ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Amalgam Comics

Amalgam Comics is like when two action figures you really like get mashed up into one super cool toy. Do you know what superheroes are? They're like people who have special powers to do really cool things, like fly or shoot webs from their hands.

Well, Amalgam Comics was a special comic book series that came out in the 1990s that mashed up two really cool superhero universes: DC Comics and Marvel Comics. It was like when you wear your Batman shirt with your Spider-Man pants, but waaay cooler.

They took characters from both universes, like Spider-Man and Batman, and mashed them together to make completely new characters like Dark Claw. The characters also had mashed-up names that combined both of their original names, like Super-Soldier (a combination of Superman and Captain America).

Can you imagine how exciting that must have been for superhero fans?! It was like taking the best of both worlds and combining them into something new and awesome. People were really excited about it, and it became a big hit.

So just think of Amalgam Comics as a really cool mashup of your favorite superheroes.