Whether it’s Spider-Man encountering Superman while on a photo assignment in Metropolis, or the Stranger Things kids stumbling across the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles during a field trip to New York, comic book crossovers between existing franchises have a history stretching back decades, and are a reliable means of generating fan excitement. In recent years, this attitude has also expanded to the world of toys, giving collectors mashups like Mattel’s Masters of the WWE Universe, which re-imagined superstar wrestlers with fantasy designs inspired by Masters of the Universe.Mattel’s latest mashup is Turtles of Grayskull, a partnership with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that outfits the Turtles with “Eternian-style battle gear,” while the Masters cast dons armor inspired by the Turtles’ shells. But what’s most exciting for some fans is the accompanying mini-comic, which not only features art from one of the industry’s best artists, but also delivers on the promise of a scrapped crossover comic from the recent past.Later mini-comics adapted to the continuity established in the Filmation cartoon, while also developing a storyline that revealed the origin of He-Man’s ancestor He-Ro in the later issues. Names now well-known to fandom contributed to the comics, like Batman: The Animated Series co-creator Bruce Timm, Larry Houston of X-Men: The Animated Series fame, and Mark Texeria, who would later explode in popularity when assigned Marvel’s Ghost Rider comic. Legendary Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai even lettered several of the mini-comics. In 2015, Dark Horse released He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Minicomic Collection, which collected over 1,000 pages of the mini-comics and also presented interviews with the original creators.
Whether it’s Spider-Man encountering Superman while on a photo assignment in Metropolis, or the Stranger Things kids stumbling across the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles during a field trip to New York, comic book crossovers between existing franchises have a history stretching back decades, and are a reliable means of generating fan excitement. In recent years, this attitude has also expanded to the world of toys, giving collectors mashups like Mattel’s Masters of the WWE Universe, which re-imagined superstar wrestlers with fantasy designs inspired by Masters of the Universe.
Mattel’s latest mashup is Turtles of Grayskull, a partnership with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that outfits the Turtles with “Eternian-style battle gear,” while the Masters cast dons armor inspired by the Turtles’ shells. But what’s most exciting for some fans is the accompanying mini-comic, which not only features art from one of the industry’s best artists, but also delivers on the promise of a scrapped crossover comic from the recent past.
Later mini-comics adapted to the continuity established in the Filmation cartoon, while also developing a storyline that revealed the origin of He-Man’s ancestor He-Ro in the later issues. Names now well-known to fandom contributed to the comics, like Batman: The Animated Series co-creator Bruce Timm, Larry Houston of X-Men: The Animated Series fame, and Mark Texeria, who would later explode in popularity when assigned Marvel’s Ghost Rider comic. Legendary Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai even lettered several of the mini-comics. In 2015, Dark Horse released He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Minicomic Collection, which collected over 1,000 pages of the mini-comics and also presented interviews with the original creators.
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