As a last-ditch attempt, Access was forced to share his power with Batman and Captain America, whose duel had just taken place nearby, so when the universes were combined, Access made sure to take these shards back from both heroes' amalgamated forms to empower the Spectre and the Living Tribunal, helping them keep both universes' integrity while splitting Amalgam back into DC and Marvel. This is where Access comes in: once a drifter named Axel Asher, he soon learned he carried within himself a shard of the Brothers' essence, and received his powers from his predecessor, a hobo who tended to an oversized cardboard box in an alley in New York City, which in fact hid a gateway between the universes, and became ground zero for the crossover when the gate became too powerful to contain. They were forced to step in like this because, in the cosmic order of things, both universes were supposed to be kept inextricably separate, and the crossovers started to change this. With the final score 6-5 to Marvel, the DC Universe would be wiped out, but the Spectre and the Living Tribunal opted for a different solution: forcing the Brothers to fuse together, creating the Amalgam Universe. With them deliberately starting after all other fights left the contest at a stalemate, the fate of two universes was literally in the readers' hands.
The "main event" of the crossover, so to speak, were the five fights involving some of the top characters of both publishers at the time, whose outcomes were to be decided by the readers. Of these eleven fights, six served as warm-ups (winner in bold):
MARVEL DC CROSSOVER COMICS SERIES
Then and there, they each decided only one of them should encompass the whole of reality but knowing that going head-to-head would just destroy everything again without a conclusion, they decided to set up a contest: each of the Brothers would choose eleven heroes, or "Champions", to represent them in a series of battles, and once the final score is tallied, the losing universe would cease to exist. Because of this, they spent eons unconscious, and unaware of each other's existence, but a series of crossovers caused them to slowly gain awareness of each other again. You want more than that? Okay, here goes: both the DCU and the Marvel Universe exist within a pair of timeless cosmic entities, called "Brothers", who were created together but separated from each other after their first battle, which culminated with the destruction and recreation of the universe they inhabited. Marvel Versus DC (or DC Versus Marvel) was a 1996 four-issue miniseries crossover event, written by Ron Marz and Peter David, and illustrated by Dan Jurgens and Claudio Castellini, that pitted characters from DC Comics against those from Marvel Comics.
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