Worlds Collide (comics)

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caption= Worlds Collide #1, artist Mark D. Bright
schedule= monthly
format= one-shot
publisher=DC Comics
date= July 1994
issues= 1
past_current_color=background:#ff9275
main_char_team= Superman, Icon, Superboy, Static, Steel, Hardware, Rocket
writers= Dwayne McDuffie Ivan Velez, Jr. Robert Washington
artists=
pencillers= John Paul Leon, Chris Batista, Tom Grummett, Mark D. Bright, Denys Cowan, Chrisscross
inkers= Rober Quijano, Bobby Rae, Art Nichols, Romeo Tanghal, Prentice Rollins
colorists= Noelle Giddings
creative_team_month= July
creative_team_year= 1994
creators = Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr., Robert Washington

"Worlds Collide" was a Milestone Comics title published by DC Comics in (July 1994) to coincide with an intercompany crossover event of the same name. It was written by Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr. and Robert Washington.

Publication history

In the summer of 1994, DC Comics and Milestone Media published an intercompany crossover called Worlds Collide. It featured a meeting between Metropolis-based superheroes from the DC Universe and Dakota-based superheroes from the Dakotaverse. Unlike many intercompany crossovers, it was intended to be part of the regular continuity and took place in the monthly issues of the involved series.

The situation was somewhat complicated by the fact that in the Dakotaverse, DC superheroes such as Superman were known as fictional characters from comic books. Although the crossover had no lasting consequences in DC continuity (DC's Zero Hour event cancelled out everything before), it was remembered by Milestone's superheroes.

Plot

A postal worker named Fred Bentson unwittingly becomes a portal between two worlds and two cities. A living link between Dakota, home city of the Milestone heroes and Metropolis home of Superman. Eventually Bentson loses control of his powers and transforms into Rift, a cosmic being capable of manipulating and reconfiguring matter on a subatomic scale. The heroes of the two universes come together to stop him and seal the dangerous rift between their worlds.

Bibliography

*Part 1 - #35
*Part 2 - Hardware #17
*Part 3 - Superboy #6
*Part 4 - Icon #15
*Part 5 - Steel #6
*Part 6 - Blood Syndicate #16
*Part 7 - Worlds Collide #1
*Part 8 - Superboy #7
*Part 9 - Hardware #18
*Part 10 - Superman: Man of Steel #36
*Part 11 - Icon #16
*Part 12 - Steel #7
*Part 13 - Blood Syndicate #17
*Part 14 - Static #14

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/mbrown123/xover/worlds_collide.html Comics Crossover Index: When Worlds Collide]
* [http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_index.asp Milestone Title Index]
* [http://www.blacksuperhero.com/articles/art3-Lander.html Museum of Black Superheroes: Milestone Retrospective]