Comics' Greatest World Archives : The Shared Universe https://www.theshareduniverse.com/tag/comics-greatest-world/ The Internet's Bay Bridge connecting the Bay Area's comic fandom. Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:51:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Dead Universes (part I): Reading Dead Universes https://www.theshareduniverse.com/dead-universes-part-reading-dead-universes/ https://www.theshareduniverse.com/dead-universes-part-reading-dead-universes/#comments Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:41:31 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=259 Originally published October 8, 2013 | Updated April 2026 Reading and collecting Dead Universes might seem daunting. These universes were published decades ago, never collected into modern trade paperbacks, and scattered across thousands of individual comic book issues. Yet they remain accessible and surprisingly affordable. This post shares one collector’s approach to acquiring and reading […]

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]]> https://www.theshareduniverse.com/dead-universes-part-reading-dead-universes/feed/ 2 Dead Universes (prologue): A time traveler finds holes in the multiverse https://www.theshareduniverse.com/dead-universes-time-traveler-finds-holes-multiverse/ Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:59:20 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=194 Originally published October 8, 2013 | Updated April 2026In 2013, we began exploring the death of shared comic universes from the 1990s boom. Over a decade later, we’re revisiting this series. Jim Shooter passed away in June 2025, and the successful Schism Kickstarter, completing his unfinished Defiant Comics story, reminded us that these dead universes […]

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