Deathmate

Deathmate Prologue, art by Jim Lee and Bob Layton.

Deathmate is a six-part comic book crossover between Valiant Comics and Image Comics published in 1993–94. The series is remembered for its negative impact on comic book retailers and the industry as a whole due to its late, over-ordered but poorly-selling books.[1]

Comics historian Jason Sacks described it as the first major comic universe crossover since the Marvel Comics / DC Comics crossover The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans was published in 1982.[1]

The plot revolved around a chance interdimensional meeting of two characters, Solar from Valiant and Void from Image's WildC.A.T.s. The two became lovers, but their joining would mean the destruction of both the Image Universe and Valiant Universe.

  1. ^ a b Sacks, Jason; Dallas, Keith (2018). American Comic Book Chronicles: 1990s. USA: TwoMorrows Publishing. pp. 96–98. ISBN 9781605490847.