With the upcoming release of the Secret Society of Super-Villains collection with the material which had only been seen by those who had access to Cancelled Comics Cavalcade, it got me thinking. It seems between that and the "From the Marvel Vaults" editions that there are stories that exist out there that haven't seen the light of day. I was wondering if there was anyone out there that had heard of such a story. Back in the 70s there were several which came from the Golden Age which came out like the Wildcat/Huntress story which appeared in DC Super Spectacular # 6 and the Seven Soldiers of Victory story which came out in chapters in Adventure Comics with art by Dick Dillin and Mike Grell among others. There are probably more but those are the main two that jump to mind.
The one that I have heard of and would love to see is what would have been Joker # 10 which would have been Joker versus the Justice League of America round TWO, the first having been the historical JLA first series # 77. I read recently in Back Issue, I think it is Marty Pasko who is in possession of the story.
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Produced but never published? That's a toughie.
Both Jack Kirby and Gil Kane started work on separate adaptations of The Prisoner TV show. Neither of those got beyond the pencil stage as far as I know, but I've seen pages from both projects reprinted in various TwoMorrows publications. What I'd really like to see is a "Graphite Edition" (similar to the one TwoMorrows published of the pencils of Jack Kirby's Captain Victory #1), but I have no idea what kind of rights issues may be involed.
A Superman graphic novel by Barry Windsor-Smith was originally announced by DC in 1998 but has not been published as of 2010. Superman: The Complete History - The Life and Times of the Man of Steel by Les Daniels features an excerpt of this story at the very end of the book...so at least some of the work was done.
He talks about it here and some of the art is shown:
http://www.barrywindsor-smith.com/studio/submedia17.html
One of my dream stories is coming true in June: Wolfman and Perez's previously abandoned Titans graphic novel Games.
At one point, a group of four writers which included Grant Morrison and Mark Waid (and possibly Mark Millar before he was as big as those other two) made a pitch for the Superman titles. I would have loved to see that.
Besides the fact that there was once to be a comic book adaptation of The Beatles' Yellow Submarine movie mentioned in Comic Book Resources' "Comic Book Legends Revealed" feature that never got published?
I remember house ads in the mid 1970s for a (tabloid size?) adaptation of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table over a decade before DC ever started Camelot 3000. Whatever became of that?
And who knows what else E. Nelson Bridwell might have found in the DC vaults that he never got a chance to present the readers back then. As far as I know, as DC's Archivist of the day, he is responsible for the Golden Age examples John mentioned at the start of this thread.
AND JOHN: There was at least one Golden Age (Jay Garrick) Flash story done with new art in an issue of Barry Allen's original run in the title.
The Fiddler one was "Finale for the Fiddler!", from Flash #201, but I think it was a wholly new story. It was written by Robert Kanigher, who was writing for the title at the time, and drawn by Murphy Anderson. Before #200 the title had been doing two Flash stories per issue, and from #202 it commonly ran Kid Flash or Elongated Man back-ups for a bit, so I think it was the first story resulting from a new back-up story policy.
The story Lee had in mind was likely "Deal Me From the Bottom" from DC Super Stars #5, a retelling of a story from (the GCD tells me) All-Flash #22, with new art by Rico Rival.
There was "The City of Shifting Sand!" which was also from All-Flash #22 (My'46) that was redrawn by Edgar Bercasio and included in Four Star Spectacular #1 (Ap'76). That tale featured the Liars' Club and Silicon People in the Gobi Desert. This one appeared before DC Super Stars #5 (Jl'76).
How about Joe Kubert's The Redeemer which never came out or Archie's The Comet which only had two issues out of a six issue series?
JLA vs Avengers! Yeah, yeah, I know, all of the available art has been reprinted in the Avengers/JLA ultimate collection. I still want to see the whole thing...
Teen Titans and X-Men 2 - vs. Brother Blood and the Hellfire club. Well, if it exists, anyhow...
There are a lot of projects that were announced that I really want to see, but I don't know how far they got.
One thing I want to see is kind of what Marvel is doing now, and that's inventory material. Back in the day when writers and artists didn't control their own books, and comics came out on schedule come hell or high water, Marvel had an inventory of fill-in stories to combat "The Dreaded Deadline Doom!" It was patently obvious when these were used, but they were filler stories by established writers and artists, and some of them were pretty good. (Yes, okay, a few were also too bad to be junk, because junk would be insulted... but I digress.)
I would like to see some of those older stories collected. Right now, Marvel is releasing some "Dungeon" books or whatever the damned things are called, but they're pretty obviously recent creations. I'm talking about stuff from the 60s and 70s. That would be great.
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