…from The Comic Reader #87 (July 1972):
Well, kinda sorta but not exactly on the “Alex Olsen” tip there. That particular connection to this new The Swamp Thing won’t be established for another decade or so.
Anyway, don’t forget to check out the latest Ant Man news, from The Comic Reader #90, October 1972:
From the July/August 1976 issue, #133, comes this exciting news. NOTE: don’t hold your breath for it.
And finally, from May 1976, #130 of Thge Comic Reader comes the news that Marvel is working with George Lucas on doing comic book tie-ins to his Star Wars movie.
Well, we’ll see how that goes. My money’s on Logan’s Run, though.
I mean, they eventually published that artists edition of The Prisoner. It’s lovely!
These are cool.
It would be interesting to see what The Comic Reader had to say about the premieres of various independent comics: Witzend; His Name Is Savage; First Kingdom; Elf Quest; Love & Rockets, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; etc.
Also, the first issues of: Conan the Barbarian; The New Gods; Howard the Duck; Giant-Size X-Men; New Teen Titans; The Omega Men.
Star Wars: 107 issues.
Logan’s Run: 6 issues.
One success out of two isn’t bad!
“The Prisoner”.
I had NO idea about this! I did read DC’s Prisoner series from the 90’s. It was allright. Really, the TV show had told the story they wanted to.
BE SEEING YOU.
There were actually seven issues of Logan’s Run. You’ll have to race to your nearest comic shop to try to hunt down the issue you missed for your collection.
Had Marv Wolfman been the writer on Logan’s Run, I’m sure that comic would have lasted far longer than Star Wars.
No, what happened was that Marvel’s contract only allowed them to publish a five-part adaptation of the movie. Marvel apparently did not read their contract and began to publish new material with issue #6. They managed to put out two issues of original story before Marvel heard from the lawyers that they needed to cancel Logan’s Run immediately, leaving issue #7 to end on a cliffhanger.
So, the story about Roy Thomas and Star Wars is even more funny. Had Stan Lee gotten his way and not agreed to publish the Star Wars comic because he thought Logan’s Run was too similar to Star Wars, Marvel only held the rights for five-issues of publication. If the comic version of Logan’s Run would have been a huge hit, Marvel wouldn’t have been able to continue publishing new stories to continue the series, like the agreement they had with Lucas, anyway. Marvel really could have screwed up so badly if they passed on Star Wars due to having the rights to Logan’s Run. Well, not that the Logan’s Run comic was exactly making Marvel a fortune, not like Star Wars would end up helping Marvel.
In fairness, Logan’s Run would have never made it past 30 regardless.
@Robert Staeger
LOL!
@Chris V.
I wonder if George Perez actually drew another issue or two of Logan’s Run which never got printed? If so, it would be cool if Klaus Jason could apply the inking and Marvel could make arrangements to publish it.
It seems that Roy Thomas has come in for a lot of criticism recently, but it is important to remember that his pushing for Star Wars arguably saved Marvel.
Sean-Good that you brought that up. I decided to dive into the internet to see if there was any information about a completed unreleased Logan’s Run #8. It turns out that the artwork did seem to be finished. It appears that it had Michael Golden on art rather than Perez though. Archie Goodwin, as scripter, changed the plot so that it read as a stand-alone story titled “The Huntsman”, hiding that it was originally the next Logan’s Run story. It was published in black and white in Bizarre Adventures #28.
OK, well, there’s some controversy over the Bizarre Adventures story. Some sources online say it was the never-published issue #8 reworked, but other online sources say it was a reworked Logan’s Run fill-in story that was done in case the ongoing series fell behind schedule again; as happened with issue #6, where Perez was only able to complete half an issue worth of art, and Marvel had to run the Thanos back-up strip to fill up the pages.
Correction: My mistake. It was Tom Sutton who was running late on art with Logan’s Run #6, not Perez. Sutton was brought on as the new artist of Logan’s Run with issue #6.
So, it would not have been Perez on artwork for a hypothetical (?) eighth issue, regardless.
@Chris V.
Thanks! That is really intriguing information.
Since John Warner scripted the last two Marvel issues of Logan’s Run, it would be interesting to find out if he wrote more scripts for the series which never got published after United Artists (or Nolan and Clayton Johnson?) pulled the plug. If so, it could be cool to see the scripts fully realized–either with the late, great Tom Sutton’s art (if it turns out he drew addition stories way back when) or else maybe with Klaus Janson taking over on full art and coloring.
Maybe it could even be given an Abrams Books graphic novel treatment, similar to John Byrne’s “X-Men: Elsewhen.” For that matter, if Byrne is looking for a new fun project, maybe he could be recruited to adapt the other Logan novels written by William F. Nolan, “Logan’s World,” and “Logan’s Search,” or else build out from the Logan’s Run film.
I know that Adventure and Bluewater Productions had a few Logan series–but their art was mostly subpar.
“Marvel apparently did not read their contract and began to publish new material with issue #6.”
Whoops!