The Ultimate Crossover Pin-up Book!

We're just days away from my celebration of 90s independent comics in the form of Bad Girls: X-Over. And with that I've revisited a bunch of fun bits of 90s comic history over the last couple months. As a fan of several of the young and short universes of the time, the Ultraverse always stuck out to me. After the purchase of the line by Marvel, it was mostly gutted. But an interesting thing happened in the pages of two volumes of Dream Team, a book designed for superstar artists to draw great crossover shots between heroes and villains of both universes. Something strange happened though as they recruited talent...

That's the Fantastic Four versus Ultraverse's Sludge by artist Michael Allred, but it also features another character out of place in either universe. Allred's creator owned Madman made an appearance in this book and he wouldn't be alone! 

William (then Billy) Tucci gave us his own Shi posing with Shuriken and Psylocke: 

Wolverine and Prime team up with Ash by his creators Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti! 

The wildest and weirdest add-on crossover of the book though is by Ben Edlund, who teams up the Hulk and Prime with his own nigh invulnerable creation for the world's strongest... thumb war?

These images all come from the first volume of Dream Team, though I know a second book exists with even more creator owned drop ins! But nothing inspires a story inspired by a potential 90s crossover story like these weird and amazing pieces by some of the best talents of the era! 

Bad Girls: X-Over debuts November 25th on Patreon. 

All characters and art on this post copyright Marvel and/or the respective character owners.