The Amalgam Universe, known as Earth-496 and Earth 1996 before and after Flashpoint, respectively, is a parallel universe (an amalgamation of Marvel's Earth-616 and DC's New Earth) and created as a result of a cross-multiversal conflict between two warring cosmic beings.
History
Pre-Flashpoint
When two cosmic beings known as the Brothers (the embodiments of both the Marvel and DC Multiverses) remembered each other's existence, they pitted combatants from their respective realities against each other together. The winner would then destroy the loser (and its own respective Multiverse). To prevent this from happening, the Living Tribunal and the Spectre joined forces and combined the two universes together, creating the Amalgam Universe. This universe had its own unique history, which was an amalgamation of the histories of both Multiverses.
With the help of the hero named Access, the Living Tribunal and the Spectre managed to separate the two realities once more and the Amalgam Universe ceased to exist. Later, one of its heroes, Doctor Strangefate, would return and attempt to revive it; while Strangefate was defeated, it would ultimately be allowed to continue in its own pocket reality, which was given to Access for safekeeping.[3]
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Post-Flashpoint
The Amalgam Universe was revealed to be still existing in 2021 after both the cosmic upheaval caused by Pariah merging the reborn Pre-Crisis realities into Multiverse-1 at the climax of the Dark Crisis[4] and another attack of the Anti-Monitor on the Infinite Realities.[2] Days later, Prime Earth's the Flash (Barry Allen) journeyed to this universe, currently designated as Earth 1996.[2]
Residents
Notes
- The Amalgam Universe is the setting of the Amalgam Comics continuity.
- The Amalgam Universe technically exists in both the DC and Marvel Multiverses and yet strictly belongs to neither one of them, so both companies have given an Earth designation to this universe.
- Marvel Encyclopedia: Fantastic Four originally designated the Amalgam Universe as Earth-692; it was eventually re-designated Earth-9602 in The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005.
- From DC Comics' point of view, The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia originally designated the Pre-Flashpoint iteration of this world as Earth-496 in its entry on Angelica Wallis.
- The Post-Flashpoint version of this reality is known as Earth 1996, which is obviously a nod to 1996, the year of release of the DC Versus Marvel crossover event, which led to the birth of the Amalgam Comics imprint.
See Also
- Characters from Amalgam Universe
- Other things related to Amalgam Universe
- Amalgam Universe's Comic Appearances
- Reality Gallery: Amalgam Universe
Links and References
- DC Versus Marvel
- JLA/Avengers
- Earth-9602 at the Marvel Database Wiki
- The Amalgam Universe at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe