From the mid-Twentieth Century, when The Spider
clashed with Mr. Hyde; The Domino Lady worked with The
Black Bat, The Avenger, and Airboy; Batman variously
teamed up with The Shadow, Captain America, The Spirit,
and Sherlock Holmes; Philip Marlowe had a brush with the
Deep Ones and later worked with Sam Spade; the Nyctalope
teamed up with Professor Quatermass; Bulldog Drummond
combined forces with Richard Hannay for one last
adventure; Nero Wolfe, Ellery Queen, Lord Peter, Perry
Mason, and Mike Hammer solved a murder; and Vampirella
teamed up with or fought just about everyone... ...To
the Twenty-first Century, when Frankenstein's Creature
battled Dracula and Mr. Hyde, and traveled to the Lost
World; Witchblade and the Darkness joined forces with
Vampirella; the worlds of Boston P.I. Spenser, Sheriff
Jesse Stone, and detective Sunny Randall came together;
and a modern-day Van Helsing went up against the current
incarnation of the Black Coats... ...To the far-flung
future, when Spock claimed Holmes as an ancestor and
Ishmael flew with the wind whales... Crossovers is a
massive timeline of crossover stories in which
characters, situations, or universes are linked together
in order to build the Crossover Universe. Lovingly
compiled by crossover and Wold Newton expert Win Scott
Eckert, Crossovers lists upwards of 2000 crossover
stories, with innumerable additional timeline entries
which outline the secret history of the land of fiction.
With an introduction by Jess Nevins, this volume is
illustrated with over 300 book and magazine covers, and
contains an appendix covering Kim Newman's Anno Dracula
series.
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