The Brilliance of 1982’s X-MEN and NEW TEEN TITANS Crossover
One of the all-time great crossovers… — UPDATED 4/7/26: With all the DC/Marvel crossovers going on, it’s the perfect time to reprint this one from March 3, 2024. Dig it! — Dan — Scott Tipton has been writing COMICS 101 since 2003 and the feature has had homes at various websites. Now, he brings it to 13th Dimension, where we expect it will have a lengthy stay as a recurring feature. (It also means that Scott has been officially promoted to columnist, moving up from his position as a “contributor-at-large.” These titles are highly coveted, you know, and the backroom backstabbing is as vicious as anything you’d see on Game of Thrones.) Anyway, with DC and Marvel’s recent announcement that they will be releasing two omnibi collecting most of the company’s crossovers, it was a perfect time for Scott to write about the seminal Marvel and DC Present the Uncanny X-Men and the New Teen Titans — and relaunch COMICS 101. Not only that, our old buddy Anthony Durso of The Toyroom, has put together 13 GREAT DC/MARVEL CROSSOVERS WE’D LIKE TO SEE, even if there are no known plans to do any more of them (that we know of). Click here to check out that baby. (And click here to check out SUNDAY FUNNIES WITH KERRY CALLEN, which explains why Batman and Spider-Man don’t team up more often.) But back to Scott. Here goes: — By SCOTT TIPTON In light of the welcome news that Marvel and DC will be co-publishing a series of omnibus editions collecting their various and long-out-of-print crossover comics, let’s take a look back at what I still think is probably the single best of the inter-company crossover books, 1982’s Marvel and DC Present the Uncanny X-Men and the New Teen Titans. Published as a single, 64-page issue, X-Men/Titans captured both teams at the height of their popularity, and with what most fans probably consider the definitive lineups for both teams, with Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Starfire, Raven, Changeling and Cyborg appearing in the Titans, and the X-Men represented by what for me will always be the classic team: Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Kitty Pryde and Professor Xavier. The story, Apokolips…Now, was written by X-Men scribe Chris Claremont and drawn by Walt Simonson and Terry Austin, who did an excellent job of...
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