Deathmate Vol 1

Deathmate came a little later... Though, some of it came a lot later, and none of it made much sense.

-- Armstrong^[src]

Deathmate is a limited series published by Valiant Comics and Image Comics. It is an inter-company crossover featuring Solar and various superheroes from the Valiant Universe, as well as characters from CyberForce, Gen¹³, Youngblood, WildC.A.T.s, and Supreme on the Image side.

While the three issues produced by Valiant (Prologue, Yellow, and Blue) where released on schedule, the three issues produced by Image (Black, Red, Epilogue) where released two to three months behind schedule and Red was released even after the Epilogue. Another problem of the entire series was neither publisher and their writers were familiar with the properties of the other publisher, and on top of that the issues were quite expensive with a cover price of $4.95 (for a 48-page comic) while the average price of a comic book was less than $2.00 at the time.