Over the years, Marvel has done a ton of crossover comics, one of the most recent was The Avengers and Attack on Titan. It was short, but it was really freakin' cool. Affter doing a little research I came across six Marvel crossover comics that were ridiculous. The comic book publisher sure has some doozies over the years. Most of them offer some good, fun entertainment, while others simply sucked. Check out the list below:

Eminem/Punisher - Kill You

In 2009, Frank Castle and Marshall Mathers team up after the Punisher kills a bunch of Eminem’s bodyguards over a misunderstanding. After a concert, Punisher stops the limo from leaving so Slim-Shady and his entourage get out angrily to make him get out of the way. So what does Punisher do? He just automatically opens fire, killing many of them. After Eminem pistol whips Punisher, and an assassin named Barracuda tries to kill the rap star on behalf of the Parents Music Council, the two team up to fight for their lives. Apparently Eminem had a lot of input in the comic. Here’s the synopsis:

Eminem is performing at a concert, and once the show is concluded, he leaves in a limo. They are stopped by the Punisher who is standing right where they need to go. Eminem and his crew get out angrily to move him out of their way, but Punisher merely opens fire on them, killing many of them. Eminem runs, firing behind him as he does so, but is pulled into a building by Barracuda.

Believing Barracuda to have saved him, Eminem goes with him to a house, and wait to ambush the Punisher. Eminem gets the drop on Castle and smacks him in the face with the butt of his gun, knocking him out. However, he quickly found out Punisher wasn't after him at all, and that Barracuda was not trying to save him, as Barracuda shoots him in a non-vital organ and causes him to become knocked out.

Eminem wakes up on a boat chained to Punisher outside Detroit. Punisher starts to argue with him about their situation. Barracuda arrives to kill them, and throws Eminem of the boat and onto the frozen water, but it does not break. Barracuda looks for his sniper rifle, and Punisher attacks.

Eminem runs out onto the frozen lake, somehow escaping from his chains, and finds an ice fisher. The ice fisher is a huge fan, and says he'll do anything for him. Eminem asks to borrow his chainsaw for cutting ice for a moment. He runs back to the boat and sees Punisher getting beat-up badly. He grabs Barracuda's attention, then chops him up with the chainsaw. Savoring the moment for a minute, Eminem realizes Punisher has a gun to his head.

Punisher tells him he is going to the Parents Music Council for contracting a killer. Eminem floats off into the sunset, and says, "Do me a favor and tell 'em Shady sent you."

The Avengers on Late Night with David Letterman

David Letterman is set to retire in the near future, and in his long career as a late night host he managed to make it into an Avengers comic Book for Marvel. The comic was released in 1984 as part of “Assistant Editors Month,” in which Marvel editors turned over the reins of their titles to their assistants for a bunch of crazy stories, and The Avengers on Late Night With David Letterman was one of them.

The comic centered around an incredibly lame superhero named Wonder Man who would get booked on Late Night with David Letterman if his Avengers pals tag along with him. Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor were all out busy doing their thing the night of Wonder Man’s appearance, so he gets stuck with Hawkeye, Black Widow, Beast, and Black Panther. Things take a turn for the worse when a villainous inventor named Fabian Stankowicz takes over the show to get revenge on the Avengers for not letting him be a member of their team.

Letterman isn’t too happy with this guy taking over his show so he takes out the villain with a giant oversized doorknob prop. I’m not sure why he used an oversized doorknob, unless it was just one of those 60s comedy routine things.

So without “Avengers” assistant editor Mike Carlin’s Letterman fandom, this comic would have never existed.

Hawkeye and Mockingbird arrive at Avengers Mansion following the events of the Hawkeye limited series. They find the mansion empty except for the Vision. Wonder Man calls Avengers Mansion with the news that his agent has arranged an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman if he brings the Avengers with him. The Vision rounds up Avengers Reservists the Beast, Black Panther and Black Widow to join Hawkeye and Wonder Man on Letterman. Minutes after settling in for their interview, the Avengers are attacked by the nefarious machines of Fabian Stankowicz. While the Avengers are busy fighting the machines, Stankowicz takes the stage to talk to Letterman. After humoring Stankowicz for a few moments, Dave knocks him out with a giant doorknob prop. The Avengers soon have the battle machines taken care of and head home.

Spider-Man and SNL

In 1978, the year I was born, a “Marvel Team-Up” comic brought together Spider-Man with the cast of Saturday Night Live. It was called Spider-Man and The Not-read-For-Prime-Time Players! The insane storyline for the comic pit Spider-Man and the cast of SNL against the Silver Samurai and his thugs.

The comic came from legendary writer Chris Claremont, and he portrayed the cast as fearless heroes. Of course, in real life, the SNL cast was known for partying hard and waking up with hangovers. The comic included Dan Akroyd, John Belushi, Jane Cutin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, and Gilda Radner.

The most awesome thing about it is that the battle took place during the taping of an episode of SNL that was being hosted by Stan Lee.

I love that in both real life and the comic book universe, Stan Lee writes comics about superheroes.

Maybe Sony Pictures should make a Spider-Man film based on this comic! I’d watch it!

"Live From New York, It's Saturday Night!" Guest-starring Spider-Man and the Not Ready for Prime Time Players. Script by Chris Claremont. Pencils by Bob Hall. Inks by Marie Severin. Cover by Dave Cockrum and Marie Severin. In a crossover ahead of its time, Marvel's premier superhero meets the cast of one of the hottest TV comedy shows of the 1970's! Mary Jane Watson and Peter Parker have tickets to Saturday Night Live! But before the show begins, John Belushi receives a package that contains a mystic ring. The ring seems harmless, so John puts the ring on his finger. However, someone else wants that ring very badly...the Silver Samurai! When Peter sees an SNL production member being attacked, the Amazing Spider-Man leaps into action! And on stage with the bright lights shining and the cameras rolling, the wall-crawler and John Belushi cross swords with the Silver Samurai!

X-Men and Star Trek

This 1996 comic could just be one of the most geektastically pointless comic crossovers ever. It was basically thrown together to quickly capitalize off of the popularity of the franchises. The comic book was pretty bad, and the story was filled with complicated alternate dimensional traveling and alien politics. I guess it was released at a time when Marvel was slapping anything with an X on it to make a buck.

The book chronicles the first encounter between Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise (during the five-year mission of the original series) and members of the X-Men, who traveled through a dimensional rift chasing the mutant Proteus. This was the first of the Star Trek comic books produced by Marvel for the Paramount Comics line.

Here’s detailed plot summary:

Returning to the planet Delta Vega, site of the deaths of Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mitchell and Dr. Elizabeth Dehner, Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise encounter a rift of psionic energy in space, through which travels a starship of Shi'ar design. The ship is quickly destroyed by the spatial anomaly, though not before Spock detects that it carried seven lifeforms of "near human" nature. A second, larger Shi'ar craft comes through the rift, which promptly fires an unusual projectile at the Enterprise: Gladiator of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, who warns the Enterprise away from the planet and drives his point home by striking the ship's deflector shields, causing some actual damage to the vessel as a result. (Kirk: "Did he just... punch my ship?")

Meanwhile, the seven crew members of the destroyed ship are revealed to be members of the X-Men - Cyclops, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Beast, Storm, Gambit, and Bishop - who managed to transport to the Enterprise before their own vessel's destruction, though they are hiding to avoid detection. As Dr. McCoy discovers Beast and Storm sneaking Gambit into Sick Bay for medical attention, Spock has sensed the presences of the X-Men on board and confronts the remaining members, engaging Wolverine in combat and actually putting him under for a few moments with the Vulcan nerve pinch. The X-Men and the Enterprise crew soon settle their differences and meet to discuss the purpose of the mutants' trip to what they presume is an alternate universe: both they and the other Shi'ar ship, commanded by the renegade Deathbird are tracking the consciousness of the powerful reality-altering mutant Proteus, who has traveled through the rift to Delta Vega and has reanimated the corpse of Lt. Mitchell, who had developed similar powers in the days leading up to his death.

Beaming down to the planet, the X-Men and the Enterprise command crew discover two things: first, that the surface had been transformed to resemble a Scottish village, and second, that Deathbird and the Imperial Guard beat them there, and offered Proteus/Mitchell the use of their ship in return for establishing an alliance. While Wolverine, Cyclops, Gambit, Storm, and members of the Enterprise crew fight off the Imperial Guard and Proteus' physical form, Jean Grey and Captain Kirk psionically appealed to the remaining consciousness of Mitchell and determine that the only way to win was to, once again, kill Mitchell's physical form. Beast, Spock, and Mr. Scott construct a way to direct the Enterprise's phaser energy through Bishop's energy channeling powers, and that, combined with the crew's own phasers and the powers of the X-Men succeeds in ending the Proteus/Mitchell entity's existence.

The battle over, the X-Men commandeer the Imperial Guard's starship and return home through the rift, expressing their happiness that after experiencing a multitude of alternate futures, they finally encountered one that seemed hopeful.

This is one of those comics that is hard to find, but if you really want to read it, you might be able to find it in a landfill somewhere.

Archie Meets The Punisher

I don’t know how this happened, but in 1994 Archie and the murderous vigilante Punisher crossed paths. This was a one-shot comic book crossover that was published under two separate covers. One by Marvel Comics and the other by Archie Comics.

The Punisher was tracking down a drug dealer who happened to looked exactly like Archie. This has got to be one of the most hilarious misunderstandings ever! The Punisher hunting down Archie! Some of the other Archie characters get pulled into the story including Sabrina, The Teenage Witch and Josie and the Pussycats.

This was such an unlikely crossover, and it ended with a tease of Wolverine meeting Jughead, which is a crossover that unfortunately never happened.

The Punisher has made a deal with the government to hunt down a notorious drug dealer named "Red" who is hiding in Riverdale. The deal requires him to forgo his normally lethal methods and apprehend the suspect instead of killing him, since the federals wish to interrogate Red about the drug trafficking on the East Coast. This is fortunate, because Red looks exactly like Archie (save for a prominent set of buck teeth). However, this circumstance also unintentionally causes a lot of trouble for Archie, as various drug mobsters who wish to even the scores on the market decide to do away with Red before he can endanger their business one way or another.

While the Punisher initially also falls for this similarity, he quickly realizes his mistake and henceforth teams up with Archie to save his girlfriend Veronica, who was kidnapped by Red. All parties remain completely in character throughout the issue, although Riverdale's inherent innocence compels the Punisher to allow his true quarry to live, for once. The comic ends with the joking suggestion that the next crossover will be between Wolverine and Jughead.

Guiding Light

I don’t know why, but in 2009 Marvel published a comic crossover with the day time soap opera Guiding Light. Seriously, I don’t know a single person that reads comics that also watches soap operas. Not only that, but it’s one of those soap operas that your grandma probably watched.

The bizarre mini-comic featured the first and only appearance of a superheroine called The Guiding Light. It also involved Spider-Man, Wolverine, and the rest of the Avengers as they visit the show’s town of Springfield in order to meet this new superhero. By the end of the story she loses her electrical-based powers.

The Guiding Light producers even did an episode where one of the cast members gained superpowers in a freak accident. The episode was called “She’s a Marvel,” and I included a trailer for it below. After a 72-year run, Guiding Light was canceled, and it ended with a superhero introduced into their universe. Obviously, trying to appeal to a new generation of kids didn’t work.

Returns from the dead. Evil twins. Secret from the past. Super-powers. These are all staples of the comic book world and now the soap opera world, too! Wait, even the super-powers, you ask? Why yes, and Marvel has partnered with the daytime drama Guiding Light to prove it! In the first-ever comic-soap crossover, Marvel's mightiest heroes (and villains) meet some of daytime drama's steamiest characters. The Avengers and their deadly foes descend on Guiding Light's city of Springfield to determine if a new super-powered being is friend or foe! Appearing in comics as an 8-page back-up beginning 10/26 and written by soap-and-comic scribe Jim McCann, this adventure will actually be the second appearance of this new super-powered character. The debut and origin of Springfield's first costumed crime-fighter will be told on air on the November 1st episode of Guiding Light. As an added bonus, the episode will feature many "Easter eggs" for sharp-eyed Marvel fans, so be on the lookout! This crossover represents a unique partnership between Marvel, and Procter & Gamble Productions, Inc (PGP), the producers of Guiding Light. As fans will recall, Storm's wedding dress, featured in her wedding to T'Challa in Black Panther #18, was designed by Guiding Light costume designer Shawn Dudley. Both Marvel and PGP are thrilled about this opportunity for audience cross-pollination, especially Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada. "This is just one more way that we're trying to reach out beyond our usual audience in an effort to expose those who don't know anything about the greatness of comics and hopefully come back with a few new converts," he says. "And hopefully some of our fans will find themselves with a new habit as well- Guiding Light!" Another great aspect of this partnership is that Guiding Light and Marvel will be cross promoting each other to help drive fans not only to watch the episode but also to pick up one of the comics in a local comic shop.