Hal Jordan is boldly going on an adventure with Captain Kirk, Spock and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. IDW Publishing and DC Comics announced Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War four-part event this July. This cosmic crossover joins Archie vs. Predator from Archie Comics and Dark Horse Comics this summer in the arena of most unlikely crossovers in comics history.
Stranger things have happened in the comics world. Here are our top picks for the unlikely but true comics crossovers:
Star Trek/X-Men by Scott Lobdell and Marc Silvestri is just one of three unusual crossovers for the Children of the Atom. The reality warping evil mutant Proteus and Gary Mitchell, the Starfleet officer turned super being.
Archie Meets the Punisher. Before the Riverdale Gang faces an alien enemy on spring break…Marvel’s most infamous vigilante in a 1994 one-shot. Archie is a dead ringer for a drug dealer named “Red” hiding out in Riverdale. Fortunately Frank Castle was working to only apprehend this suspect and not deliver his usual punishment.
The Uncanny X-Men/New Teen Titans by Chris Claremont featured the ultimate crossover of Marvel and DC’s youngest and best selling teams of teh 1980’s as Darkseid resurrected Dark Phoenix.
JLA/Avengers was the event fans had waited a decade for after initial teaser art by the legendary George Perez. Years later, Kurt Busiek created a story in which Krona and the Grandmaster pitted the rival superteams in a battle to save both of their universes.
By Editor