Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Comics News Message-ID: <232@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 07:13:15 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.232 Posted: Thu Dec 13 07:13:15 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 01:38:14 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 56 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) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA