Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes

The crew of the starship Enterprise and the Legion of Super-Heroes find their worlds merged into one ruled by a tyrannical government known as the Imperial Planets. They find out that the ruler of this world is the man known in the Enterprise crew’s universe as Flint and in the Legion’s universe as Vandal Savage. A time-traveling Q was captured by the immortal caveman, diverging and combining both timelines. This story once again confirms that the DC Universe is an alternate reality to the CU. The Legion seen here appears to be the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths version of the team, at some point after the “Great Darkness Saga” storyline. Vandar the Stone, as Savage/Flint is now known, shows his captives several time machines once belonging to those who tried to topple his empire. The time machines include: Lazarus’ capsule from the Star Trek episode “The Alternative Factor”; the Atavachron from the Star Trek episode “All Our Yesterdays”; Berlinghoff Rasmussen’s time pod from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “A Matter of Time”; an Epoch-class timeship from the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Future’s End”; the data disk from Enterprise; the Doctor and the Master’s TARDISes from Doctor Who; the phone booth from the films Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey; the Rocket Sled from the film Timecop; the DeLorean from the Back to the Future film series; the Cosmic Treadmill used by the DC Comics superhero the Flash; the Lazarus Pit, the source of immortality for Batman’s foe Ra’s al Ghul; the Dagger of Time from the Prince of Persia video game series; a time bubble from the Legion of Super-Heroes stories; H.G. Wells’ machine from the film Time After Time; the stopwatch from the TV series Voyagers!; the time sphere from the DC comic Rip Hunter, Time Master; and the titular conveyances from the films Hot Tub Time Machine and Stargate, H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, and the television series The Time Tunnel. Presumably, at least some of these devices existed in the CU and/or the DCU before Vandar altered time.

Crossover Covers: Shangri-La

Lara Croft travels to the Immortal City of Shangri-La, and has to fight her way back out again. Shangri-La is from James Hilton’s Lost Horizon. Both the one-shot comic Tomoe/Witchblade: Fire Sermon (set in 1995) and the Army of Darkness comic storyline “League of Light Assemble!” (set in 2008) portray Shangri-La as having been abandoned by its former inhabitants, but apparently a select few stayed behind.

Crossover Cover: Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Lost World

Carl Kolchak has heard about two professors from Duke University who seem to run into the bizarre almost as much as he does. Falling asleep, Kolchak enters the dreamplane. The two professors from Duke University are Drs. Hugh Blakely and William Boles, who appear appear in a series of stories by Henderson and Bruce Gehweiler that are collected in Where Angels Fear. The dreamplane is from Henderson's novels featuring Teddy London, a private eye who regularly encounters the supernatural. This novel takes place in March, two years after Kolchak's first encounter with a vampire in The Night Stalker. Since Win placed The Night Stalker in 1970, I have placed The Lost World in March 1972. As with other Kolchak stories published by Moonstone, I am ignoring contemporary references such as the Internet and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in order to maintain Kolchak's adventures in their original time frame.

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.

Crossover Cover: Longarm and the Devil's Bride

In the library of Grant Stockton’s house, Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Parker “Longarm” Long finds thick, leather-bound books whose authors have foreign-sounding names that he doesn’t recognize, such as Alhazred and Von Junzt. Longarm is already in the CU through a meeting with his fellow Western series characters Clint Adams (of the Gunsmith series) and Slocum. Abdul Alhazred is the author of the Necronomicon in H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Friedrich Wilhelm von Junzt, the author of Unaussprechlichen Kulten, is from Robert E. Howard’s own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos. The time of year is stated to be spring, and Longarm is surprised that Stockton doesn't have a copy of Governor Lew Wallace's new book Ben-Hur, which was first published on November 12, 1880. Therefore, I have placed this novel in the spring of 1881.