The initial twelve Amalgam titles landed on shelves in February 1996, leaving the fanboy community trembling with joy at seeing the universes mashed up. If readers only knew how far the original plans extended. The initial proposal called for one particularly unprecedented piece of cooperation: The publishers would actually exchange characters for a year. Someone from the Marvel universe—She-Hulk was given as an example—would appear in DC’s publications, and someone from the DC universe would cross over into Marvel’s.
