yeah, the labeling of creators by company is very much "at the time."

The most amazing thing about that TT/Xmen crossover is that Wolverine isn’t on the cover

He's on the back cover (It's a wraparound).

Either way I can't see it as good business

The problem is that the writer, artist and editor of that issue have passed away. So unless they talked about it somewhere, I dunno if we'll find out one way or the other. But if someone has any info, please, let us know!

In BATMAN #222, the team dealing with the Caped Crusader's adventures decided to comment on a recent phenomenon, the whole "Paul is daed" conspiracy. They did their own version of the rumor that Paul McCartney had passed away and been replaced by a double which the rest of the Beatles alluded to through clues left on their album covers. The story in BATMAN took that on with a fake group complete with album covers that bore resemblences to the covers that supposedly had clues in them like SGT. PEPPER and ABBEY ROAD.

The rumor, however, that's still out there, is that the twist ending to the story was inspired by the writer knowing what a big comic book fan Paul McCartney was. Because of McCartney's interest in comics, the Paul stand-in ends up... Well, saying more would spoil the surprise, so...

are you refering to the statements made by Bendis that DC should get on board his suggestion to write a Batman/Daredevil crossover?

I'm referring to statements made by Bendis (and backed up by Bob Wayne) that DC was on board his suggestion to write a Batman/Daredevil crossover - until Levitz nixed it specifically because something Quesada had said in a newspaper interview...

Have a great weekend,

Beau

To those of you who are disappointed to find out it's a hoax-- read a book. Seriously. If Welles were really planning a Batman film at any point, don't you think it would be common knowledge? I thought Millar's hoax was stupid because it involved one of the most written about directors of all time. You would think this would have come out before it were true.

One thing I remember that tipped off the Millar hoax: He said that the Riddler was to be featured in Welles' 1946 Batman film, when the character didn't debut in the comics until 1948 or so.

A couple of corrections on the DC-Marvel story:

The first Superman/Spider-Man crossover was published by DC, but co-produced by creative talent from both companies. The writing was from DC (Gerry Conway, at the time the only writer to have ever written both characters), the penciling from Marvel (Ross Andru), inking DC (Dick Giordano, with assists from Terry Austin & an uncredited Neal Adams), coloring from Marvel (Glynis Oliver) and lettering from DC (Gaspar Saladino). BACK ISSUE #11 has an excellent article which details all of this, which I just happened to read 2 days ago.

After that, the crossovers were produced by one company & distributed by another. The Wolfman/Perez X-Men/Titans crosover with Brother Blood & the Hellfire Club was to be the follow-up to the first X-Titans produced by Marvel. It was another unfortunate casualty of the JLA-Avengers debacle.

Is it true that there was (recently) going to be a Batman/Daredevil crossover, but Paul Levitz killed the idea for no reason other than his personal dislike for Joe Quesada?

Of course, that would probably fall under the category of:

Maybe I should do a series on stuff like that - interesting stuff but not “urban legends”.

Remember, not everyone reads every comic news site, or even gets in discussions of this stuff online. I'm sure we've all seen at least one "legend" here that we felt was common knowledge, even if it did pass your "ask three random people" test. Today's widely remembered incident is tomorrow's hazy legend.

For instance (yes, this is two suggestions in one post), is it true that the only reason Stephen Platt got his big break at Marvel and not Image is that he randomly ran into a Marvel editor a few hours before he had an appointment to meet with Rob Liefeld?