Real
Name: Unrevealed COMBO MAN
Real
Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Alternate reality reanimated composite of superhuman corpses
Occupation: Weapon
Group Membership: Amalgams
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Ava Quinn
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: The Powerhouse
First Appearance: Crossover#4 (Image Comics, February 2021)
Powers/Abilities: Unrevealed, but likely similar to his alternate reality counterpart.
Height: Unrevealed
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Green
History:
(Crossover#1 - BTS) - In an alternate reality far across the Omniverse
from Earth-616, and even from its multiverse, there was a version of
Earth that had no native superhumans. However on January 11th 2017 a
reality bubble containing a futuristic city full of battling superhumans
appeared in Denver, Colorado, the resultant shockwave alone instantly
destroying the surrounding city. Surviving eye witnesses identified many
supposedly fictional superheroes from multiple companies (and thus
realities) among the combatants. A few months into the Crossover, as the
press dubbed it, one of the supers...
(Crossover#3 (fb) - BTS) - Doctor Blaqk of the Paybacks,...
(Crossover#1 - BTS) - raised a
forcefield around the site, containing the worst of the problem. The
U.S. government cracked down on any superhumans found outside, and in a
move largely supported by the public they banned new superhero comics.
(Crossover#2 - BTS) - While most of the battling supers
were inside the Dome when it went up, a good number were trapped outside
it. The President appointed Nathaniel Abrams Pendleton the Special
Director in for all things relating to "the Event." Under his aegis many
of the supers outside the Dome were killed or captured, the latter
imprisoned in "research and development testing facilities" around the
country, the largest being the Powerhouse, where Spider-Man was among
the incarcerated. Even non-superhumans who had arrived in the Crossover
were locked away, considered potential threats as they might conceivably
develop abilities without warning.
(Crossover#1 - BTS) - This
remained the status quo for the next several years.
(Crossover#2 - BTS) - Pendleton's people
ran experiments on prisoners from other realities, including the
non-superhumans.
(Crossover#4 (fb) - BTS) - One of these was the Amalgam Program, which involved stitching together body parts taken from different superhuman corpses to create composite beings.
(Crossover#4)
- Among these was an Amalgam resembling Earth-616's Combo Man.
(Crossover#5 - BTS) - In the hope of triggering an all-out
war against the supers a zealously anti-supers religious group blew up
the Powerhouse, freeing many of the inmates. The escapees headed for the
Dome, hoping to find a way back inside, while the authorities deployed
first fighter jets and bombers and then dropped in Amalgams. These in
turn were confronted by a loose assemblage of supers, including Madman
and the Paybacks, who had evaded prior capture and had now headed
to Colorado to help the escapees. Battle briefly ensued until one of
Madman's group, a young girl called Ava Quinn, unleashed recently
developed powers that apparently destroyed all the Amalgams.
Comments: Created by Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw.
Strictly speaking this guy isn't Combo Man,
as he's never named, but if it looks like a duck...
It'd be nice to believe that the Amalgam
program only used the corpses of supers who were killed resisting
arrest. However, the scientists would presumably want the freshest
bodies to work with if they hoped to reanimate them, #2 showed
Spider-Man's costumed hand sticking out of the bars of a Power House
cell (and established that many of the captured heroes were cooperative
with their captors, since they were heroes and only wanted to get home),
and then in #4 the Amalgam that the scientists are shown constructing
has Spider-Man's hand too, which does seem to suggest they were
dissecting, perhaps even vivisecting, prisoners.
Combo Man isn't seen among the Amalgams in #5, but it seems likely that there's a good chance he was present off-panel.
The Powerhouse (or Power House the first time it is mentioned) is located somewhere mountainous and snowy, but the exact location isn't mentioned as far as I can see.
Because this guy is from a non-Marvel story,
and isn't even a native of the world most of it is set in, and his
parts could come from more than one reality, we're not going to try and
figure out his native reality's numerical designation.
This profile was completed on 08/07/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary's celebratory event to represent Combo Man.
Profile by Loki.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Combo Man has no known connections to:
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Dozens of Amalgams were constructed from dead supers and later deployed outside Denver's Dome following the Powerhouse escape.
Comments: There are a lot of Amalgams
stored in tubes in the panel this image comes from, but none are
visible enough to have any hope of identifying whose body parts
they include. Of the ones shown here in the foreground, the one
on the right seems to have Thanos' head, while the one on the
slab being constructed has Spider-Man's hand, and reptilian legs
that might come from someone like the Lizard, but I'm not
recognizing any of the other component parts. I feel I should be
able to recognize the head of the one on the left, given that
distinctive mask, but if I do, I'm blanking on the name.
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In this panel with Amalgams in the field there
are again a lot of body parts that I can't pin down. The female
leftmost might have Gamora's head and Klaw's blaster hand. The
pink guy above her knee looks like he's got the head and claws
of a Wolverine variant, while the guy to his right doing the
superhero landing has an arm with chains wrapped round the wrist
- given the coloration I think that might be the Pitt's arm,
rather than Lobo. The guy perching on the lamppost top left
looks to be Gambit, with no one else's body parts in the mix.
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images: (without ads)
Crossover#4,
p26, pan1 (main image)
Crossover#4,
p26, pan1 (Amalgams being constructed)
Crossover#5, p12, pan1 (Amalgams in the field)
Appearances:
Crossover#4 (February 2021)
- Donny Cates (writer), Geoff Shaw (art), Mark Waid (editor)
First Posted: 09/17/2026
Last updated: 08/07/2026
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
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