![]() In his spare time, you can find him entertaining kids as Spider-Man or Darth Vader at birthday parties or scaring the heck out of them at haunted houses. Thanks to a life spent immersed in comic books and movies, Michael is always ready to infuse his articles with offbeat bits of trivia for an extra layer of fun. Michael’s background in storytelling draws him to find the most fascinating aspects of any topic and transform them into a narrative that informs and entertains the reader. A graduate of Arizona State University with a PhD in 20th Century American Literature, Michael has written novels, short stories, stage plays, screenplays, and how-to manuals. His work has been featured in Screen Rant, ASU Now, Sell Books Fast,, and Free Arts among others. Michael Jung is a mild-mannered freelance writer-for-hire, actor, and professional storyteller with a keen interest in pop culture, education, nonprofit organizations, and unusual side hustles. Since Marvel artist and Fantastic Four co-creator Jack Kirby had helped create the original Challengers of the Unknown comic book before using similar ideas for the Fantastic Four, Amalgam was apparently acknowledging the debt the comics owed to each other. Some of the new issues even gave a metafictional nod to comic characters that inspired each other – like Challengers of the Fantastic #1, a combination of Marvel’s Fantastic Four and DC’s Challengers of the Unknown. Related: Batman vs Iron Man: Who Would Win In Real-Life Battle? These comics revisited heroes like Dark Claw (who got his own animated series adaptation in Dark Claw Adventures #1) and explored weirder corners of the Amalgam Universe in issues like Bat-Thing #1 (a combination of DC’s Man-Bat and Marvel’s Man-Thing) and Lobo the Duck #1 (a combination of DC’s Lobo and – yes, really – Marvel’s Howard the Duck). ![]() ![]() The “Amalgam Comics” proved so popular that DC and Marvel later partnered to produce twelve more Amalgam Comics. This was far from the end of the Amalgam heroes, however. He even convinced the cosmic “Brothers” to let both universes live. Strangefate wanted to stop Access from splitting his Amalgam universe apart, but Access succeeded in restoring the Marvel and DC Universes. Strangefate – a combination of Doctor Strange and Doctor Fate (who also turned out to be Charles Xavier!). Access was hunted through the Amalgam Universe by Dr. The only person to remain unchanged was Access – a new character created by both Marvel and DC who had the power to move between the universes. He was a combination of the Flash, Ghost Rider, and DC’s rhyming demon Etrigan.
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