boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) (10/04/85)
> From: sdchema!gino > Anyway, as things progressed, Steve became disenchanted with the way he > was being treated by the people at DC. He had been commissioned to do > a 3-issue miniseries of Madame Xanadu as well as an issue of either DC > Comics Presents with the Creeper, or Brave and Bold, with the Creeper. > [...] > The *blank* and Creeper story became the first Foozle story. It was Superman. > It ran in the first two(?) issues of Eclipse Monthly (which was no > way, no how monthly). Actually, no. It first appeared in ECLIPSE MAGAZINE, which was a black-and- white, magazine-sized comic. ECLIPSE MONTHLY was the color, standard-sized comic that featured the earlist Cap'n Quick stories, et alia. > The currnt story in DC Comics Presents is an Englehart story (illustrated > by Keith Giffen) starring (you guessed it) the Creeper. > > Are these the same story, redrawn and reworked. Did Steve Englehart get > paid twice for writing the same story. The first Foozle story is indeed a re-doing of the original Superman/Creeper plot (try reading it, substituting Superman, Creeper, Metropolis, etc. for the analogous elements in the story --- it's very interesting that way). The recent Superman/Creeper story, however, seems to be something totally new. It doesn't read anything at all like the Foozle story. It's my guess that Englehart really wanted to team Superman up with the Creeper, and since he already used the previous plot, came up with another one. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA