Television Crossover Universe

Stan Lee loved a shared universe. Prior to 1961, comic book crossovers between series within the same company rarely happened. Team books like JSA and 7 Soldiers had team-ups of series leads but that never spilled over into individual titles. There was the one time that the JSA met Hop Harrigan, and that time the Sandman interacted with the Newsboy Legion and the Boys Commandos. Over in Marvel, we had the Human Torch fighting Sub-Mariner. Fawcett had a few rare team-ups as well outside the Marvel Family. In the 50s, Worlds Finest brought the worlds of Superman and Batman together, and that would sometimes spill over into other titles. And Adventure Comics played with some inter-series crossovers between Superboy, Green Arrow, and Aquaman. When pre-Marvel tried to bring back the Golden Age in the 50s, we got to see Cap meeting Human Torch and Sub-Mariner. But then Stan Lee, tired of the same old comics, decided to quit. His wife convinced him that before he does tha...

Next Saturday, March 19, the TVCU Crew  will be recording episodes 15 and 16 of the Television Crossover Universe podcast from Castle Wolfenstein on the Grand Guignol Network.  In episode 14, we announced our guest for episode 15 would be JESS THOMAS COOK. But life events came up, and he had to reschedule.  We will be having him on in May.  So instead, in Episode 15, Robert , Ivan , Chris and James will be talking amongst themselves without a guest, in the first in what will be a regular recurring alternate format, in which the crew will have an entire show devoted to talking about the history of shared cinematic universes.   In Episode 16,  Robert ,  Ivan ,  Chris  and  James  will be talking with author  JERRE WINSBORROW , CEO of Pyramid Graphic Novels and creator of Natalia Hyde. New episodes of the show are released every Tuesday.  You can check out the latest episode at the link provided in the upper ri...