Talk:Amalgam Comics

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Could someone please add more info to the books section, for example info on the second wave of comics. And could someone please give the superhero name of Ororo Munroe in Amalgam? --Jamdav86 09:13, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

I just clicked on the newly-added French version. It has some useful info in it, so could someone please incorporate it into the english version? --Jamdav86 16:26, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

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I made a larger, Vectorized version of the Amalgam logo yesterday. You're welcome to use it, but then again, I'm not positive what the image policy is here. Just know that if you want to use this (or tell me to fix something so you can) feel free. http://qwilman.com/misc/amalgamvector.gif 71.228.134.136 17:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Is it really necessary to have a complete list of Amalgam characters in the article? Because there is a list available here, and as you can see, it isn't short. --Pc13 12:49, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't really understand the problem. If the article get's too long we can still split the list and move it to a seperate article. And the fact that information is already available at another place really shouldn't be a criteria for inclusion in Wiki. --Fritz S. (Talk) 17:05, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Suggest merge of Terra-X into Amalgam Comics.

Suggest merge of Terra-X into Amalgam Comics. Per WP:FICT, fictional characters have to have a reasonably high level of notability to get their own articles. Examples are Superman and Anakin Skywalker. Terra-X needs to level up quite a bit to reach that level. --John Nagle 06:11, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose The Amalgam Comics entry is not structured in such a way that merging makes sense. It would detract from the Amalgam entry in style and lead to it becoming a catch-all article. Plenty of other Amalgam Comics characters have their own article and I'd like to know why John Nagle picked Terra-X out of that list before I could even consider it. CovenantD 13:58, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Most of those characters don't meet the WP:FICT criteria for notability: Non-notable minor characters (and places, concepts, etc.) in a work of fiction should be merged with short descriptions into a "List of characters." This list should reside in the article relating to the work itself, unless either becomes long, in which case a separate article for the list is good practice. The list(s) should contain all characters, races, places, etc. from the work of fiction, with links to those that have their own articles. The Terra-X article only has three sentences of character-specific material; that's a good paragraph for a merged article. For a good example of such an article, see List of Mavericks. That's far more readable than a big collection of tiny articles. Good pictures, too. --John Nagle 05:59, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

• Comment I think it would make much more sense to merge all the X-Patrol characters into that article. --Fritz S. (Talk) 16:03, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

It looks like somebody spent a lot of time in the last day or two creating individual pages for many Amalgam Comics characters from that article. You should talk to that person about it. CovenantD 16:06, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

• I (Crablogger) have spent a long time setting up all the X-Patrol pages, including Terra-X. If you're going to merge them all into Amalgam Comics, then what would be the point? The team itself has enough information to stand in its' own thread, and I fail to see what good a merger will do. You haven't merged Super-Soldier or the Judgement League Avengers, so why pick on the X-Patrol?

I think it would make sense to merge all the various characters related to that article into the X-Patrol article (not into Amalgam Comics), as – unlike Super-Soldier or the Judgement League Avengers – they are all very short and I doubt the articles will emerge their stub status in the future. See WP:FICT --Fritz S. (Talk) 09:59, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Merging into X-Patrol instead of Amalgam Comics makes sense. There's already a list of characters there; just fill that out a bit and you'll have all the info from the individual articles in one place. The general idea of WP:FICT is that works of fiction have articles, but individual characters have to be really big before they do. --John Nagle 07:00, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

None of the individual Amalgam characters are even close to being notable enough for separate articles as fictional characters. I'm sorry if people have spent a lot of time on these articles, but that's no justification for keeping articles that fail Wikipedia's standards of notability. They should all be condensed and merged into this article (because Amalgam as a whole is notable). - JasonAQuest (talk) 18:19, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Collected editions

Could someone add what is reprinted in each collected edition? (Emperor 15:32, 12 July 2006 (UTC))

I can do three of the four collected editions, since I own those. By elimination, I should be able to figure out what was in the other collected edition. RobJ1981 01:28, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Here is what's on the collected editions (even though I don't think it's note worthy to list any of them on the main amalgam page):

-Amalgam Age of Comics (DC Comics collection): Amazon #1, Assassins #1, Doctor StrangeFate #1, JLX #1, Legends of the Darkclaw #1, Super Soldier #1.

-Amalgam Age of Comics (Marvel Comics collection): Bruce Wayne: Agent of SHIELD #1, Bullets and Bracelets #1, Magneto and the Magnetic Men #1, Speed Demon #1, Spider-Boy #1, X-Patrol #1

-Return to Amalgam (DC): Bat-Thing #1, Dark Claw Adventures #1, Generation Hex #1, JLX Unleashed #1, Lobo the Duck #1, Super Soldier man of war #1

-Return to Amalgam (Marvel): Challengers of the Fantastic #1, Exciting X-Patrol #1, Iron Latern #1, Magnetic Men featuring Magneto #1, Spider-Boy Team-up #1, Thorion of the New Asgods #1

RobJ1981 18:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

List of Amalgam Comics Characters

Is it safe to merge all the Amalagam character articles into a list article? There really isn't much information on any one character for Amalgam. One list article seems like it would be alot better. RobJ1981 21:17, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I think they should rather be "collected" in articles for each title, e.g. all characters appearing in X-Patrol into that article. See the Suggest merge of Terra-X into Amalgam Comics discussion above. That way there can still be some prose on each, which would probably be too much for the list in this article.--Fritz S. (Talk) 06:56, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

• I looked at many of the Amalgam character articles, many of them hardly have anything. A list page would be alot better. Amalgam wasn't around that long, it really doesn't need character pages (especially when there was only 24 issues total: and several of the characters only appeared 1 or 2 times overall). Many of the pages that do have alot, have information that was only speculated at (in the letters pages of some comics). I really don't think that's very notable. RobJ1981 18:51, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
  • I agree completely. I love the Amalgam concept and execution, and it certainly deserves to be documented here, but this level of detail about what amount to throw-away single-use (OK, sometimes double-use) characters is excessive. "It exists" may be sufficient reason to document something in someone's "Encyclopedia of the OCD Universe", but Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. - JasonAQuest (talk) 18:33, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Earth-9602 vs Earth-692

Has there ever been any reason as to the change in the Earth designation number from Earth-9602 to Earth-692? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Redknight (talk • contribs) 18:34, 15 December 2006 (UTC).

B-Class Assesment required

This article needs the B-Class checklist filled in to remain a B-Class article. If the checklist is not filled in by 7th August this article will be re-assessed as C-Class. The checklist should be filled out referencing the guidance given at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment/B-Class criteria. For further details please contact the Comics WikiProject. Hiding T 10:25, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Cartoons?

Didn't they do cartoons for Iron Lantern, Dark Claw, and Aquamariner? See no mention of it in the article. mcnichoj (talk) 23:39, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

The cartoon advertisements were fake.--174.130.200.24 (talk) 03:12, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Amalgam Comics/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Reduced from "Top" to "Mid". Inter company collaborations are notable, but not critical to the overall history to the medium. Additionally, this event holds less significance since it was not the first such event, did not use signature characters as they usually appear, and was more a sales stunt than anything else. — J Greb 14:11, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Last edited at 14:16, 6 January 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 07:29, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Is Earth-496 the Amalgam Universe in the DC multiverse?

I think that Earth 496 is the Amalgam universe in the DC continuity as the DC Wiki says that the Amalgam Universe is Earth 496. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:1705:535:A440:DFF8:7AE0:D07 (talk) 09:20, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Marvel Parent Company: Disney?

The sidebar lists Disney as the parent company. This was not true at the time of this relatively brief event. Is there a consensus that the current parent company is always the most appropriate one to list?

Reprint

The Amalgam comics will be reprinted in an omnibus edition in August. Stein256 (talk) 00:32, 18 February 2024 (UTC)