Which is even funnier since on the cover of 84 Ultimate Psylocke looks a hell of a lot more like an Ultimate Jubilee.

Good work!

First and easiest is you list the "Typhoon" character as a precursor to Storm but list his name as "Tempest" when giving credit (and blame!), even when the sketch of the cropped character sketch you reference clearly lists "Typhoon" as a name in the whole picture.

The other one is a little harder to figure out. You said: "When it came to Storm, the character who became Storm was originally two separate characters.

First, there was Quetzal, who Cockrum took Quetzal’s look and gave it to a character named Black Cat, who could shapeshift."

This second statement is false, but mostly just semantically. Quetzal's "look" was never given to Black Cat. Quetzal's look (her blank eyes and hairstyle only) was ADDED to Black Cat as part of the creation of Storm.

You're missing a character in the entire process: "Trio" from Dave's rejected "Outsiders" pitch. To fix your statement above, it should read "First, there was Trio, who Cockrum took Trio’s look and gave it to a character named Black Cat, who could shapeshift. Then he added features from other characters..."

Sure, Black Cat was a redesign of Trio that VERY closely resembled Storm's costume (minus the cloak) but she needs to be added into the mix not just for her inspiration of Black Cat, but also the Headdress and Gem-clasped cape!

That makes Storm an amalgam of no less than FOUR previous Cockrum creations!

1. Trio's ethnicity, headdress and gem-clasped cape
2. Quetzal's eyes and flowing hairstyle (not counting the color)
3. Black Cat's ethnicity, main "bathing suit" costume piece and thigh-high boots
4. Typhoon's powers and flowing long cape

But wait, there's more! Dave also did a redesigned costume for Marvel Girl - at the same time as he did the Black Cat design - which included a cape attached to bracelets as well as having a gem-clasp. Sound familiar? That adds character FIVE to Storm's original design!

5. Marvel Girl's new (unused) costume's bracelet-attached, gem-clasped cape

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Most additional info found here:
http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/article/showquestion.asp?faq=4&fldAuto=315
which ironically contains a mis-typed reference to your own CBULR page. (CBULR #56 to be specific)

Dear lord, that was a horrible film. I can usually sit through some of the worst chessefests ever made, but when it came to "Abraxis," I most have fast forwarded through at least a quarter of it, probably more. As for the repeated references to the Anti-Life Equation, well, I think Kirby must have been spinning in his grave.

I always felt a little sorry for Van Damme. The period he was worth the most money was when he was paid the least.

But I would like to know more about the various rumors of Jack Kirby and Steve Gerber inventing Thundarr the Barbarian.

The first link wouldn't open, so I was totally lost.

If it did, I'd gladly run with it!

MotU was the last movie from Cannon Cinema as the company was not on good financial footing for a long while. This caused many changes to the script, such as changing the (constantly floating) Orko character into a dwarf named "Gwildor", moving the setting from Eternia to Earth, and trunchiating the ending battle between He-Man and Skeletor.

Cannon Cinema was in bankruptcy by the time the movie was released.

Cannon Cinema reorganized into Cannon Films (great name change, your creditors will never find you) and tried to use their option to do a second "Masters of the Universe" and shoot it back to back with a live action version of "Spider-Man" (were James "Terminator" Cameron's contract was at the time).

Both Mattel (owners of He-Man) and Marvel demanded up front licensing fees for use of the characters instead of the agreed profit sharing. Cannon Films could no longer afford the He-Man or Spider-Man rights, James Cameron's salary, or Dolph Lungred (who was seen as a poor man's Schwarzenegger at the time).

One of the only things Cannon owned of any value was the contract of Jean-Claude Van Damme, who was locked into a 6 picture $70,000 dollar deal. Intintially it was only thought that Van Damme with his limited English and boyish looks would never be a star, but "Bloodsport" proved them wrong.

So the script for Masters of the Universe 2 was quickly rewritten into a low budget, ultra-violent Van Damme flick with no connection to Marvel or Mattel. "Cyborg" was released and became a moderate success (due mostly to Van Damme's $70,000 salary and use of paintball guns instead of prop firearms and squibs). This did not save Cannon films, which quickly went under, or Van Damme, whose early cinema success only netted him a total of $420,000 ("Bloodsport" thru "Death Warrant").

Since Cannon went belly up directly after the distrubution of this film no one paid attention to the Asian distribution were it was billed as "Masters of the Universe 2: Cyborg". Due to the trickle down effect it has appeared as such in a few US cable markets as MotU 2.

Consequentially, Cyborg became a bit of a hit in its own right, spawning direct-to-video sequels. I suggest finding "Cyborg 2" just to see Jack Palance and a (pre-surgury) Angelina Jolie.

There's the same picture(but not original) used in #60 of Urban Legends