CROSSOVER MADNESS

 From my review of the Rick Veitch SWAMP THING run:

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Here's how the crossovers broke down.

#82-- ST interacts with DC's most famous war-hero Sergeant Rock in the closing years of WWII, as well as with an earlier incarnation of ST's enduring enemy Anton Arcane. With minor appearances by the Unknown Soldier and (in modern times) Jason Woodrue in his regrettable NEW GUARDIANS phase.

#83-- ST flashes back to WWI, and to the Germany of Hans Von Hammer of ENEMY ACE fame. He also meets a younger Arcane, who's been diddling his sister and almost kills his mother. 

#84-- ST takes a back seat to his girlfriend Abby as she deals with her dying husband Matt Cable, and also manages to host crossovers with Adam Strange, Morpheus and John Constantine.

#85-- It's "Go West, Young Thing," as Swampy is enslaved by a Native American wizard, and becomes entwined with such luminaries as Jonah Hex, Bat Lash, Johnny Thunder and his wife Madame .44, Hawk Son of Tomahawk, Firehair, El Diablo, and that short-lived savage superhero, Super Chief. Also, The Demon makes a cameo.

#86-- My favorite of the bunch. as ST jaunts back to revolutionary times, and meets DC's long running frontier paladin, Tomahawk. There's also another encounter with The Demon, and with the once and future Batcave, complete with a giant bat--which gets more or less explained in the ensuing issue.

        

#87-- Swampy witnesses the Fall of Camelot, as well as interacting with Merlin, his demon Etrigan, the villainous Morgaine LeFey, and the Shining Knight. A couple of background figures look like Prince Valiant and Hal Foster's version of the knight Gawain. The issue ends with the Shining Knight in modern times, informing Abigail of his interaction with the time-dispersed swamp-spirit, and then swearing to locate Swampy again-- at which point the tale ends.

CROSSOVER MADNESS

 Small publisher Columbia had one long-running anthology, BIG SHOT COMICS, mixing new features (like superheroes Skyman and The Face) with comic strip reprints. BIG SHOT frequently mingled disparate feature characters on covers, as had many other publishers. But in BS #85, Tony Trent (formerly The Face) married his long-standing girlfriend, and in attendance were Phil from MICKEY FINN, Dixie Dugan, Skyman and his girlfriend, goofy teen Brass Knuckles and his steady, and three characters from SPARKY WATTS.

 

MONSTER MASHUPS #165

 This item from BIG SHOT #79 (1947) may qualify as the most obscure mm here. Two ghosts (named, unimaginatively, "Drakky" and "Franky") try to dodge their witch-girlfriends ("Haggie and Baggie"). The ghosts and witches change into human beings and bump into the long-forgotten star of the four-page strip, a teen schmuck named "Brass Knuckles."

Not only did the author like Frankie and Drakky enough to bring them back in BS 82, he has them introduce Brass to Horrible Horace, Bloody Boris and Gruesome Gertie.

MONSTER MASHUPS #164

 The SUPERMANSION episode "Sympathy for Black Saturn" parodies the UNDERWORLD franchise, opposing a clan of vampires ("the Dracuvlads") against one of werewolves ("the Wolvenlykes"). The two clans also appear in "Saturn's Six," but only long enough to get wiped out. 

MONSTER MASHUPS #163

 JLA #53 features a technically unnamed villain (though two captions call him "The Master Thief") who challenges the League with a bunch of animated statues of folkloric monsters-- the Monster of Leeds (aka the Jersey Devil), the Doodang, the Ring-Tailed Roarer-- plus one folk-hero and his animal-buddy: Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe.

   

MONSTER MASHUPS #162

 Though the monstrous foes of the Heroic Moby Dick get top billing in their only appearance--

-- apparently no one did any screengrabs of the nasty subsea swarm. But someone DID record the appearance of the episode's second big beastie, described as a Giant Man-o-War.

 

RAR #106: ENSIGN WALKING BEAR

 The animated STAR TREK introduced a Comanche crewmember because the Enterprise encountered an ET claiming to be the Mayan deity Kukulcan, so they needed a crewman who could discourse on pre-Columbian culture.