Super Soldier 1 Secret of the K Bombs Marvel DC Amalgam Comic Book 1996
Super Soldier 1 Secret of the K Bombs Marvel DC Amalgam Comic Book 1996
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3 Stars When D.C. and Marvel Were Mixed
Before the rise of the graphic novel and the lucrative contracts with movie studios, the comic book industry has been in a major slump for about fifteen years. The worst period for comics was the mid-1990s. Beginning around 1989, comic book sales began to decrease at an alarming rate. The entire industry was affected, but D.C. was hurt the most. D.C. tried anything and everything to get turn sales around. Superman died. Joker paralyzed Batgirl. Green Lantern went insane and tried to rule the universe. Then someone at D.C. came up with the idea of Elseworlds. Beginning with BATMAN: GOTHAM AT GASLIGHT, Elseworlds were one shot “what if” issues, giving famous D.C. heroes origins of other characters, having them appear in other places of history, or mixing their origins with those of famous literary characters. The Elseworlds comics were a huge success. They were less expensive to produce, were only one issue, sold a huge number, and were very popular. Later Marvel and D.C. joined together to form a new series of comics, the Amalgam Comics. This joint venture was a spin-off of the Elseworld idea, but also built up hype for the D.C/Marvel crossovers that happened. The Amalgam Comics featured totally new heroes that were a combination of heroes from both the D.C. and Marvel universes. Thus Super-Soldier was a mixture of Superman and Captain America.
In SUPER-SOLDIER #1, Jimmy Olsen, the Editor of a large legitimate newspaper is almost beaten to death by a mutated Lex Luthor. Super-Soldier learns what happens and sets out to stop Luthor from fulfilling a plan he originally formed fifty years before.
Other than the historical significance of the Amalgam Comics, there’s not much to recommend about SUPER-SOLDIER #1. Super-Soldier was one of the more popular characters from the Amalgam universe and was a key character in the overarching plot of the series. Issue #1 finds him taking on his arch nemesis and discovering the secret of the K-Bombs that were released nearly fifty years before.
Recommended for comic collectors or fans of the Amalgam universe.
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