I have heard that Zeck had covers to some of the issues kicked by Shooter. Are there any alternate ones?

I have also heard that Shooter had Zeck trash and recreate entire pages within the books.

Finally, I swear that the cover to issue one was used in marketing posters, but that there were more heroes on the promo art. For example, I remember Mister Fantastic was in the background all stretched out, but that is not how it appears on the cover of issue one. Perhaps I should go thru my OLD Marvel Age books and see what I can uncover.

Thanks for your time!

- Scott

But in that event, would they keep promising it in the Jones/Barreto series lettercolumn (which they in fact did)? The logical presumption here is that DC was negotiating with Conde Nast (or whoever controlled The Shadow at that time) to do the special, but were ultimately unsuccessful. Maybe---and this is sheer speculation on my part, I freely admit---DC lost the rights because the owners were dead set against THAT version, but the comics company wouldn't quit asking for clearance to finish it off (that is, when the license came up for renewal, the owners wouldn't consider it).

“We ran nine episodes in Epic Illustrated and it still wasn’t enough to save the book,” Byrne remembers, ...
Gee, despite the presense of a superhero story (if you allow Galactus as a "superhero") and a superhero creator, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction folded. If only they could've gotten John Forte to do a Legion of Super-Heroes story, that would've saved it for sure! (Sorry, my scarasm-controller seems busted today)

DanCJ: Agreed - I'm sure DC gave Jones/Barreto clear instruction to keep it non-weird. In other words, I think what "got in the way" of resolving the earlier series was DC's sense of cutting their losses. (Timing is Everything - I'll bet Karen Berger would've run the story resolution as a Vertigo title!)

I should have stated: "As of the issue that the finale had been explicitly said....," as that was the actual event, and therefore it seems that ONLY one story was left unseen. That I missed THAT---it's just WRONG--in my proofreading amazes me. Sorry.

Michael Hoskin: : "...the Dominic Fortune story that was published in Marvel Premiere #56 [may have been the promised finale to the Hulk! back-up series]...." There's never been any doubt in my mind that it was an unfinished story left over from the original fling with the character in Marvel's b/w line back in 1974 and '75. Note that Len Wein gets plot credit on it, instead of DF--in--Hulk! writer Denny O'Neil, and Wein was the writer of the first published DF story in Marvel Preview #2 (backing up the first Punisher solo story). Editor Archie Goodwin's inside--covers text piece for the Marvel Super Action one--shot (Punny again in the lead slot) indicated that Len and Howard Chaykin had conceived and abandoned another premise before Howie did the story published therein by himself. Also, the Los Angeles based Dom moved to New York for The Hulk! run, so the California locale for the MP story also indicates it isn't the one promised in Hulk! I've wondered since I first read it if the character Dum Dum Dugan (of Sgt. Fury fame, of course) in it was changed in David Michelinie's scripting and Terry Austin's inking from a generic circus character in Wein's plot and Chaykin's pencils, which had been lying on a Marvel office shelf for a few years (I surmise). And the Hulk! stories were fully painted, too, a further contradiction. It was a nice thought anyway, Michael. Thanks for trying (I hope that last didn't sound sarcastic; I didn't mean it that way at all, but in proofreading, it occurred to me that it might come across that way, hence this disclaimer/apology).

Matt Wulf-- It was Scott Lobdell (not Kelly) who intended for Bastion to be a figurehead for humanity (specifically anti-mutant humanity) the way that Xavier and Magneto each served as figureheads within the mutant groups.

MH

Galactus: The End

Wonder if John would do it, and Marvel would put it out?

That isn't really Wolverine, but an animated statue of him. The story takes place when Magnus is vacationing with Lee Forrester.

"Does anyone know how to pass the first screen in the Hulk Questprobe?!? When Banner was tied to a chair? Never did get passed that and lost interest."

You had to command him to "Fall Back." He'd hit his head, get mad, Hulk up, and break free of the chair.

Then gas would permeate the room (I had to look up permeate, I was 6 at the time) and turn him back into Banner.

If you tried to exit the Bunker, you'd die instantly from noxious volcanos that only the Hulk could survive. I could never figure out how to keep Banner as Hulk or turn off the permeating gas.

Poor Bruce. I did spend hours and hours having him punch, kick, stab, pinch, poke, and prod himself trying to get him to stay as the Hulk.

Freaky.

such as chopping of his head and putting it on a robot body.

Considering that, it probably wasn't very easy for DC to get permission to publish that special