Amalgam Comics was a publishing imprint shared by
DC Comics and
Marvel Comics, in which the two comic book publishers merged their characters into new ones (e.g., DC Comics'
Batman and Marvel Comics'
Wolverine became the Amalgam character
Dark Claw). These characters first appeared in a series of twelve comic books which were published in 1996, between the third and fourth issues of the
DC vs. Marvel miniseries. A second set of twelve comic books followed one year later.