Now That Marvel and DC Are Friends Again, These Are the Crossover Comics That Need to Happen

Marvel and DC joined forces to denote what is definite to beryllium 1 of the top-selling comic publication projects of 2025. The 2 publishers are teaming connected a brace of one-shot crossover specials featuring Batman and Deadpool. That makes this the archetypal genuine crossover betwixt the Marvel and DC Universes successful much than 20 years. Best of all, they aren’t stopping with Deadpool/Batman #1 and Batman/Deadpool #1. Marvel and DC are already processing a follow-up crossover for 2026.

With that successful mind, we thought it would beryllium amusive to interruption down the DC/Marvel team-ups that astir request to happen, present that crossovers are yet connected the array again. From the evident currency cattle that is Batman/Daredevil to the cosmic grandeur of New Gods/Eternals, these are the crossovers we desperately privation to see.

Batman/Daredevil

This is astir apt the astir evident superhero pairing connected this list. And, to beryllium sure, it’s 1 that’s been done earlier successful 1997’s Daredevil and Batman and 2000’s Batman/Daredevil: King of New York. But adjacent aft 2 crossovers, it feels arsenic though DC and Marvel person hardly scratched the aboveground of what’s imaginable with bringing these 2 dark, brooding vigilantes together. Whose yearning for justness is greater? Whose puerility is much fraught with trauma? Who’s the amended ninja? All of these questions request answering.

It should besides beryllium pointed retired that some erstwhile crossovers came earlier Marvel unleashed a existent murderer’s enactment of endowment connected the ongoing Daredevil series. Many of those creators would beryllium cleanable for a Batman/Daredevil crossover. But if we had our druthers, we’d spell with writer Chip Zdarsky and creator Jorge Fornes. Both are notable for moving connected some franchises, and some would beryllium cleanable for the benignant of gritty, character-driven noir that would marque this crossover shine.

Teen Titans/Young Avengers

We already got a large crossover betwixt the Justice League and the Avengers, but what astir their younger counterparts? It feels similar we’re good overdue for a due Teen Titans/Young Avengers crossover, peculiarly arsenic it’s been a portion since Marvel has published a due Young Avengers comic of immoderate kind. Let’s get the pack backmost unneurotic and person them hitch elbows with Nightwing, Starfire, Raven, and the rest.

We tin deliberation of respective large Teen Titans and Young Avenegrs veterans who would beryllium a bully acceptable for this crossover, but nary amended than Rainbow Rowell and Kris Anka. These are the creators who successfully revamped the Runaways a fewer years ago, and we deliberation they’d excel with this superhero pairing.

Green Lantern/Silver Surfer

One is simply a highly assured abstraction bull who safeguards the beingness with the powerfulness of axenic will. The different utilized to question retired planets for his maestro to devour until helium reconnected with his mislaid humanity. Both question the cosmos successful style. There’s a batch to beryllium gained from bringing Green Lantern (any of them, really) and Silver Surfer unneurotic successful 1 comic. We’d emotion to spot the benignant of larger-than-life menace that would beryllium required to trial the combined mightiness of these 2 ultra-powerful heroes. Galactus with a Sinestro Corps ring? Nekron controlling the Marvel Zombies? The sky’s the bounds here.

This seems similar a task tailor-made for writer Tom King, arsenic his Batman tally shows however adept helium is astatine contrasting heroes from antithetic walks of life. King has dabbled with the Lantern characters earlier successful books similar The Omega Men and The Darkseid War: Green Lantern #1, and his lone Marvel work, Vision, surely has america intrigued astatine the batch of King penning different tortured, melancholy Marvel hero.

Naomi/Ms. Marvel

This whitethorn not beryllium the astir evident prime erstwhile it comes to DC/Marvel crossovers, but it’s 1 with an atrocious batch of potential. Naomi McDuffie and Kamala Khan some correspond a caller procreation of wide-eyed, idealistic heroes successful their respective universes. What happens erstwhile you sound down the barriers betwixt worlds and bring them together. Plus, it’s not arsenic if DC has done overmuch with Naomi since co-creator Brian Michael Bendis near the institution and her TV amusement was canceled. This would beryllium a mode of making up for mislaid time.

Bendis and chap Naomi co-creators David F. Walker and Jamal Campbell would beryllium a large acceptable for this crossover series. Alternatively, we surely wouldn’t caput seeing Ms. Marvel co-creators G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona reunite for a caller escapade featuring Kamala.

Wonder Woman/Thor

What happens erstwhile gods collide? We get a large crossover comic. Wonder Woman and Thor whitethorn person been large players successful 2003’s JLA/Avengers, but there’s a batch much imaginable to beryllium recovered successful digging into the dynamic betwixt these 2 heroes. They’d astir apt get on great, erstwhile Diana gets past the Odinson’s occasionally boorish behavior. And similar with Green Lantern/Silver Surfer, we’d emotion to spot the benignant of force almighty capable to request the combined mightiness of Wonder Woman and Thor.

For this project, we envision a reunion betwixt writer J. Michael Straczynski and creator Olivier Coipel, who truthful successfully revitalized Thor successful their 2007 series. Straczynski had a precise little tally connected Wonder Woman anterior to the New 52 relaunch, truthful this would beryllium different accidental to spot what helium tin execute with the character.

Blue Beetle/Spider-Man

This crossover would beryllium large due to the fact that it fundamentally gives readers 2 for the terms of one. We’d emotion to spot a Blue Beetle/Spider-Man bid that focuses connected some Jaime Reyes/Miles Morales and Ted Kord/Peter Parker. What happens erstwhile you get 2 super-geniuses similar Ted and Peter successful a room? How mightiness Jaime and Miles get along? What happens erstwhile you crook Green Goblin oregon Doctor Octopus escaped successful the DCU? All questions worthy answering. Plus, the bid could research the thought of bequest successful a mode DC does truthful good but Marvel historically hasn’t.

This crossover would person been cleanable for the late, large Keith Giffen. Instead, wherefore not springiness the reins to existent Miles Morales: Spider-Man writer Cody Ziglar. Pair Ziglar with creator and Jaime Reyes co-creator Cully Hamner and you person each the makings of a fun, epic romp focused connected 2 sets of iconic heroes.

Hellblazer/The Punisher

Most superhero crossovers thin to travel a beauteous modular formula. Two heroes meet, they butt heads, they enactment speech their differences for the greater good. But each bets are disconnected erstwhile you task into the acheronian recesses of the Marvel and DC Universes. What benignant of crossover communicative bash you get erstwhile John Constantine and Frank Castle are successful the spotlight? This is simply a pairing that could enactment either arsenic Hellblazer/Punisher oregon Hellblazer vs. Punisher? It would beryllium a batch of amusive to spot Frank effort his champion to termination John, lone to recognize he’s stumbled into a supernatural satellite helium can’t statesman to understand.

Given his extended past with some characters, this task is ideally suited to writer Garth Ennis. Reunite Ennis with immoderate of his collaborators from Hellblazer oregon Punisher MAX and you’re golden. Alternatively, John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead successful America creators Si Spurrier and Aaron Campbell could astir apt enactment wonders with this pairing.

New Gods/Eternals

Jack Kirby was truly cooking with state erstwhile helium created the Fourth World Saga astatine DC and The Eternals astatine Marvel. These 2 franchises stock a batch successful common, dealing arsenic they bash with cosmic abstraction gods and conflicts stretching backmost implicit milennia. The 2 franchises are practically begging to travel unneurotic for 1 epic sci-fi mash-up. Just deliberation of the possibilities erstwhile you bring Darkseid and Thanos together...

Sadly, Kirby himself is nary longer astir to marque that crossover a reality, but the teams down the astir caller Eternals and New Gods comics could surely enactment wonders with the premise. Either reunite Eternals writer Kieron Gillen and creator Esad Ribic oregon existent New Gods writer Ram V and creator Evan Cagle. Or, heck, wherefore not fto some teams jam unneurotic connected 1 book?

Justice League/X-Men

We’ve already seen what happens erstwhile the Justice League and Avengers articulation forces. But for galore Marvel fans, the X-Men eclipse the Avengers. So wherefore not marque them the stars of the amusement for the adjacent Justice League crossover? The imaginable quality pairings person america salivating. Can Wolverine’s adamantium claws chopped Superman’s unbreakable skin? How severely would Emma Frost hatred Wonder Woman? Can adjacent Batman marque consciousness of the convoluted Summers household tree? And for a squad arsenic universally beloved arsenic the Justice League, this would beryllium a invaluable accidental for them to larn that immoderate heroes walk their lives being hated and feared by those they protect.

The biggest crushed to marque Justice League/X-Men happen, though, is that it’s perfectly suited for creator (and DC Publisher, President, and Chief Creative Officer) Jim Lee. This is astir apt the lone mode we’d ever spot caller X-Men creation from Lee again. Pair Lee with idiosyncratic similar Superman Unchained collaborator Scott Snyder oregon New X-Men writer Grant Morrison and you person each the makings of an epic crossover for the ages.

Secret Crisis

When Geoff Johns and Gary Frank wrapped up their Watchmen sequel Doomsday Clock, they included a fewer teases for things to travel successful the DCU. Not each of it has panned out, similar the allusion to DC’s aborted 5G initiative. But determination is 1 tease that could, and should, inactive hap - Secret Crisis.

As hinted astatine successful Doomsday Clock’s last issue, Secret Crisis is simply a DC/Marvel crossover lawsuit destined to unfold successful the twelvemonth 2030. As the walls of world travel tumbling down, Superman is said to clash with Thor, portion Hulk is fated to sacrifice his beingness for the Man of Steel. At the clip Doomsday Clock was published, determination was nary crushed to judge that DC and Marvel were consenting to cooperate connected specified a crossover. Now that the 2 companies are playing bully again, wherefore not marque this Secret Crisis tease a reality? Give fans a monolithic crossover escapade whose scope rivals the likes of Crisis connected Infinite Earths and Secret Wars.

Obviously, Johns and Frank are the earthy choices to bring that communicative to life. But assuming they’re excessively engaged with Ghost Machine’s Geiger to instrumentality to the DCU, there’s lone 1 different writer we tin representation astatine the helm of Secret Crisis - Secret Wars 2015 writer Jonathan Hickman. Only Hickman has the knack for combining immense cosmic spectacle with quality play that this crossover demands.

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