10 Things You Didn't Know About The Fantastic Four

5. They (Literally) Merged With The Challengers Of The Unknown

Amalgam Comics was a publishing imprint launched in 1996 that was shared by DC Comics and Marvel Comics. The comics published introduced a universe in which the two comic book publishers merged their characters into new ones (Spider-Man and Superboy merged to form Spider-Boy, Batman and Wolverine merged to form Dark Claw and Captain America and Superman merged to form Super Soldier, for example). In these comics, the Fantastic Four merged with DC's Challengers of the Unknown to become the Challengers of the Fantastic. The four members were Prof (an amalgamation of Prof Haley and Reed Richards), Ace (an amalgamation of Ace Morgan and Invisible Woman), Red (an amalgamation of Red Ryan and Human Torch) and Rocky (an amalgamation of Rocky Davis and Thing). The amalgamated characters took on the properties of both of the characters who formed them and faced the likes of Doctor Doomsday (an amalgamation of Doctor Doom and Doomsday) and Galactiac (an amalgamation of Galactus and Brainiac).