Crossover Covers: Grifter/Shi

 

Shi meets the masked hero known as Grifter (Cole Cash). In the Image Comics Universe, Grifter is a member of the superhero team WildC.A.T.S. This crossover brings in a version of him independent of the team.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: Return to Haverhill

 

Are you a Hack/Slash fan?

Then you'll love this storyline, the second team-up of Cassie Hack and Vlad with Vampirella!

For more details, please purchase my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Relentless

 

A flashback to Paris in the 1920s shows the demigoddess Glory (then known by her birth name of Gloriana) capturing Fantômas alongside Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and Gertrude Stein. Glory is already in the CU through her team-ups with Avengelyne, and the battle with Fantômas further solidifies her inclusion. The Lord of Terror presumably escaped police custody soon after the events of the flashback.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! As with the first two volumes, this latest one is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Nailbiter/Hack/Slash

 

Cassie Hack and Vlad are searching for a homicidal maniac called Mister Fatal. They meet Edward Charles Warren, who tells Cassie he and the killer are from Buckaroo, Oregon, a town which has produced fifteen serial murderers and counting. Mister Fatal seemingly falls to his death from a Ferris wheel, but no corpse is found. After Cassie and Vlad leave, Warren plans to murder Mister Fatal, who is in the trunk of his car. A few years later, Cassie receives an e-mail from Warren, who says her mother, the slasher known as the Lunch Lady, was from Buckaroo. Warren has lured her and Vlad there to be taken out by another serial killer. After they eliminate their opponent, the duo trail Warren to Riverside, California, only to find him being arrested for the so-called “Nailbiter murders.” 

Cassie Hack and Vlad of Hack/Slash fame have many ties to the CU. This crossover brings in Edward Charles Warren, the protagonist of Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson’s comic Nailbiter. An editor’s note places the latter half of this story before Hack/Slash: The Series #12.

For more crossovers like this, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming ASAP from Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert!

Crossover Cover: Interdimensional Women's Prison Breakout

Bomb Queen and two other supervillainesses break out of the otherdimensional prison known as the White Ward and enter Cassie Hack’s world to cause havoc. Cassie teams up with Samhain to bring them to justice. Hoodoo Hex is seen among the inmates of the Ward. This story is a sequel to the one-shot Bomb Queen vs. Hack/Slash, which had Cassie and Vlad traveling to Bomb Queen's alternate universe to battle her. Hoodoo Hex is from Tim Seeley’s web comic Colt Noble and the Megalords.

Crossover Covers: Area 52

Area 52 is a secret government storage facility in Antarctica where super-weapons, occult items, and other weird stuff are stored. Items held within Area 52 include wreckage from Roswell, the Ark of the Covenant, the Super-Soldier formula, Mjolnir, Wonder Woman’s Lasso of Truth, the Time Machine, and an alien power ring that shoots green energy. The Ark of the Covenant is from the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, of course. Apparently the Ark was moved to Area 52 from the government warehouse where it was stored in 1936. The Super-Soldier formula turned the frail Steve Rogers into Captain America. Mjolnir is the hammer wielded by the heroic god Thor; it must have passed into Area 52’s hands millennia after Conan gave it to Crom, following the events of “What If Thor of Asgard Had Met Conan the Barbarian?” Wonder Woman’s lasso is self-explanatory. The Time Machine is from H. G. Wells’ novel of the same name. The alien power ring is the one wielded by the superhero Green Lantern. Several of Simon R. Green's novels mention an Area 52 in the Antarctic, further bolstering this series' connection to the CU.

Crossover Covers: Final

The TV show Hoax Hunters is mentioned, as is a puzzle-obsessed cult led by a self-help guru, and the Necronomicon Ex Mortis appears. Hoax Hunters is from the comic of the same name by Michael Moreci and Steve Seeley, while the self-help guru is the title character of Mike Norton and Dennis Hopeless’ comic The Answer! The Necronomicon Ex Mortis is from the Evil Dead films, and its appearance here leads into the miniseries Army of Darkness vs. Hack/Slash.

Crossover Cover: Monster Baiting

An ailing Vlad is visited and diagnosed by occult physician Dr. Vincent Morrow, the protagonist of Brandon Seifert and Lukas Ketner’s series Witch Doctor, which is also published by Image.

Crossover Cover: Mystery Woman

Fantomah manipulates Cassie Hack and Vlad into attacking the woman responsible for despoiling her jungle home. Fantomah’s mistress attempts to replace her with Cassie, but Vlad convinces his friend not to abandon her humanity. Fantomah, created by the infamous Fletcher Hanks, appeared in fifty issues of Jungle Comics, published by Fiction House. She was an incredibly powerful being who dealt bizarre punishments to those who threatened the jungle where she dwelt; when she used her powers, her face sometimes assumed the form of a skull. Cassie and Vlad previously encountered her in the “Super Sidekick Sleepover Slaughter” storyline.

Crossover Covers: My First Maniac

This miniseries is a prequel to Tim Seeley's comic Hack/Slash, which stars slasher hunters Cassie Hack and Vlad. While researching slashers on the internet, Cassie reads about "a man who kills in dreams in Ohio...a masked maniac who terrorizes a small town on Halloween...a camp plagued for thirty years by a psycho who won't die." Among the other monsters she researches are "rabid dogs" and Hell Spawn, the info on which is accompanied by a picture of Spawn. The man who kills in dreams is Freddy Krueger, from the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. The masked maniac is Michael Myers from the Halloween movies. The psycho who won't die is Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th fame. The rabid dog is the titular canine from Stephen King's novel Cujo. Spawn is a comic book character created by Todd McFarlane; this crossover brings a version of him into the CU, but does not incorporate all of the Image Comics Universe's continuity.