The Digital Age has created a critical mass of popular culture cross-pollination that would have driven the comics and science fiction fandom of my childhood, with their breathless mimeographed newsletters, into flights of ecstasy. Here, a fan imagines Doc Savage's pulp paperback adventures crossing over into other popular franchises and stories. A "crossover," by the way, was that traditionally rare and sought-event event in which one comic-book character meets another. You can see all these delightful covers here.
Friday, June 14, 2013
The Peril of the Crossover Cases
The Digital Age has created a critical mass of popular culture cross-pollination that would have driven the comics and science fiction fandom of my childhood, with their breathless mimeographed newsletters, into flights of ecstasy. Here, a fan imagines Doc Savage's pulp paperback adventures crossing over into other popular franchises and stories. A "crossover," by the way, was that traditionally rare and sought-event event in which one comic-book character meets another. You can see all these delightful covers here.
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