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Post by MDG on Sept 28, 2016 11:42:33 GMT -5
This proposed spawn - Valeria She- bat team- up was touted at the height of the Image craze , but Neal pulled out to do a Mr. T comic instead. Probably a good financial decision on his part. I can't find any evidence on the internet, but I'm sure at some point in the 80s, I saw an ad (with pre-order coupon) for Volume 3 of Steranko's history of the comics. Ditto Kurtzman's envisioned "big" comics history. |
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Post by Farrar on Sept 28, 2016 12:06:14 GMT -5
I can't find any evidence on the internet, but I'm sure at some point in the 80s, I saw an ad (with pre-order coupon) for Volume 3 of Steranko's history of the comics... Maybe you saw an ad for Steranko's Encyclopedia of Super Heroes? This would've been sometime after the two History of Comics volumes. Per online sources, circa 1973 the forthcoming 3-volume Encyclopedia set "was advertised in many of the early issues of Comicscene/Mediascene, but were never published. Refunds were never offered, unless you wrote and asked for one." capnscomics.blogspot.com/2013/05/coloring-books-by-jim-steranko.htmlmarvelmasterworksfansite.yuku.com/topic/26624/Steranko-Encyclopedia-Superheroes-Volumes-12-3-ex?page=1#.V-v0wfkrJ9M(In the masterworks discussion thread, someone notes that "In Savage Tales ish 3 where there is an article about the Talon project, [Steranko] mentions that his "History of Comics" project, which was originally intended as a single book, had become a 6-volume project. The first two were out at the time (this was 1973) and the Third Volume was in Production.")  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 28, 2016 12:22:45 GMT -5
The 2nd and final magazine sized Spectacular Spider-Man title from 1968 had a full page ad for it's next issue.Something like "Terror From The TV" and it had a picture of Spidey cringing away from a television set I have no idea if this story ever appeared anywhere else  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 28, 2016 13:09:32 GMT -5
This proposed spawn - Valeria She- bat team- up was touted at the height of the Image craze , but Neal pulled out to do a Mr. T comic instead. Probably a good financial decision on his part. I can't find any evidence on the internet, but I'm sure at some point in the 80s, I saw an ad (with pre-order coupon) for Volume 3 of Steranko's history of the comics. Ditto Kurtzman's envisioned "big" comics history. Exactly. I read Adams got paid a very large sum for the T book. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 28, 2016 13:09:47 GMT -5
This proposed spawn - Valeria She- bat team- up was touted at the height of the Image craze , but Neal pulled out to do a Mr. T comic instead. Probably a good financial decision on his part. I can't find any evidence on the internet, but I'm sure at some point in the 80s, I saw an ad (with pre-order coupon) for Volume 3 of Steranko's history of the comics. Ditto Kurtzman's envisioned "big" comics history. Exactly. I read Adams got paid a very large sum for the T book. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 28, 2016 14:22:49 GMT -5
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Post by RikerDonegal on Sept 28, 2016 16:35:06 GMT -5
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Post by Farrar on Sept 28, 2016 21:10:30 GMT -5
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Post by zilch on Sept 28, 2016 22:32:41 GMT -5
Still waiting for "Legion of the Strange"....
... and a good indication of what the Stern/Miller Doc Strange would have been like, read the Spider-Man Annual with the "Bend Sinister" story... good stuff, Maynard!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 28, 2016 22:48:22 GMT -5
For over a decade, Neal Adams has been touting his upcoming Graphic Novel that would blow the minds of everyone around the world. He's been on talk shows, given lectures and created YouTube videos about what he will intends to prove in his book Still waiting for the book Here's a video he made and one of hundreds of links to articles that debunk his theory goodmath.scientopia.org/2010/09/21/the-return-of-a-classic-neal-adams-bad-physics/ |
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Post by berkley on Sept 28, 2016 23:02:07 GMT -5
Of course the earth is growing - how else would it be able to hold Neal Adams's ever-expanding ego?
I was looking forward to that Frank Miller Doctor Strange at the time. I still like his then-current style more than the later DD stuff, when he was just doing layouts and Klaus Jansen was more or less drawing the book.
In hindsight, it might have been interesting if Miller had been the writer on Doctor Strange as well: presumably he would have written it as a hard-boiled detective series, since that's what he did with most things, which could possibly have been a workable twist on the character.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Sept 29, 2016 10:57:55 GMT -5
Gil Kane had an aborted DC project called Killing Machine. linkAt least two issues of Aztec Ace volume 2 by Doug Moench and an artist named Doug Heinlein were solicited by Eclipse in 1992. Diamond Previews ran a full page ad for the first issue with the line "Back from the future" but the comic was never published, perhaps because dealers preferred to tie up their money in the Image comics that launcned around that time. At least one issue of a Captain Britain comic was solicited but not published circa 1994. I think the writer was Dan Abnett and the artist was Andrew Currie. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 29, 2016 11:59:39 GMT -5
This is the first thing that popped into my mind after seeing the thread title. I've been reading some 1970s Marvel books in the last week or so - Machine Man and Devil Dinosaur - and I saw this ad. I remember seeing this ad in the late 1970s and thinking "That will be so cool!" And I never thought about it again until the last year or so when I saw somebody (maybe at this site) talking about the project and why it never happened. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2016 12:29:18 GMT -5
I recall a half page ad from the 70s for DC Comic's Vixen. She was perched atop a building in the classic yellow and white suit. Her comic never happened, but I think what issues were produced may have been in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade?
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Post by Ozymandias on Sept 29, 2016 12:42:39 GMT -5
I never thought about it again until the last year or so when I saw somebody (maybe at this site) talking about the project and why it never happened. Any reasonable explanation? |
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