Crossover Cover: On the Executioner's Blood List

 

Are you a pulp fan?

Then you'll love W. Wirt's story in this issue, featuring his character Jimmy Wilson, which also has an appearance by his prior series character John Norcross!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of 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: The Masked Marksman's Command Performance

This issue contains the story “The Masked Marksman's Command Performance” by Emile C. Tepperman. Ed Race, the Masked Marksman, puts his skills to the test to prove to the FBI agents known as the Suicide Squad (Dan Murdock, Johnny Kerrigan, and Stephen Klaw) he is not a Nazi spy, and teams up with them to prevent the real enemy agents from blowing up the train on which they are traveling. This tale crosses over Tepperman’s Masked Marksman series, which appeared in The Spider, and the Suicide Squad tales, which appeared in Ace G-Man Stories. Ed Race is in the CU through an encounter with the Spider in Rich Harvey’s story “One Death to a Customer.” Similarly, the Suicide Squad is in through a reference in Stuart Shiffman’s story “True Believers,” which features or mentions many characters already in the CU, notably the Sâr Dubnotal.

Crossover Covers: Return of the Monsters

In 2011, Moonstone Books did four one-shot comics pitting pulp heroes against classic monsters. Three of them had crossovers:

The Black Bat and Death Angel (an original vigilante created by writer Mike Bullock) vs. the Lord of the Vampires.

In this one, the Domino Lady refers to Ravenwood, an occult detective who had his own backup feature in the pulp Secret Agent X.

Besides the obvious featured characters, there are also references to other pulp characters: Donald Wandrei's scientific detective I.V. Frost, providing his first known link to the Crossover Universe; the aforementioned Domino Lady and Black Bat; and the Spider.

There was also a fourth one-shot, The Spider vs. Werewolf, which didn't have any crossovers. Nevertheless, here's the cover for anyone who's interested:

Crossover Cover: Night of the Avenger