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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: Comics News
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Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 07:13:15 EST
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All kinds of news from various places (THE COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE, AMAZING
HEROES, THE COMICS JOURNAL, and even MARVEL AGE).

(1) The Alpha Ralpha Roulette Wheel is about to take another spin. Place
your bets, everybody... In issue #23, as the rock group Queen put it so
succintly, "another one bites the dust". My guess is Shaman, to make way
for Talisman to take his place.

(2) Steve Englehart starts writing GREEN LANTERN as of #188. Art will be
by Joe Staton. Some of the artists for the "Tales of the G.L. Corps" back-
up feature will be Steve Leialoha, George Freeman, and Marshall Rogers.
Englehart will also be doing, among other books, a Silver Surfer maxi-
series for Marvel.

(3) DC's next Baxter reprint series (now that Dr. Fate is done) will be
the entire run of Neal Adams' Deadman stories from STRANGE ADVENTURES.

(4) Kirby's graphic novel, THE HUNGER DOGS, has been pushed back to an
April 1985 release.

(5) EVANGELINE (from Comico) has been indefinitely suspended because the
writer/artist team (Charles Dixon and Judith Hunt) could not meet the
deadlines.

(6) First Comics has picked up the rights for ELRIC (formerly from Pacific
Comics). Instead of it being a continuous run, like the Pacific series was
intended to be, First will do each Elric book as a mini-series.

(7) While the two issues of DAREDEVIL (#218 & #219) that were to be done
by Frank Miller (script) and Bill Sienkiewicz (art) have transmogrified
into a graphic novel, Miller still plans to write issue #219. It'll, of
course, be a different story.

(8) POWER PACK #11, crossing over into THE X-MEN #195, will have the
Power kids getting kidnapped by the Morlocks and getting rescued by guess
who. Kurt and Kitty guest star in the first part.

(9) Berni Wrightson is working on a Hulk graphic novel.

(10) Marvel will be doing a Baxter reprint series called THE LIFE OF
CAPTAIN MARVEL, which will basicly be a condensation of his career, with
some new art by Jim Starlin. It'll sort of be a companion piece to Starlin's
THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN MARVEL graphic novel.

(11) It's official!! The contract has been signed for Mike Grell to write
and draw a Batman/Jon Sable crossover for release next summer.

(12) You've all heard about Marvel doing a SECRET WARS II. Well, it's
definitely confirmed, considering that Shooter mentions it on the Bullpen
Bulletins page in the April-dated Marvels.


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

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