

Wolverine) and the long-planned Fallen Angels mutant spin-off. the Avengers, and Mephisto vs.) (there is also another "versus" oneshot: Spider-Man vs. The mini-series that we do have are more event driven: three "Versus" books (FF vs. Note that there are no in-universe licensed books at this time, and there are no minor character mini-series along the lines of Gargoyle or Balder the Brave that we've seen in the past few years. Strange and Cloak & Dagger into a single Strange Tales book, Marvel's regular output is really reduced to what you would think of as "core" books. Simonson's Thor and the Fall of the Mutants in Omn.After the cancellations that happened in 1986, this year might have the highest ratio of non-continuity to Marvel universe books.Top 10 Favorite Marvel Villains Created in the 1980s.Avengers Under Siege Premiere HC out this Wednesday!.Marvel Comics for December - 1980s goodness.Marvel Comics of the 1980s Facebook group.1986 - Anatomy of a Cover - Classic X-Men #1.Thanks to the fine folks at, I have the following unpublished (and unlettered) pages to share with you. Following that will be stories with Arnim Zola and the Ameridroid." I never say never.And one more little tidbit, from Comics Feature #1 where Stern discusses his post issue #255 run: "After the first of next year there will be a two- or three-part story with the Red Skull in which the Skull's real face will be revealed for the first - and last - time. I guess the story will have to remain "The One that Got Away." For now, at least. A couple of years ago, there was some talk of having John and me revisit the story as a special project “ sort of "What if Roger and John hadn’t left Captain America?" But then John started having major creative differences with Marvel. But later writers did some things with the Skull that would have invalidated the story. After we left Cap, I toyed with the idea of turning the story into a graphic novel. That was going to be our Red Skull trilogy. But then, other parties at Marvel started screwing John around. A little over five years ago, there was actually some interest in John and me producing all three issues as a special of some sort. If a copy is still around, it's buried in my files or a box somewhere.

"Nazis.I hate those guys!" Those pages were never scripted, but a plot to all three issues exists.or at least, existed. And after that.well, John always wanted to see Cap take on some American Neo-Nazis.

Next up would have been a Red Skull three-parter. The short version is that office politics and hassles led to our leaving the series. We originally envisioned Sunspot as growing huge like the Hulk when he powered up.” It was my idea to give Sam big ears, etc. I made Dani tall and slender and flat chested (at the time, probably the only female in comics with less than a c-cup!). I decided to make her short and full-figured, with bristly wolf-hair, and I came up with her transitional half-wolf look. In other words, I think Rahne was basically just described by Chris as a redhead. I pushed to have more females than males in the group, and helped to decide on what costumes they'd wear (we decided to go with a school uniform), and I created the physical look of the characters. Chris, Louise and I decided to make the thrust of the book all about the school, so the New Mutants wouldn't just be another super-group like all the others. Chris already had the characters basically imagined when I came on board. “I probably could have had a lot more input, because Chris was very open to suggestions, but at the time, I just wasn't that interested in creating characters.
