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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2020 22:30:23 GMT -5
I would've liked to see The Prisoner get an official Marvel adaptation of the series. 17 episodes, maybe 17 issues. Anyone know who pulled the plug on Jack Kirby?
What other projects failed to get the nod too?
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Post by electricmastro on May 12, 2020 22:45:20 GMT -5
Ad from Star Trek #11 (February, 1981), which mentions Roger Stern and Frank Miller working together on a Doctor Strange project, but it seems the plans for this collaboration ultimately got cancelled, unless you want to count Frank Miller drawing the cover for Doctor Strange #46 from that same year.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 13, 2020 19:28:12 GMT -5
Where to start.............
Jim Shooter killed JLA/Avengers, after art was already drawn and approved and it took nearly 20 years to do a different version of the idea. Shooter also killed all the cooperative projects, so X-Men and Legion of Superheroes was axed. Not sure, but I thought they had announced a sequel to X-Men/Teen Titans.
Archie Comics was going to release their superheroes in a more mature imprint, called Spectrum, with people like Marv Wolfman involved. They had some conecpts set up, some promotional art and a little bit of story art, before the bosses pulled the plug because they were uncomfortable with a darker, more mature imprint, while they were largely catering to young audiences.
Eclipse had announced, solicited and had drawn a Miracleman spin-off title, Miracleman Triumphant; but, their financial troubles killed it. You can find the finished art of the first issue, online (same for the Spectrum books and the original George Perez JLA/Avengers art).
Rob Liefeld ran a house ad for a THUNDER Agents series that never came to fruition and I believe he didn't even have rights to do it, when he announced it.
The Prisoner was axed from above and Kirby didn't do the first work on it (Kane?) Later, Dean Motter and Mark Askwith did a 4-part sequel to the tv series, at DC That was pretty good and filled with easter eggs.
Image dumped a whole slew of titles when they got into trouble with the distributors over unshipped, but solicited titles out the yin-yang.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 19:43:45 GMT -5
Dynamite had a Fighting American series that never came out. Alex Ross covers:
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Post by codystarbuck on May 13, 2020 19:59:22 GMT -5
Dark Horse only put out two issues of 4 of their last James Bond mini-series before pulling the plug. Think it had something to do with the license holder.
The biggest segment of this subject would probably be the DC Implosion.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 20:06:17 GMT -5
Warriors: Jailbreak was an imagined sequel to the hit movie...where the Warriors and the Gramercy Riffs form an alliance to spring Ajax and a couple of the Riffs from a detention centre.
It was supposed to be a 4-parter, but after #1 came out, it went straight to TPB and that's the only way to read the rest of it.
^ That's the rare photo cover that was available at SDCC 2009 I think...only 1000 printed.
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Post by electricmastro on May 13, 2020 20:30:58 GMT -5
Dark Horse only put out two issues of 4 of their last James Bond mini-series before pulling the plug. Think it had something to do with the license holder. The biggest segment of this subject would probably be the DC Implosion. One that stuck out to me was the material from the previously unpublished Vixen #1 as seen in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2 (Fall, 1978). Art by Bob Oksner.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 13, 2020 23:29:15 GMT -5
If they can put out facsimile editions for Howard The Duck #1 or Man Bat #1 why can't they put out Vixen #1 for the first time in color?
One I wish could've been completed was the Neal Adams X-Men graphic novel he started which Brent Anderson ended up re-doing and completing. Also that X-Men portfolio by Neal Adams that was advertised but never available.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 23:48:32 GMT -5
If they can put out facsimile editions for Howard The Duck #1 or Man Bat #1 why can't they put out Vixen #1 for the first time in color? One I wish could've been completed was the Neal Adams X-Men graphic novel he started which Brent Anderson ended up re-doing and completing. Also that X-Men portfolio by Neal Adams that was advertised but never available. Most of the facsimile editions (and Dollar Comics/True Beleivers) that Marvel and DC do are loss leaders marketing trade collections coming on the market or spotlighting characters who are featuring prominently in current event storylines as marketing for those events. The production work on these is usually already done as most have appeared in trade collections or have been available digitally so the files for printing are already prepared so they can be printed and released with minimal production costs to maximize profits. Something like Vixen #1 isn't colored which would incur additional production expenses, isn't file ready for printing, isn't tied to an upcoming trade or event storyline, so doesn't meet any of the criteria they use to determine which books get that treatment. Howard the Duck and Man-Bat did. If DC was going to do it, it would have been when Vixen was appearing in Legends of Tomorrow and had her own animated series on the CW website and it didn't happen then, so I don't see anything bringing the character into a bigger spotlight for them to do it in the forseeable future. -M
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Post by tartanphantom on May 14, 2020 9:18:52 GMT -5
While it was not from one of the "big two" publishers, I wish that the Crimson Skies comic had actually gotten past the "preview" stage. I was a big fan of the PC game, and there were actual novels published, but apparently the comic series died on the vine after the preview issue. Chaykin had a hand in creating this and is credited as a co-writer, but I'm unsure as to how much involvement he actually had.
God, I wish someone would revive this game for Windows 10.
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Post by MDG on May 14, 2020 9:24:15 GMT -5
I thought this could've been cool...
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Post by badwolf on May 14, 2020 9:38:34 GMT -5
Bill Mantlo had a concept for a series called The Derangers, which was discussed in this issue of Amazing Heroes:
Basically it was a team of people whose mental illnesses corresponded with their powers. A woman named Breakdown who could explode, a split personality...well you can guess. I think there was a guy who was pure rage.
I think they were led by a Doctor Bedlam, and there was a rival doctor who wanted to bring them over to his side. It's been a long time since I read this magazine, and I don't have it any more.
It was going to be under the Epic imprint as it would be rather violent.
I guess it fell through (maybe Epic was dissolved by that time?) and Mantlo eventually used the characters as Alpha Flight foes. One of them, Goblyn (a girl who could manifest her "dark side") ended up joining Alpha Flight.
I think Scramble, another AF foe, also came out of this.
I thought the idea sounded really cool and dark at the time, and I remember being disappointed by their use in AF as those issues were pretty bad.
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Post by MDG on May 14, 2020 9:48:05 GMT -5
Byrne had a team called "Freaks" that made it into the History of the DC Universe portfolio but, far as I know, never appeared anywhere else.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 14, 2020 10:17:29 GMT -5
I still want Redondo's King Arthur.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 14, 2020 10:38:54 GMT -5
It would have been cool if this Starhawk feature had gotten the green light: A few pages of an actual story were done, but they were shelved, and then later printed in a pretty obscure fanzine called Marvelmania Magazine in 1971. More information at Rip Jagger's Dojo.
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