The long-awaited DC and Marvel collaboration The Amalgam Age Omnibus is now available at your local comic shop.
The DC Versus Marvel: The Amalgam Age Omnibus features all of 1996 and 1997’s memorable DC/Marvel mashups of existing characters made new in a fused universe in a series of one-shots including Assassins, Bat-Thing, Bruce Wayne: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Bullets and Bracelets, Challengers of the Fantastic, Dark Claw Adventures, Doctor Strangefate, Exciting X-Patrol, Generation Hex, Iron Lantern, JLX Unleashed, Legend of the Dark Claw, Lobo the Duck, The Magnetic Men Featuring Magneto, Speed Demon, Spider-Boy, Spider-Boy Team-Up, Super Soldier, Super Soldier: Man of War, Thorion of the New Asgods, X-Patrol, and a story from Green Lantern #87.
In addition to the Amalgam titles, the Omnibus also contain the DC Versus Marvel mini-series, DC/Marvel All Access #1-4, Unlimited Access #1-4, a look at the trading cards, and other bonus art and materials.
The Omnibus contains writing by Ron Marz, Peter David, Karl Kesel, John Byrne, D.G. Chichester, Larry Hama, Chuck Dixon, John Ostrander, Ty Templeton, Barbara Kesel, Peter Milligan, Kurt Busiek, Christopher Priest, Alan Grant, Tom Peyer, Howard Mackie, James Felder, R.K. Sternse, Mark Waid, Dave Gibbons, and Keith Giffen.
Art is provided by Dan Jurgens, Claudio Castellini, Jackson Guice, Pat Olliffe, John Byrne, Scott McDaniel, Rodolfo Damaggio, Cary Nord, Gary Frank, Tom Grummett, Ty Templeton, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Bryan Hitch, Adam Pollina, Paul Smith, Oscar Jiminez, Jim Balent, Val Semeiks, Barry Kitson, Salvador Larroca, Mike Wieringo, Ladronn, Dave Gibbons, John Romita, Jr., Roger Cruz, Tom Grindberg, Joe Rubenstein, Paul Neary, Al Williamson, Terry Austin, Derek Fisher, Bill Sienkiewicz, Mark Pennington, Cam Smith, Al Vey, Rick Burchett, Kevin Nowlan, Mark Morales, Al Milgrom, Hanibal Rodriguez, Ray McCarthy, Ray Kryssing, Dan Panosian, Gary Martin, Karl Kesel, Juan Vlasco, Jimmy Palmiott, Jon Holdredge, and Romeo Tanghal.
The DC Versus Marvel: The Amalgam Age Omnibus also contains introductions by Marz and Kesel and afterwords by Mike Carlin and Tom Breevort.
The DC Versus Marvel Omnibus (which included the original DC and Marvel team-ups starting with 1976’s Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man Treasury Edition) was released earlier this year.
The DC Versus Marvel: The Amalgam Age Omnibus consists of 1,024 pages for a suggested retail price of$150.00.
The DC/Marvel: The Amalgam Age Omnibus comes with a cover by Dave Gibbons and a direct-market-exclusive cover by Jim Lee.
