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Mike Grell's Savage Empire GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: Aquaman II • Black Canary miniseries • Cat #5 • FF Graphic Novel • Miracleman Triumphant • Star*Reach Batman • Warlock #16 & more y 2 0 1 1 F e br ua r .46 No 5 $ 7 . 9 . d e v r e s e R s t h g i R l l A . l l e r G e k i M © & M T e r i p m E e g a v a S . s c i m o C C D © & M T d r o l r a Before the Warlord, there was W 1 MIKE GRELL’S 0 8 2 6 7 7 SAV AGE EMPIRE 2 8 5 6 2 8 1 Volume 1, Number 46 February 2011 Celebrating the Best The Retro Comics Experience! Comics of the '70s, '80s, and Beyond! EDITOR Michael Eury PUBLISHER John Morrow BACK SEAT DRIVER: Editorial by Michael Eury . .2 DESIGNER Rich J. Fowlks GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: The Lady and the Cat . .3 Ramona Fradon recalls what went wrong with the unpublished fifth issue of Marvel’s The Cat COVER ARTIST GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: Whatever Happened to Warlock #16? . .8 Mike Grell Alan Weiss and Jim Starlin reveal the tale of this comic-book cosmic oddity COVER DESIGNER GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: Oh, Say, Can You Sing…?: The Mystery of the Michael Kronenberg Captain America Musical . .13 The Star-Spangled Sentinel—live, on stage??? PROOFREADER OFF MY CHEST: From Savage Empire to The Warlord . .17 Rob Smentek Mike Grell discusses Travis Morgan’s journey into print—and reminds us of his aborted Swamp Angel series SPECIAL THANKS Bob Anderson Allen Milgrom GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: How the Batman Nearly Stepped Out of the Bret Blevins Jason Temujin Minor Mainstream and into Independent Comics . .23 Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers almost took DC’s Dark Detective to Mike Friedrich’s indy house Tom Breevort Jerome K. Moore Fred Burke George Pratt GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: Fantastic Four: Fathers and Sons . .27 Mike Burkey Richard A. Scott Danny Fingeroth and Al Milgrom open the vault with the scoop on this unfinished FF graphic novel Jarrod Buttery Jim Starlin GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: Opening the Box: Pandora Pann’s Lost Adventures . .37 John Byrne Larry Talbot Who closed on the lid on this Len Wein/Ross Andru title? Dewey Cassell Roy Thomas DC Comics Dan Thorsland ROUGH STUFF . .38 Jon B. Cooke and Keith Veronese Six pages of previously unpublished art Comic Book Artist Jim Warden GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: Failure to Launch: The Black Canary Miniseries Mike Deodato Len Wein That Never Took Flight . .45 Steve Englehart Greg Weisman Greg Weisman blows the whistle on his unpublished collaboration with Mike Sekowsky Danny Fingeroth Alan Weiss GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: The Aquaman Sequel That Wasn’t . .53 Tom Fleming Brett Weiss This anticipated follow-up to the Pozner/Hamilton miniseries was deep-sixed Jim Ford Pauline Weiss Ramona Fradon John Wells GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: The Last Galactus Story . .60 There was more to this story than appeared in John Byrne’s celebrated FF spin-off Mike Friedrich Grand Comic-Book GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: The Wolf Man . .66 Database Dark Horse’s Universal Monsters one-shots had one conspicuously missing monster… Bob Greenberger GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: Miracleman Triumphant . .69 Mike Grell Fred Burke, Mike Deodato, and Jason Temujin Minor lament this Eclipse Comics casualty Heritage Auction Galleries BACK TALK . .77 Jonathan Hickman Reader feedback Phil Jimenez BACK ISSUE ™ is published 8 times a year by TwoMorrows Publishing, 10407 Bedfordtown Drive, Barbara Kesel Raleigh, NC 27614. Michael Eury, Editor. John Morrow, Publisher. Editorial Office: BACK ISSUE , Sean Kleefeld c/o Michael Eury, Editor, 118 Edgewood Avenue NE, Concord, NC 28025. E-mail: Michael Kronenberg [email protected]. Eight-issue subscriptions: $60 Standard US, $85 Canada, $107 Surface Alan Kupperberg International. Please send subscription orders and funds to TwoMorrows, NOT to the editorial office. Cover art by Mike Grell. The Warlord TM & © DC Comics. Savage Empire TM & © Mike Grell. All Rights Paul Kupperberg Reserved. All characters are © their respective companies. All material © their creators unless other - Andy Mangels wise noted. All editorial matter © 2011 Michael Eury and TwoMorrows Publishing. BACK ISSUE is a Jim Manner TM of TwoMorrows Publishing. ISSN 1932-6904. Printed in Canada. FIRST PRINTING. Greatest Stories Never Told Issue • BACK ISSUE • 1 by M i c h a e l E u r y Some readers of BACK ISSUE #43 got a few unexpected “Greatest stages and had some internal editorial resistance since they involved Stories Never Told”—incomplete and missing articles, and duplicated other editors’ characters, but the initial concept for Justice League pages! This was an unfortunate printer’s error, beyond our control, 3000 would have included a mix of descendants of original JLA which omitted a signature (a page grouping) and duplicated another members, Jo Nah (the adult Ultra Boy), an alien Captain Marvel, signature in its place. Fortunately, this only affected part of the print and a still-living Martian Manhunter. run. If you purchased one of these misprinted copies, please contact I was ribbed by some editors when they learned, back in early TwoMorrows at [email protected] with your name, mailing address, 1992, that I had placed an editorial development “reserve” on Uncle and e-mail address, and you’ll receive a replacement copy. Sam. The character was considered anachronistic. (DC’s recent This issue, we take a look at unpublished projects, aborted concepts, Freedom Fighters miniseries and ongoing series have proved those and lost issues as we dedicate most of our pages to one of our hecklers wrong.) I’d approached Matt Wagner about writing an Uncle departments: “Greatest Stories Never Told.” Our theme evokes some Sam mini, and his brief outline involved Ol’ Red, White, and Blue’s personal recollections, if you’ll allow me antithesis, Amerika. Knowing Matt’s a moment of self-indulgence to add unique voice, this one boggles the mind. these GSNT footnotes. Too bad it didn’t happen. In 1987–1988, when I was writing I dropped the ball on all of these “Peter Porker: The Spectacular Spider-Ham” projects when I left the company in backup stories for Marvel Tales , editor August 1992, and apologize to any writer, Jim Salicrup and I talked about Marvel artist, or fellow editor I disappointed by publishing a funny-animal super-team leaving those series hanging. book featuring Spider-Ham, Captain More “Greatest Stories Never Told” Americat, Mighty Mouse (who was on occurred at Dark Horse Comics in the Saturday morning TV at the time in mid-1990s, where I landed after DC. Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures ), I was group editor of licensed titles when Underdog, and Courageous Cat and the Star Trek franchise was up for grabs. Minute Mouse. The licensing lunacy Since Dark Horse was the comic-book attached to such a gathering quickly home of many of Hollywood’s most dissuaded us from anything other than a popular sci-fi series— Star Wars , Predator , few phone chats about it. and Aliens among them—the crew of the During my stint (1989–1992) as a Enterprise would have been in good DC Comics editor, I was planning a few company there. I lobbied for a Star Wars / series that never saw the light of day. Star Trek crossover to launch the company’s One was a miniseries titled Legionnaires , ST titles (just imagine a Kirk vs. Darth to be written and illustrated by Steve Vader phaser/light saber battle!), but the Lightle. Lightle’s Legionnaires , which was franchise went elsewhere. Another offbeat being developed before the Chris editorial suggestion, which I made only Sprouse-drawn Legionnaires monthly half-jokingly, was a tongue-in-cheek series, ran out of steam when I took a one-shot, Predator on Gilligan’s Island , sidestep to become then-editorial but my bosses didn’t take it seriously. director Dick Giordano’s assistant, and (Heck, I’d still shell out five bucks to read unfortunately withered away after that. that.) And in 1996, while writing the ’toon As a writer, I proposed a monthly tie-in The Adventures of the Mask , I pitched series titled Shazam!: The Word of Power , an “animated” Batman /Mask DC/Dark to be penciled by Joe Phillips and edited Batman and Clayface TM & © DC Comics. The Mask TM & © Dark Horse Comics . Horse crossover involving Clayface’s by Mike Gold (this proposal was covered by Dan Johnson a few years attempts to obtain Stanley Ipkiss’ mask that might have gone the distance back in Alter Ego ). My take on Captain Marvel was inspired by Tom had I not developed cold feet about writing Batman. Artist Dev Madan Hanks’ performance as an “adult” in the movie Big , but it was was on board and drew the promo image seen on this page. sidelined first by John Byrne’s jettisoned Shazam! series, then by Jerry Thanks for your patience while I detoured off of Memory Lane Ordway’s Power of Shazam! , and also by my own inadequacies as a and down Could’a/Should’a/Would’a Street. I look back at those neo-writer taking on a major character. projects with a twinge of regret. That’s a sentiment shared by During my last year at DC I returned to being the Legion editor, several of the creators who participate in this issue. As you’ll discover launching the aforementioned Legionnaires monthly to stand while reading these “Greatest Stories Never Told,” there are myriad alongside the “Five Year Gap” adult Legion of Super-Heroes title (if reasons why promised projects go unrealized.
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