http://michiganzone.blogspot.com/2006/03/espns-colin-cowherd-borrows-m-zone.html

I spent 2 years doing indexes at the GCD, until the “editors” there drove me NUTS with their incessant interference and non-stop nitpicking. I’ve since cut off contact with them, since they instituted a policy of only allowing “scans of actual comics” (which means, they should be as DARK, DIRTY and UNREADABLE as possible). I can’t work with idiots like that.

Perhaps at some future date, if they get around to making ME an editor, I would then be able to resume the arduous task of upgrading that site. LORD KNOWS, it needs it! But it ain’t gonna happen if every timne someone who really knows what the hell they’re doing and cares as much as I am is deliberately driven away because they’re more interested in “being in charge” than improving the site.

http://www.marvwolfman.com/TITANS%20GAMES.html

The Spectre GN by Thomas/Ordway!

Promised and promoted, but never released (produced?):

NOW announced a number of Green Hornet spin-offs that never came out, and how many were actually left on the proverbial shelf? Most blatantly, there was the third Kato solo, heavily promoted first as a mini, then a GN. They announced a Black Beauty Special (actually a two-part mini) and a Legacy Special (much of the described content here, including the “never before seen first mission” of the 1960s Green Hornet had actually been previously depicted by them, and THAT might have been what got it put on hold). Most surprisingly, in ’93 NOW printed house ads indicating a GH 3-D Special among CURRENT titles, but it was never mentioned in the regular Hornet title’s letter column or other editorial text pieces, and certainly never came out. Again, how much material was actually written and/or drawn?

Also, there was a Barry Windsor Smith (i think) Batman GN that he never finished… because he´s always adding new pages. Is it true?

Corey: In the GCD, wherever there is supposed to be an apostrophe to make either a possessive or a contraction, there is “'” (not the quotation marks, just what’s between ‘em) instead. If you’ve got access to an index that has one, you can go through the process to fix it, but it will show up that way again anyway. Not realizing it wasn’t just in the indexes that I was in progress with, I emailed them about it, and they pointed out it was across the database, which it is. Checked just before I came here and it’s still there.

Early Image alone could be a column for this in and of themselves.

New Mutants was supposed to intro a character named Cougar, what happened?

There was, at one point, going to be another Daredevil run for Frank Miller…never happened.

Byrne’s Image project?

SO many books and characters get announced…then dropped, even after initial sketches or adwork.

I think it’d be a great idea.

WITH PICTURES!

Thanks

According to the GCD’s listed cover dates—and remember we’re talking 1973 here; not much chance of Marvel CDs being noticably off in relation to each other—GHOST RIDER #1 would fall between MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #s 11 (last GR there) and 12 (first SON OF SATAN solo). Neither GR #1 nor MS #12 says “Intro” for SOS, but nor is there any earlier appearance for the character listed. I guess one would have to read the actual stories to get the internal chronology straight. (Until they fix that apostrophe glitch, I’m not submitting anything to them, not even just pointing out omissions, etc.)

My request for such a column would be whatever happened to that portfolio of Anton Furst (designer on Burton’s two BATMAN films) Gotham City designs that was supposed to come out right after that “City Destroyer” story arc back in the early 90s? Was it cancelled in the wake of Furst’s suicide?

I will look for it again Sunday!

Another book that was announced and never released: Marvels 2, by Jay Anacleto. Of course, that’s mainly because his beautiful artwork is anything but fast. So, is the Urban Legend that he’s still plugging away on the pages true? That Marvel was actually smart enough to wait to officially solicit the book until Jay is done?

It’s too bad he never ended up doing Dr. Strange on a regular basis. His take on the character and his mystical world in that annual was very impressive.