Source: Superman/Fantastic Four GN (1999)
Type: Amalgam/Transformation
There was a time when Marvel and DC crossed-over so often, the characters all knew each other and didn't think to ask how they'd done so. In that golden age of bipartisanship, Dan Jurgens gave us a little something for Amalgamondays...
Turns out Galactus was responsible for blowing up Krypton. You heard it here first! (Or perhaps you heard it in the comic back in 1999 first, but never mind.) Not only did he eat Superman's homeworld, but he tagged the escaping rocket for later use. In the present, Superman has found a recording from Jor-El that reveals Galactus' part in his origin, and so he goes to see the Fantastic Four on Earth-616. The Cyborg-Superman's apparently followed him there, which makes sense because he started out as an analog of Reed Richards. He somehow knows Superman's about to meet Galactus, and he hopes for a tase of Power Cosmic. Except it's Superman who's the chosen one, and Galactus turns him into his most powerful herald yet!
Don't worry, as soon as an inhabited world is in danger, Superman pulls a Silver Surfer (Galactus sure doesn't learn, does he?) and breaks his conditioning. With the help of the FF and the Cyborg (kinda, you just know he tries to betray them all), Galactus is repelled. All it took was Reed reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. Superman's Power Cosmic is drained from him, and the Cyborg is turned into a credit card, and Franklin Richards gets to meet his hero, and all's well that ends well.
Type: Amalgam/Transformation
There was a time when Marvel and DC crossed-over so often, the characters all knew each other and didn't think to ask how they'd done so. In that golden age of bipartisanship, Dan Jurgens gave us a little something for Amalgamondays...Turns out Galactus was responsible for blowing up Krypton. You heard it here first! (Or perhaps you heard it in the comic back in 1999 first, but never mind.) Not only did he eat Superman's homeworld, but he tagged the escaping rocket for later use. In the present, Superman has found a recording from Jor-El that reveals Galactus' part in his origin, and so he goes to see the Fantastic Four on Earth-616. The Cyborg-Superman's apparently followed him there, which makes sense because he started out as an analog of Reed Richards. He somehow knows Superman's about to meet Galactus, and he hopes for a tase of Power Cosmic. Except it's Superman who's the chosen one, and Galactus turns him into his most powerful herald yet!
Don't worry, as soon as an inhabited world is in danger, Superman pulls a Silver Surfer (Galactus sure doesn't learn, does he?) and breaks his conditioning. With the help of the FF and the Cyborg (kinda, you just know he tries to betray them all), Galactus is repelled. All it took was Reed reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. Superman's Power Cosmic is drained from him, and the Cyborg is turned into a credit card, and Franklin Richards gets to meet his hero, and all's well that ends well.
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I edited that one.