Worlds Collide (comics)

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Worlds Collide

Worlds Collide #1, artist Mark D. Bright

Publisher	DC Comics Milestone Comics
Schedule	monthly
Format	one-shot
Publication dates	July 1994
Number of issues	1
Main character(s)	Superman, Icon, Superboy, Static, Steel, Hardware

Creative team as of July 1994
Writer(s)	Dwayne McDuffie Ivan Velez, Jr. Robert Washington
Penciller(s)	John Paul Leon, Chris Batista, Tom Grummett, Mark D. Bright, Denys Cowan, Chrisscross
Inker(s)	Rober Quijano, Bobby Rae, Art Nichols, Romeo Tanghal, Prentice Rollins
Colourist(s)	Noelle Giddings
Creator(s)	Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr., Robert Washington

Worlds Collide was a DC Comics title published in (July 1994) to co-incide with an inter-company crossover event. It was written by Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr. and Robert Washington.

1 Publication history
2 Plot
3 Bibliography
4 External links

[edit] 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 were known as fictional characters from comicbooks. Although the crossover had no lasting consequences in DC continuity (DC's Zero Hour event cancelled everything before out), it was remembered by Milestone's superheroes.

[edit] 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 two universe come together to stop him and seal the dangerous rift between their worlds.