Television Crossover Universe

 From Guest Author and TVCU Crew Member  Sidney Brett Graham So I have this theory in which almost every single visual James Bond depiction we’ve ever seen, down to his appearances in TV commercials, sketch comedies, and Saturday morning cartoons, are all in the same universe. I know you think you’ve heard this one before, but bear with me. (Also, to get this out of the way now, although occasional reference to Ian Fleming may be made, this theory deals only with onscreen Bonds, not with the literary Bond[s] or with the video games. I realize the games sometimes use the actors’ likenesses; maybe they fit in this theory and maybe they don’t. I’ll let you be the judge. I have cheated by incorporating  one  non-visual piece of media.) We’ve all heard the theory that “James Bond” is a code name, and that all the different 007 actors in the EON films are playing different agents that have donned the name and the number (“this never happened to the other fella!”).  Bu...

I first became aware of the fictional crossover/shared reality concept when I was five years old. As my family was about to embark on a drive from Massachusetts to California, my father gave me my first comic book to keep me occupied, and it was an issue of the Marvel Comics adaptation of Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics. This is the first time I was able to comprehend what was going on here, on a significant level. All these characters from their own cartoons were appearing together, as part of the same reality, thus placing all their previous cartoons in the same reality. From that point on, I started becoming more aware. As I started reading more comics, I noticed how all the DC characters lived on one world while the Marvel characters lived on another, and I mostly only bought team and team-up books. Of course, once Superman met Spider-Man, my mind was blown again. For the purpose of this post, we will focus on the silver age Superman, who was Superboy, and whose adventures w...