From my files:
The header on this typewritten script for a six-page Green Lantern mini-comic is “General Foods Canadian Comics.” I’m guessing it was a custom comic, probably one of a series from the late-1970s, probably a pack-in for some Canadian General Foods product–but I don’t recall the project, nor do I have a copy of the finished mini-comic in my files.… Read the rest
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In 1988, I wrote a 4-issue PEACEMAKER miniseries (based on the original Charlton Comics character, created, written, and drawn by the late, great Pat Boyette), which featured art by Tod Smith and Pablo Marcos, but another deep dive into the files reveals the following proposal for an ongoing PEACEMAKER series that I pitched, apparently after the cancellation of CHECKMATE #33 (January 1991), where the character had been appearing since his reintroduction in VIGILANTE a few years earlier.… Read the rest
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Christopher J. Priest (the artist formerly known as Jim Owsley) is one of my favorite people and favorite writers, a friend since the late-1970s when I was a writing for Marvel’s Crazy Magazine and he was the assistant editor thereof. We worked together on staff at DC Comics for a couple of years, and we wrote for one another’s editorial offices.… Read the rest
From the “Lost Stories” file comes this, “The Children’s Crusade,” a proposal I wrote in January of 1989 for a 3-issue DC Comics Prestige Format Black Canary miniseries that was, according to the title page, to be drawn by Michael Davis.… Read the rest
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Sometime around 1994, I worked with DC Comics editor Dan Thorsland on a proposal to revive the Roger Stern/Tom Lyle Starman (Will Payton) (1988-1992). Having myself been the final editor of that title (I was handed it to run out its time, with little hope of saving it from cancellation), I was more than passingly familiar with the character and his fate.… Read the rest
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Look! Up on the dais…it’s Roger Stern! It’s Paul Kupperberg! It’s Jerry Ordway! It’s Peter Tomasi…and the “Eighty Years of Superman” panel at the 2018 Terrificon in Uncasville, CT, moderated by John Siuntres of the Word Balloon podcast!
(I got the recorder started a little late and missed the first couple of minutes of John’s introduction.)… Read the rest
Back this time with another text story from the British Superman Official Album 1985, one of the nifty hardcover reprint collections published by London Editions. “Time Trap!” was written by Jim Delano and illustrated by Bryan Talbot. You can check out previous stories HERE and HERE and HERE.… Read the rest
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In addition to reprinting a trio of swell 1971-72 Superman stories with art by Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson, the British hardcover Superman Official Album 1985 (London Editions) also featured a pair of illustrated text stories, including “I Was Superman’s Double!”… Read the rest
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As noted last time, short prose stories used to be a staple of comic books but had largely faded from favor by the 1950s. But the idea lived on and appeared often in the 1970s and 1980s in the pages of assorted DC Comic British hardcover, square bound reprint annuals and albums.… Read the rest
Text features used to be a thing in comic books. Not just letter columns or chatty behind-the-scenes pieces like you get today, but actual short prose stories (often illustrated) starring the characters featured in the title. Stan Lee’s first published story was a Captain America prose story in that title’s third issue in 1941.… Read the rest
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