[Tony_Bacala]

So I read up recently. Apparently Crystar and that universe's characters have been popping up in various books over the last 8 years or so. 2015 Secret Wars arcs, Weird World stuff, part of Battleworld, one arc had Squadron Supreme involved. So I'm guessing that's where the thought came from initially.

I'm not familiar with the comics beyond what Wikipedia just told me tho.

Looks like Weird World is a mash up of fantasy and rando timelines, all the Crystar characters were there, Crystar got jacked up and turned into a bag of crystal rocks, and at some point came back but with one arm. So there's the variant maybe

Still very deep cut, but at least there's a slight connection to something past the 1982 stuff.

Also something I didn't know - Danzig's skull logo was ripped off from a cover of Crystar. Marvel just never did anything about it.