10 Surprising Comic Book Crossovers That Somehow Work

4. Batman/Hellboy/Starman

With Mike Mignola a master of the gothic arts (as in, being able to draw gothic horror exceptionally well), it's unsurprising that his paths have crossed with Batman at some point. The writer/artist penned the covers to the original Death in the Family and drew the character again in Jim Starlin's criminally overlooked Cosmic Odyssey.

All of this was before Hellboy though, and so when Mignola returned to the character in 1999, he got to tell his own story.

Batman/Hellboy/Starman is set in a world where the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense exists in the DC Universe, only with the linear timeline of Hellboy's comics still present. The story revolves around the Golden Age hero Starman being kidnapped by Nazis, and so the Dark Knight and Hellboy team up to rescue him.

It's Mignola. It's Hellboy. It's Batman - and it's both of them punching the snot out of Nazi thugs. What's not to love?