Marvel buys DC Comics in 1984

I have some idea where Genosha, Wakanda, Themyscira and Madripore would be on a map, bit I'm drawing a blank on Zambesi apart from that it's centered around the river of the same name.
 
Peter David probably takes over Aquaman much earlier - and given he made some of the biggest chances to the Aquaman mythos until the New 52, it's possible his merger of Namor/The Submariner becomes a part of that.

David is the one who introduced the "Seven Seas/Five Lost Cities" to the Aquaman mythology - this is from where most of the modern Aquaman mythos comes from, save some changes made during the New 52. David benched a lot of the usual rogue's gallery like Black Manta and Ocean Master, and most of the tension early on came from Aquaman's bastard son Koryak, leading a split-off faction of Atlanteans who disagree with Aquaman's quest to unite the lost cities - here that role could be given some much-needed bite by just having the Koryak role played by Namor, playing up his Atlantean roots against "the half-breed".

That could actually be an interesting long-running rivalry in the now joined Atlantis mythos, between Namor, the half-breed raised in Atlantis, and Arthur, the half-breed raised on the surface - similar to how Geoff Johns made Orm/Ocean Master a tragic villain/anti-villain in the New 52.
 
Here's a story that'll change with the sale: The Clone Saga.

No, not the good 70s one, the 90s one. Like I said before, buying out DC means Marvel now has access to Cadmus and Cadmus would be an ideal villain for the 90s Clone Saga.

Basically, the retcon is that Miles Warren didn't clone Gwen or Peter on his own, Cadmus had been funding his research so as to look into ways to clone meta-humans. The original Gwen Stacy and Spider-Man clones were imperfect prototypes of the concept, and the new Clone Saga becomes less a "Who is the real Peter Parker?" story and more of a battle between heroes and their own clones, which does include the return of Ben Reilly as one of Cadmus' hero clones.
 
I'm not sure about the details etc from a publishing perspective, but I'd be interested in seeing how the unified universe develops if we're going with the post crisis merger idea.
 
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