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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 5, 2019 14:30:43 GMT -5
And Bullseye became kind of a warm-up for all the insane and/or mass-murdering villains to come, especially the newly lethal Joker with his Batman obsession.  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 7, 2019 16:14:05 GMT -5
There was a two part story meant to start with #167 but the comic code held up approval (it wound up running in #183 & 184). Everyone probably knows this, but what I don't know is; would what we have still got #167 & 168 unchanged, just published two issues later than they were? Was Miller working that far ahead (and then why the Ditko fill-in for #162)? Would Elektra have still debuted? Are we supposed to think that #183 & 184 happen now officially after the death of Elektra instead of before they'd met?  |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jan 7, 2019 17:46:27 GMT -5
DD #169 is said to include references to "angel dust murders", but the Marvel Chronology Project places DD #183 & 184 as following on from #182. I think the Punisher featured briefly in #181 & 182 leading into this story. Re the Ditko fill-in, I think Shooter liked to have an inventory story on hand for every series to avoid needing to run a reprint if the Dreaded Deadline Doom struck, and they might have decided to run it to get it out of the way if they realised the creative team would have no trouble with deadlines. X-Men #110 was a fill-in drawn by Tony DeZuniga, despite Byrne and Austin having no problem meeting their deadlines. Miller was lobbying to replace Roger McKenzie as the writer, so we probably would have got Elektra an issue or two later. I don't know whether Michelinie's Mauler story was an inventory issue or was produced at short notice after the CCA rejected the first part of the Punisher story.
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