE JET-BIRD.                                                                                     THE VACUUM BEAST.                                                                                  THE COLOSSO-WHALE.                    ...

MONSTER MASHUPS #119

 More one-shot monsters from MIGHTY SAMSON #4.                                        

The rather unimaginatively named GIANT TOAD and GIANT FLYING FISH.                                                                                                     THE ICE MONSTER.                                                                             The comparatively original HIGH-SPEED HYENAS.                                     And THE HYPNO-BEAST, the first one in the series to look like a mutated hum...

RAR #90: TUROK AND ANDAR

 Here's a scene from the first appearance of those intrepid comic-book braves Turok and Andar, as they have their initial encounter with the denizens of the mysterious lost valley that (in the original comic) they never escape. Here they meet both dinosaurs and cavepeople in one easy lesson.                                                                                                       

  

MONSTER MASHUPS #118

 MIGHTY SAMSON #3. No monsters repeated yet.                                         

THE SPIDER-BEAST.                                                                                   THE DOUBLE SNAKE.                                                                                THE STONE-CRUSHING EAGLE.                                                       THE TENTACLED GORILLA.                                                                        THE HORNED RHINOPHANT.                          ...

MONSTER MASHUPS #117

 More mutant monster malarkey from MIGHTY SAMSON #2.                                                                                 

Here we get the Fanged Flyers.                                                                     Then the Morass Monster and the Three-Jawed Gator (I only see two).                                                                                                           
 Then there's the Titano-Turtle.                                                               ...