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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: Comics News
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Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 05:37:19 EST
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from THE COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE, 26 October 1984:

(1) Well, Moriarty scooped me on the new X-Men title, but he didn't mention
    that HAWKEYE AND THE WEST COAST AVENGERS are getting their own book. It
    will be written by Steve Englehart and probably drawn by Al Milgrom. If
    Milgrom *does* draw the book (which isn't certain right now), the regular
    AVENGERS book will be done by John Buscema and Tom Palmer.

(2) DC *promises* to have CAMELOT 3000 #12 out for Christmas.

from THE COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE, 2 November 1984:

(3) As reported previously, Frank Miller (story) and Bill Sienkiewicz (art)
    were scheduled to do DAREDEVIL #219-220. This is no longer operative.
    Instead, the story that they were going to do for those two issues will
    be published as a graphic novel.

(4) Harlan Ellison will work on two projects for DC. One is a graphic novel
    adaptation of his OUTER LIMITS script, "Demon with a Glass Hand", which
    is intended to be drawn by Marshall Rogers. The second project is a mini-
    series starring Wally West. There was, if you can remember, an enigmatic
    comment by Marv Wolfman in the latest issue of one of the Titans books
    about how Ellison had called him up with a suggestion about how Kid Flash
    should be handled. Well, Wolfman and Giordano decided to have him put his
    typewriter where his mouth is....

(5) First Comics has gotten a big response to their request for suggestions
    for their team-up cross-overs with DC. The two most popular seem to be
    Batman/Jon Sable [the obvious one, in my opinion] and Grimjack/Teen Titans.
    [I don't know --- I kind of like the idea of The Badger and Blue Devil...]

(6) Aardvark-Vanaheim plans to publish another, bi-monthly, Cerebus book,
    called CEREBUS JAM. Each issue will have two stories, one by Sim/Gerhard,
    and the other one by a guest artist.


from THE COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE, 9 November 1984:

(7) Eclipse picks up some more Pacific titles. They will publish issues 5 & 6
    of SOMERSET HOLMES, which will end the current storyline. Nothing's been
    said about whether there will be any more after that. They will also do a
    one-shot called MR. MONSTER, which will reprint the first installment of
    the three-part story (from VANGUARD ILLUSTRATED), plus the previously
    unpublished parts 2 & 3. They also intend to publish the TWISTED TALES and
    ALIEN WORLDS material that's already been written and drawn, probably pub-
    lishing two issues of each title, though ALIEN WORLDS will also contain
    some material done for the second issue of PATHWAYS TO FANTASY.

**********

WARNING!!! WARNING!! DON'T PANIC! JOKE AHEAD! DON'T PANIC! WARNING!! WARNING!!

A sign at my local comics shop says that Pacific Comics is offically kaput.
Just to lighten up things, though, it also had a marvelous gag:

"Marvel Comics goes bankrupt! Jim Shooter commits suicide!"

Then goes on to say what other publishers have picked up rights for which
Marvel comics. Some examples that I can remember:

First Comics picks up NEW MUTANTS & FANTASTIC FOUR. Watch for an AMERICAN
FLAGG!/NEW MUTANTS team-up.

DC takes on THE AVENGERS and THOR. The Avengers to become the even newer
new Justice League of America.

Comico picks up POWER PACK, as the kids are orphaned and adopted by Evangeline.


Nobody seems to want the X-Men, though....


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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