"...Marvel went bankrupt...."

WOW!!! (Again, I say: Jeez, I AM out of the loop!)

As for others, I probably would have had (in no order)...

Scare Tactics - A band made up of monsters. Kinda like Scooby Doo, the band was touring, and would end up on adventures in whichever town they were in. (it was written by Len Kaminski)

The Creeper - It was a great look at The Creeper, as Jack Ryder has had a nervous breakdown, and is recovering and trying to rebuild his life from that of a controverisal hack reporter who everyone hates, into somthing decent. (also by Len Kaminski).

Chronos - It's big mistake was giving us the adventures of the young Chronos, and not his older (late 30's) self who was in the first half of the first issue (and had plenty of back story). For it to have been perfect, the story obviously should have been split between the two (and maybe even the really old regretful self who was in the time city). It just felt like the first half of the first issue through us this great world and great characters with a rich past, and then pulled the rug on us - should have gone the Starman route, where it was more intresting having the characters fill you in on the their pasts, rather than showing the whole thing happen.
(it was written by John Francis Moore)

Druid - by Warren Ellis and Lenoard Manco. Spun out of his Hellstrom series, it only got four issues (low sales made it a mini), but damn is it fun. Back before Ellis got big and decided to go cinematic, he wasn't sure if he'd be around long, and so he crammed every page with as many ideas and cool lines as he could.
The best part is his conclusion to wrap it up in the final issue - utterly hilarious, as he's forced to kill everyone off, and down grade the end of the world threat to not much of a bother at all.
The book ends with Hellstrom burning druids body, and putting it in a dumpster. The last line is somthing like "And nobody cared".
Shamefully, the editor, in the last two issues, decided not to run text pieces by Ellis, but instead use it for the letters pages (I read one of the text pieces Ellis had did on his old, old site. It was good).
Why Marvel hasn't collected his Druid and Hellstrom stuff yet is beyond me. It's not as polished as his tuff now, but personally, I liked him better when he wasn't.
(Ghost Rider Annual #2 rocked my eleven year old world! The hero broke slowly, and systematically, every bone in the villains body).

(Three of my list were all from DC around the same time (also out was the previuously mentioned Major Bummer, and the great Young Heroes In Love).
DC was doing some of the best books in years. However, it was when the industry was at it's absolute bottom out (I think just before Marvel went bankrupt, or just after), and so there was no support for them. I mean Chase was Alias years before Alias!

cheers!

Giffen fans should get their current series, Hero (Squared) from Boom! comics.

NEW GODS and THE FOREVER PEOPLE were both published bimonthly, so they technically had more than a year's worth of issues by the time they were cancelled. Still, they were indeed brilliant.

And, I kinda LIKED it.

THRILLER was a great title.
VERY unique and interesting book that I enjoyed.

I'd add the last Man-Thing series (1997) to the list, but only because I'm a Manny fan.
However, even I had a hard time liking that run!
Convoluted and rambling!

I also remember being bummed out that the title ENCHANTER (1987 - Eclipse comics) was canceled at issue # 3.
Mainly because I discovered # 1 in a discount bin a year or so later, fell in LOVE with it and hunted like a dog to find the other issues, only to find that after # 3, there WERE no more.

And a GREAT indie title;
JAZZ AGE CHRONICLES (1990 - Calibur Press) went out at issue # 6.

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In that case, how about Bryan Augustin and Rag Morales's Black Condor series? I really liked that but it managed about 6 months.

Also Haywire, which actually had 13 issues, was great.

I enjoyed Big Numbers as far as it got, but it really didn't get going before it stopped

And, honestly, Logan's Run.

And I've been known to wax all rhapsodic about that series...now, what was it called? Thriller?

I've also gone on record many times championing Chase, Major Bummer, the Kaminski Creeper, the Helfer/baker Shadow (a masterpiece of black comedy if ever I seed one) and yes, even Beowulf...so here's a few more that I've bored people with:

Gemini Blood: 9 issues from DC's ill-fated Helix line, and the only one I'd keep. Written by Chris Hinz, extrapolated from his Paratwa series of SF novels, and art by Tommy Lee Edwards. Go here to read what I wrote about it waaaaaay back in 2003, it's about four entries down. If you don't want to, that's OK, I understand.

Timespirits: 8 issues. Written by Steve Perry, drawn by Tom Yeates. Imaginative, brilliant, whimsical, clever.

Warren Ellis and Leo Manco's Hellstorm didn't last a whole year either, unless I'm mistaken, and if it did, it only went (that's right, you guessed it) 8 issues!

And Christopher Carlson: Chase has recently become a supporting character in the latest Manhunter series.

Oh, also: STALKER. C'mon DC, let the poor guy have his soul back!