Crossovers Expanded Volume 3
US $29
6×9 , 450+ pages
Trade Paperback Edition
Crossovers Expanded, Volume 3 is a huge chronology of crossover tales in which characters, situations, or universes from a wide variety of fictional works, are linked together in order to form a vast and diverse Crossover Universe.
Compiled by crossover and Wold Newton expert Sean Lee Levin, the two-volume Crossovers Expanded, Volume 3 includes more than 1,000 crossover tales, as well as many timeline entries charting the wider history of the Crossover Universe.
From ancient times, and into the Twentieth-first Century, and beyond to the far-flung future…
. . . When Conan met Wonder Woman; Rocambole teamed up with Zatoichi in Japan; the Lone Ranger crossed paths with Paladin, the Cartwright boys, and more; Dracula’s daughter married a Talbot; Phileas Fogg had an adventure in Ruritania; Sherlock Holmes matched wits with Dr. Caligari; Dr. Fu Manchu gave Dr. Herbert West some eggs from Skull Island; Bruce Hagin Rassendyll combated Dr. Meirschultz and his Lazarus Cabal; Irma Vep dueled with Filibus; Sexton Blake came to the aid of the Count of Monte Cristo’s grandson; Professor Challenger time traveled alongside the Nyctalope; Secret Agent X fought off Murder Legendre’s zombie gangsters; the rookie Green Lama worked with the Black Bat; Detective Sergeant Frederick Troy played cards with James Bond; the Rocketeer was helped out of a jam by Indiana Jones; the Avenger and the Domino Lady battled villains together on more than one occasion; Reed Richards investigated the Giant Rat of Sumatra; Batman and Robin teamed up with John Steed and Emma Peel; Maigret, Ellery Queen, Hercule Poirot, and Kogoro Akechi crossed paths with Arsène Lupin; Doc Caliban and Doc Wildman had a cross-dimensional meeting; the Six Million Dollar Man fought COBRA alongside G.I. Joe; Sludge ran into Carl Kolchak’s niece; Tabitha Lenox revealed her past relationship with Barnabas Collins; the Drood family went to war with the Nightside; Cassie Hack and Vlad encountered the Crow; Repairman Jack fought Madame de Medici and was introduced to a former agent of The Shadow; a Morley Cigarettes package was spotted in Twin Peaks, Washington; the Librarians crossed swords with the Phantom of the Opera’s descendant in Paris; Jack Reacher and Will Trent shared an adventure; Charlie Chan’s great-grandson had a run-in with the Cthulhu Mythos; Aym Geronimo visited Nero Wolfe’s old brownstone; and Joe Ledger encountered Hap and Leonard, as well as Travis McGee’s daughter . . .
With a new Foreword by Keith Howell (pop culture expert and cover artist for Crossovers Expanded, Volumes 1–3), Crossovers Expanded, Volume 3 also includes many book and magazine covers, as well as appendices covering a myriad of alternate universe tales, parodies, and farces which don’t fit into the primary Crossover Universe continuity, and covering the latest references in Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula series!
Preordering: All three volumes of Crossovers Expanded are $29 each, but you can preorder Volume 3 for only $25 (plus shipping). Preordered copies will be signed by author Sean Lee Levin artist/introducer Keith Howell at FarmerCon/PulpFest the first week of August.
You can also preorder a package deal of all three Crossovers Expanded volumes for only $75 (all to be shipped in August)!
Important Note: If you preorder this book, and purchase any in-stock item at the same time (in the same shopping cart), we may either need to charge additional postage for separate shipments, or you may need to wait until August to have all the books shipped together.
Sean Lee Levin’s Crossovers Expanded, Volume 3 is a companion to Win Scott Eckert’s own epic Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World, Volume 1 and Volume 2 (2010), as well as his own Crossovers Expanded, Volume 1 and Volume 2 (2016); it contains contain over 175,000 words of all-new crossover entries and features a beautiful wraparound cover by Keith Howell.
Sean Lee Levin discovered Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton Family writings in 2002; he is a noted scholar and a frequent contributor to online discussion forums on the subject. A lifelong Chicagoan, Sean spends much of his free time reading, writing, and watching a diverse range of films. He has devoted the past two years to identifying, collating, and documenting as many crossovers as possible in preparation for these volumes, which follow perfectly the conventions established by Win Scott Eckert’s original Crossovers books. Sean’s meticulous research will prove to be an essential resource to fans of crossovers, metafiction, and pop culture.