Earth-9602

The Amalgam Universe is a parallel universe created and destroyed as a result of a cross-multiversal conflict between cosmic beings. It was a combination of Earth-616 and New Earth.

When two entities known as the Brothers (the embodiments of both the Marvel and DC Multiverses) remembered each other's existence, they pitted combatants from their respective realities against each other together. The winner would then destroy the loser (and its own respective multiverse). To prevent this from happening, the Living Tribunal and the Spectre joined forces and combined the two universes together, creating the Amalgam Universe. This universe had its own unique history which was a combination of the histories of both multiverses.^[4][5]

With the help of the hero named Access, the Living Tribunal and the Spectre managed to separate the two realities once more and the Amalgam Universe ceased to exist.

Later, Doctor Strangefate attempted to recreate the Amalgam Universe, and he was then defeated by Doctor Strange. Victorious, Doctor Strange allowed a semblance of Doctor Strangefate's Amalgam reality to exist within a contained vessel and gave the vessel to Access for safekeeping.^[6]

See: Earth-9602 Characters

• The Amalgam Universe was originally designated as Earth-962 in Marvel Encyclopedia #Fantastic Four, but a few years later Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005 #1 changed its number to Earth-9602.
• Within the Post-Crisis incarnation of the DC Multiverse, the Amalgam Universe was numbered as Earth-496 in The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia, while in its current Post-Flashpoint version it is known as Earth 1996, as stated in Dark Crisis: Big Bang #1.