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Last Updated: 18th July 2020: New Images added
Recent additions include images for the first Knights of Pendragon series and more from Bloodrush, with thanks to Adrian Clarke; recently added art from the unpublished 1994 Captain Britain project by Andrew Currie and Bryan Hitch, and the cover for Roid Rage #3, also by Andrew, also with thanks to Adrian Clarke of GetMyComics and Andrew Currie
When Paul Neary returned to Marvel UK in the 1990s, appointed to reinvigorate both its UK titles and create a line of US comics, he rapidly revamped the company structure. On the adventure comics side began his new era with two short-lived reprint titles, Havoc (headlining the Marvel US character, Deathlok) and the monthly magazine, Meltdown (which included a reprint of Akira that, if the title had still been running, might still not have been finished…)
These two titles, which I edited, were stopgaps while he readied his 1992 launches, which began with a hugely successful Death's Head II mini series, revamping Death's Head into a more cyberpunk-like character, which was initially to have been written by the character's creator, Simon Furman, but was scripted by Dan Abnett and drawn by Liam Sharp.
The Genesis: 1992 project built on the success of earlier projects master-minded by Richard Starkings – Dragon's Claws (published June 1988 – April 1989), Death's Head (debuting in late 1988), and The Sleeze Brothers (1989 – 1990), a creator-owned title by John Carnell and Andy Lanning – while editor Steve White oversaw the first critically acclaimed volume of Knights of Pendragon (1990–1991), written by Dan Abnett and John Tomlinson with art by Gary Erskine.
The initial 1992 US titles were, for the US market, Death's Head II (written by Dan Abnett, initially drawn by Liam Sharp); Digitek (written by John Tomlinson with art by Dermot Power), Hell's Angel (which became Dark Angel after five issues for legal reasons, written by Bernie Jaye and, later Gary Russell); Warheads (initially written by Nick Vince and drawn by Gary Erskine); Motormouth (by Graham Marks, drawn by Gary Frank) and the second series of Knights of Pendragon (written by Dan Abnett and John Tomlinson, drawn by Phil Gascoine).
The stories were reprinted in the UK magazine Overkill, initially with their superhero cameo pages excised, until market research revealed the target audience expected a Marvel UK branded comic to have superheroes in it.
Aside from Death's Head II and Digitek the four other books were linked by events surrounding the clandestine evil organisation Mys-Tech, run by a Faustian cabal with a secret headquarters under London's Docklands.
Initial sales of the core US titles, backed by intense marketing on both sides of the Atlantic, were encouraging and it wasn't long before Marvel US wanted more of the same and more titles were released. But after an enthusiastic two years of frenetic activity in Arundel House, London, the US direct sales market imploded in 1994 and the brave experiment was abruptly curtailed with numerous commissioned projects abandoned, all at different stages of development, from full art (such as Dan Abnett and Mark Harrison's Loose Cannons) through to requested pitches (such as Armageddon Knights, a new take on Knights of Pendragon, delivered to Paul Neary in September 1993).
What follows is a list of published Marvel UK titles from that incredible period – some of which I edited – along with a list of known cancelled projects.
I left Marvel UK in early 1993. You can read about the state of play of various projects in this lightly redacted internal memo: Marvel UK Comics Pending – January 1993 (PDF format).
More information is welcome!
March 1992
Death's Head II
Four issue limited series
Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Liam Sharp
Editor: John Freeman
June 1992
Knights of Pendragon II
Ongoing series, ran for 15 issues
Writers: Dan Abnett & John Tomlinson
Art: Phil Gascoine
A revamp of the original Knights of Pendragon concept, but with more superhero leanings Paul Neary felt would work better in the US.
After I left Marvel UK to go freelance, I was commissioned to create a new Knights of Pendragon series, and submitted a proposal, but never had a response from the editors involved or Paul Neary. I've no idea why.
Ongoing series, ran for 14 issues, plus a two-issue mini-series, Warheads: Black Dawn
Writers: Nick Vince, John Freeman, Craig Houston
Art: Gary Erskine, Simon Coleby, Stuart Jennett
Editor: John Freeman
Mercenaries in the hire of MyS-TECH explore the multiverse and plunder it for relics, weaponry and technology that can be exploited by their immortal employers.
The series was inspired by Paul Neary's love of Frederick Pohl's Gateway SF novels, but Warheads is a much darker take on the idea of inter-spatial, random space jumps which of course was also been explored later in the Stargate films and TV series.
Motormouth (later, Motormouth & Killpower) – ongoing series, ran for 12 issues
Writers: Graham Marks, John Freeman, Andrew Cartmel and Simon Jowett
Art: Gary Frank and others
Bad-mouthed teenager Harley Davis gains possession of dimension jumping trainers (a.k.a MOPED units), created by Mys-TECH.
As the Starlogged blog notes: "Harley Davis is distinguished amongst the Genesis 92 characters in that – unlike the others – she did secure a guest appearance in one of the 'proper' American Marvel books. Most Atlantic crossings were strictly one way with numerous appearances by American characters in the UK books but little traffic heading in the opposite direction. The exception was Harley's turn in Peter David's The Incredible Hulk 408 and 409 (August & September 1993)."
July 1992
Hell's Angel/Dark Angel
Ongoing series, ran for 11 issues
Writers: Bernie Jaye, Gary Russell
Art: Geoff Senior, Bryan Hitch, Duke Mighten
After the Hells Angels challenged the use of "Hell's Angel" as a comic title, the character was re-named Dark Angel and a frantic trademarking of the initial "Genesis 92" characters was instigated. The trademarks for Death's Head, Knights of Pendragon and Warheads for use as comics tiles by Marvel Comics Ltd. lapsed in 2000. The characters of course remain Marvel copyright.
October 1992
Death's Head II
Ongoing series, ran for 16 issues. Issues 17-19 were solicited but never published
Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Liam Sharp and others including Simon Coleby
Editor: John Freeman
Issue 1 included a gatefold cover and sold 365,000 copies (Comic World 13, March 1993). Issue 5 was a Mys-Tech Wars tie-in.
December 1992
Four issue limited series
Script: John Tomlinson
Art: Dermot Power
Marvel Wikia Page: http://marvel.wikia.com/Digitek_Vol_1
Four issue mini series
Writers: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
Art: Geoff Senior
Marvel UK's first crossover title, assembling both British and US heroes against hordes of alien gladiators. A UK collection – the only Overkill spin-off – was published in 1993.
More info: www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/battletd.htm and http://marvel.wikia.com/Battletide_Vol_1
January 1993
Codename: Genetix
Four issue limited series
Script: Andy Lanning
Art: Bryan Hitch
Incomplete Death's Head
12 issue maxi series
Writer: Dan Abnett provided linking pages, from a plot by John Freeman
Artist: Simon Coleby drew the linking pages
Colour: David Leach
Editor: John Freeman
Reprinting the original appearances of the first Death's Head from his initial Marvel UK appearances in Doctor Who Magazine through to She-Hulk. Included wraparound linking story guest starring the Seventh Doctor at its climax.
March 1993
Mys-Tech Wars
Four issue limited series
Script: Dan Abnett
Art: Bryan Hitch
A battle fought against the the dark organisation known as MyS-Tech by members of the Dark Guard, Fantastic Four, The X-Men, Secret Defenders and other Marvel heroes including Hulk, Captain America, Captain Britain, and Dr. Strange.
The story played out in the MyS-Tech wars limited series and numerous Marvel UK titles, in this order: Motormouth & Killpower #9; Mys-Tech Wars #1; Dark Angel #10
Mys-Tech Wars #2: Knights of Pendragon #12; Death's Head II #5; Warheads #11;
Mys-Tech Wars #3; and Mys-Tech Wars #4. Some of the tie-ins are a bit superfluous.
Checklist and crossover notes: comicvine.com/mys-tech-wars/4045-50951 – and there is a review of the the series here on the Blood Work blog
April 1993
Black Axe
Ongoing series, ran for seven issues. Issues 8-9 were solicited but not published.
Writer: Simon Jowett
Artist: Pencils by Edmund Perryman, Inks by Rodney Ramos
Over 10,000 years old, Black Axe has become a master of every fighting technique and gained vast wealth. His axe matches the state-of-the-art technology of whatever era he is in.
• More info: marvunapp.com/Appendix3/blackaxe.htm
• Edmund Perryman, aka Edmund Bagwell, passed away in 2017. Our tribute to the artist is here
Super Soldiers
Eight issues
Writer: Michael Bennent (writing as "Lee Stevens"
Art: Andrew Currie Inks: Rodney Ramos
The Super Soldiers were a British based group of government operatives physically enhanced by a variation on the Super Soldier experiments which had previously created Captain America (Steve Rogers) and others. Members included Joseph Hauer, Alec Dalton, Sarah Wilde, and later Xantia, Dragonfly, Gog and the Guvnor. The team eventually found themselves privatised, their contracts bought by the Mercy Corporation.
Several of the team appear to have been killed years later during the Revolutionary War event, though Hauer survived and was recruited by SHIELD.
Although only eight issues of this series were published, work had already begun on #9 and art has surfaced online.
Wild Thing
Ongoing series, ran for seven issues. Issues 8-11 were solicited
Writer: Simon Jowett
Art: Duke Mighten and Brian Apthorp
Two spreads from the solicited but unpublished Wild Thing #11, art by Brian Apthorp with thanks to Rajesh Shah.
Brian now works for the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art. His first published work in comics was for the enormously influential Neal Adams at Continuity Comics, followed by work for Dark Horse, Marvel UK, and DC Comics, including several Batman "Specials" and a Bram Stoker Award-nominated Special of The Dreaming.
June 1993
Shadow Riders
Four issue mini series
Writers: John Freeman & Brian Williamson
Art: Ross Dearsley
The Shadow Riders are one of many teams that resist the evil of the corporation Mys-Tech. They ally themselves with the mercenary Cable to rescue a tortured mutant named Matthew Ryan from the company. However, Ryan has secrets of his own that will come to threaten them.
The first issue sold 142,00 copies.
A number fo short form scripts were created to introduce the characters into Overkill, but although planned for, the series was not included.
July 1993
Cyberspace 3000
Eight Issues
Writer: Michael Bennent & Gary Russell (#1); Gary Russell (#2 – 8)
Penciller: Steve Tappin (#1 – #8)
Inker: Michael Eve and Andy Lanning (#1); Michael Eve (#2 – 8)
Colourist: Steve Whitaker (#1 – 2); Paul Schroeder (#3)
This series (which featured covers by Liam Sharp & Andy Lanning, and Andrew Currie) ran for eight issues and followed the adventures of the 31st century spaceship Sol III, which has fled Earth with a cargo of refugees. It featured guest appearances from Galactus, the Silver Surfer and Adam Warlock, as well as Dark Angel.
Marvel Wikia Page: http://marvel.wikia.com/Cyberspace_3000_Vol_1_1
Warheads: Black Dawn – two issue mini series
Writer: Craig Houston
Artist: Charlie Adlard
Simultaneous to the last two issues of the regular Warheads series, Marvel UK published this two-issue miniseries, written by Craig Houston, who also wrote the last issue of Warheads, working with artist Stuart Jennett. Charlie Adlard gained the commission through positive response to a Warheads story that first ran in Overkill.
The story picks up from the regular series, with the Warheads team on the run from Mys-TECH, but still to portal-jumping thanks to the Warhead Misha having inherited that ability.
Craig recalls Ghost Rider was apparently supposed to appear in this two-issue mini-series but this was changed at the last minute, so was redrawn and rewritten as someone else.
August 1993
Battletide II (1993)
Four issue mini series
Writers: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
Art: Geoff Senior
Death's Head II and the origin of Die-Cut
Two issue mini series
Writer: Glenn Dakin
Artist: John Royle
Die-Cut's origins are revealed as he teams up with Death's Head and Tuck on Mattrica Scorpio during their mission to cure a plague affecting Tuck's fellow synthetic life forms on Lionheart.
• More info on Die-Cut: www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/diecutmuk.htm
September 1993
Death 3
Four Issues
Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Dell Barras
From the Marvel UK line comes Death 3. "Prometheus Unhinged!" Part 1 of 4. Welcome to Los Angeles 2021 AD. Former AIM (Advanced Idea Mechanics) member and head developer of the Minion Project (see Death's Head II #1-4, above), Doctor Evelyn Necker has just created the ultimate weapon, the rogue cyborg known as Death Metal. The only problem is Necker's creation has a mind of its own…
A proposed sequel (see further below) was never released.
Killpower: The Early Years
Four issue series
Writer: Mike W. Barr
Art: John Ross
October 1993
This preview book contains no comic strip, only text and illustrations promoting planned future releases.
Dark Guard
Four issues. Issue 5 was solicited but never published.
Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Carlos Pacheo
Inks: Cam Smith
Editor: Stuart Bartlett
Originally Dark Guard was two books, combined as a special as the series was canned. "I inked the cover of the Dark Guard issue you have shared [see below], but strangely, you have a version inked by someone else," Cam Smith tells us. "I've no idea where that came from!
"My inks were commissioned and in print. Mark Farmer was originally asked to ink the double sized special but didn't have time. I was initially asked to ink half (in effect, one regular book for me, one for Mark). But Mark decided he couldn't ink his half and so the entire double sized book was allocated to me.
"Mark sent me his pages – he had only put panel borders on and hadn't started inking. The deadline was tight. I started work on the project between the Christmas and New Year break, only to find, much to my disappointment, that the book was pulled when Marvel UK got back in the offices in early January!"
Although the Dark Guard project ended sourly for Cam, who was also working on books for Marvel US, there was some good from the debacle.
"I was also working on Hulk with Gary Frank at this time," Cam tells us. "I was also doing stuff for the X-office's Suzzane Gaffney and she asked for suggestions for pencilers for several mini-series. I sent some Carlos P stuff and gave her his phone number . That's how we landed the Bishop mini series (and, subsequently, Starjammers) – Carlos's first US work."
Marvel UK fan Alan Green has unearthed the Spanish trade paperback of Dark Guard which contains several pages entitled "Dark Guard Gold", featuring a mix of lettered pages (in English) and pencil and ink pages, mainly from Issue 5 but some work from Issue 6, too. "It is far from complete but from what I can tell from the text, Marvel denied them permission to print it in its entirety," he tells us. Published here are the cover of the collection and a couple of pages from this gem.
Gary Russell tells us: "Dark Guard Gold was indeed intended to be a quarterly (I was allegedly going to do something for one issue)."
• More about Dark Guard on the Appendix to the Marvel Universe Site
Gene Dogs
Four issue mini series
Writer: John Freeman
Art: Dave Taylor and Stephen Baskerville
Commissioned as a British X-Men-styled book by Paul Neary. Included a guest appearance by Hurricane, a villain from Captain Britain Weekly!
Six issues
Writers: Andy Lanning and Graham Marks
Art: Phil Gascoine
Gun Runner
Six issue series
Writers: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
Art: Anthony Williams/Adolfo Buyalla
An enhanced soldier from the planet of Vassyra, Brell was an athlete before war meant he had to be physically refitted with new power.
November 1993
Four issues
Writer: Glenn Dakin
Artist: Bernard Custodio
The first issue featured Death's Head II.
Die-Cut versus G-Force
Two Issues
Script: John Freeman
Art: John Royle
Editor: Stuart Bartlett
Four issue series
Writer: Glenn Dakin
Art: Pasqual Ferry
Plasmer centred on a shapeshifting, artificial lifeform created by Doctor Oonagh Mullarkey, who used both science and magic to separate the good and evil parts of her personality as a means of increasing her abilities. The good parts of her were placed in a formless protoplasm that developed a life of its own, and became the superhero Plasmer.
Sadly, the character was the subject of a Marvel lawsuit against Defiant Comics' Plasm due to alleged similarities in name, even after Defiant offered (and did) change the name of their project to Warriors of Plasm. Jim Shooter discusses the whole sorry tale here on Comic Book Resources.
A follow-up series of Plasmer again drawn by Pasqual Ferry, the Spanish artist best known for his work on Heroes for Hire, Action Comics and Adam Strange, was also commissioned. This would have seen Glenn Dakin pit Plasmer against the Grey Men, who were hidden away at the centre of the planet, aided only by Captain Kerosene, Jack Smithers and the Ambassador.
December 1993
Death Metal versus Genetix – Two issue series
Writer: Simon Furman
Artist: Paco Diaz (aka Paco Diaz Luque)
• More about Death Metal on the Marvel Appendix
January 1994
Death's Head Gold / Death's Head #0
Story and art: Liam Sharp
Announced as a quarterly companion to the main title but cancelled after the first issue and free #0 preview flip-book special. Issue one had a gold foil cover.
Death Metal
Four Issues
Writer: Simon Furman
Artist: John Royle
Created by A.I.M.'s Dr. Necker, Death Metal is a cyborg composed of the living metal prometheum recovered from Earth-9939.
Death Metal comes to the attention of MyS-Tech during his search for a means to end his own existence, ultimately finding a new reason to carry on. Death's Head II cameos in Issue One.
• More info on Death Metal: www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/deathmet.htm
Death Wreck
Four issue series
Writer: Craig Houston
Artist: Stewart "Staz" Johnson
The origin of Death Wreck, Necker's Minion prototype, who promptly runs loose through time. Naturally. Death's Head 2 cameos in #1 and #4.
Writer Craig says a guest appearance by The Punisher was dropped from Death Wreck #4 and replaced with a "generic viglante" when it went to art – but he he never knew about it until he found a copy five years later, in a comic shop bargain bin.
Perhaps it was felt the Punisher's appearance might undermine the planned Death's Head II/ Punisher crossover?
• More on Death Wreck: http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/deathwre.htm
October 1994
Art and story: Alan Davis
Initially a Marvel UK project, which was transferred to Marvel US when Marvel UK closed down
Wild Angels
Writer: Nick Vince
Artist: Pino Rinaldi
Wild Angels was to have brought two characters into one title – Shevaun Haldane aka Dark Angel and Nikki Doyle aka Wild Thing. The series was written by Nick Vince (Warheads, Mortigan Goth: Immortalis) and drawn by Italian artist Pino Rinaldi, whose credits in his native country included Skorpio, Martin Mystere and Nathan Never. He did some work for Marvel in the US in the late 1990s, and was also a fill-in artist on the later, now retconned, issues of the non-Alan Davis period of ClanDestine.
Although unpublished in English, Wild Angels was published in Italy in 1996 as a single black and white volume, "where Marvel UK material continued to be printed for a good while longer than in the UK, US and Canada," notes It Came from Darkmoor. The book was a best seller for Marvel Italia.
The plot used some kind of time travel as a device to let Dark Angel travel to 2020, but the action was mainly centered in a virtual reality spiced up with magic.
This of course does raise the interesting question: if Wild Things was published in Italy, were any of the unpublished titles below also published there?
• There's a guide to the published story in English here on MarvUnApp
• It Came from Darkmoor has two articles on this project; an initial feature here and an update here which includes more information on the title's Italian publication, including artwork samples provided by Pino Rinaldi
February 1995
Fury/Black Widow: Death Duty
One-shot, perfect-bound
Writer: Cefn Ridout
Artist: Charlie Adlard
Colours: Frank Lopez; Steve Whitaker
Letters: Jon Babcock
This is an entirely different comic to another, using the Death Duty title (see the entry for the Red Mist 20-20 crossover line). That comic was first promoted in Body Count and solicited in Marvel Age #130 (November 1993), with the artist José Fonteriz attached, but was subsequently delayed (as reported in Comic World Issue 22, December 1993) and then cancelled. Fonteriz did draw Nocturne, published by Marvel US (see directly below).
Memorably realised by Cefn Ridout and Charlie Adlard, this 'Death Duty' was eventually released by Marvel US in February 1995, and was a Night Raven comic in all but name. This dark story looks as though it could have developed out of an earlier take on the project, as A1 co-creator and comics publisher Dave Elliott has previously mentioned another Night Raven-related project (in addition to Nocturne, also published by Marvel US – see directly below), which was going to be "written by Alan Grant, pencilled by Doug Braithwaite and inked by myself," he recalls in a post to the Make Mine Marvel UK Facebook group in September 2013. "I think Night Raven was involved somehow but it was not going to be his title."
June 1995
Four issue series
Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Pino Rinaldi (solicited artist) – actually drawn by José Fonteriz
Inks: John Stokes
Colour: Steve White; Sophie Heath
Letters: Pat Prentice
A film-maker discovers an old costume that grants him extraordinary powers, but which also seems to be taking over his mind.
Originally untended as part of a four-book relaunch of the Marvel UK range Paul Neary planned in 1994. An updated version of Night Raven, it was published by Marvel US, albeit with a Marvel UK logo on the cover.
"It's been kinda written off as an alt-universe story because it doesn't really fit the main universe version of Night Raven," notes It Came from Darkmoor compiler Mark Roberts.
Alan Cowsill tells us there was an original version of Nocturne that Dan Abnett and Andrew Currie were doing that never got passed a few pages and script.
More info:
• Marvel Wikia: http://marvel.wikia.com/Nocturne_Vol_1
• It Came From Darkmoor: http://itcamefromdarkmoor.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/deaths-head-which-almost-was-interview.html
• The Comic Vault: Dan Abnett's Nocturne Review – YouTube
• Atomic Avenue mini review
A1 co-creator and comics publisher Dave Elliott recalls another Night Raven-related project was developed – see below.
July 1995
X-Men Archives Featuring Captain Britain
Collections of Marvel UK strips from several different sources
#1 – Reprints the Captain Britain stories from Marvel Super-Heroes #377–#383
#2 – Reprints the Captain Britain strories from Marvel Superheroes #384–Daredevils #1
#3 – Reprints Captain Britain from Daredevils #2–#5
#4 – Reprints Captain Britain from from Daredevils #6–#8
#5 – Reprints Captain Britain from Daredevils #9–#11
#6 – Reprints Captain Britain from Mighty World of Marvel #7–#10
#7 – Reprints Captain Britain from Mighty World of Marvel #11–#13
Frontier was an imprint of Marvel UK some of whose projects were unconnected with the mainstream Marvel UK continuity. The imprint was managed by Michael Bennent, assisted by Gary Russell.
Two issue micro series
Art and Story: Liam Sharp
Inks: Cam Smith
Editor: Stuart Bartlett
Children of the Voyager
Four issue series
Writer: Nick Abadzis
Art: Paul Johnson
Originally promoted under the title 'He Who Walks'.
Dances with Demons
Four issues
Writer: Simon Jowett
Art: Charlie Adlard
Four issues
Writer: Nick Vince
Art: Mark Buckingham
Frontier Comics Special
Various writers and artists
A one-off anthology published in January 1994 (originally intended to be an ongoing title) comprising six stories featuring Frontier Comics characters, with scripts from the likes of Nick Abadzis, David Hine, Simon Jowett, Nicholas Vince and art by Charles Adlard, D'Israeli, David Hine, Paul Johnson, and wrapped in a cover by Liam Sharp.
• More on Frontier Comics on the Starlogged blog here
Developed during 1990 – 1991
Riding on the coat tails of STRIP, Marvel UK's anthology title published in 1990, editor Dan Abnett worked with a number of creators on possible mini series in US format, of varying length. These included a Death's Head mini series almost certainly conceived by Simon Furman, a new Abslom Daak – Dalek Killer saga by Steve Moore and a Rourke of the Radlands mini series featuring the warrior character created by myself and Liam Sharp, drawn by Liam, who appeared in STRIP #4.
None of these projects eventually went ahead and Dan Abnett, already a highly accomplished writer, left the company to go freelance, returning to write some of the Genesis 1992 projects under Paul Neary's direction, including Death's Head II.
The work Dan put into these projects, working with Marvel US staffers Tom de Falco and Carol Kalish, laid the groundwork for the US books that would be developed by Paul Neary for "Genesis 1992", with their emphasis on action adventure and superhero guest stars.
Known projects include:
After Daak by Steve Moore Artst: Unassigned
Steve Moore, who passed away in 2014, was approached to develop a mini series based on his much-loved Abslom Daak character the chainsword-wielding Dalek Sayer created for Doctor Who Weekly and drawn by Steve Dillon. Steve developed a wonderful ten part saga which you can read in full on the Altered Vistas web site, along with an interview him about Daak's development.
Although Dan and I were enthused by Steve's proposal, word came down from Marvel US – probably from either Tom de Falco or top sales person Carol Kalish – that ten issue mini series were no longer favoured for costs reasons, and Marvel was seeking to publish four-issue mini series instead to try out new characters. The emphasis for these projects also had to be very much on the action, rather than what might have been described as the cerebral, and as the point of contact with Steve and MUK I had to deliver this bad news, much to his dismay.
"I can't really remember the sequence of events properly," Steve recalled in his interview, "but in the file here I have a copy of a proposal by Dan Abnett and John Freeman for a story that would bring back Daak and sort out the continuity problems left by Nemesis of the Daleks [a Doctor Who story that ran in DWM] with a complicated tale of clones that left a clone Daak contentedly matched up with a clone Taiyin. I've a feeling they may have sent this to me to take a look at and comment on. I'm really not sure what happened next, but it seems that story was put aside, and I then found myself writing a proposal for a ten-issue mini-series called After Daak that also took into account the Nemesis of the Dalek continuity.
"I guess my major mistake was in deciding I wanted to do a more grown-up, sophisticated type of story that combined a ripping yarn of Daak and Mercurius in their Star Tiger days with a much bleaker mystery story set fifty years later, where two scholars try to uncover the truth behind the Daak legends… it was probably the most complex plot I'd ever come up with, and the outline was written in minute detail. I was immensely pleased with it, and I really regret that it was never written… I'd write it today, either as a strip or a novel, if I could find someone who'd pay me to do it. Unlikely as that is, though, I'm just glad to have the outline 'published' here on the website, so it gets out somehow, rather than just being neglected. At least it gives some idea of where the story would have gone if I'd been able to do what I liked with it."
Meanwhile, at Arundel House, Dan and I were informed four issues were the minimum Marvel could publish – there was some legal or distribution restriction in the US on publishing three-part mini series, which the company would have preferred. This immediately impacted our colouring on commissioning Steve's story.
"So John Freeman asked me to cut the story down from ten issues to four, which was absurd, and to concentrate on 'what Daak does best'… in other words, he wanted a thug with a chainsaw," Steve recalled. "I wasn't prepared to chop After Daak about like that, so I made a compromise offer that we'd put that story to one side and I'd write another outline for a four-issue series, which would concentrate on Daak's youth and early exploits with Mercurius and Selene, for which I jotted down a couple of paragraphs. If that went well, I suggested, we might do After Daak afterwards. But nothing ever came of that idea either, and everything just sort of fizzled out."
Sadly, for reasons beyond Dan and my control, neither Steve's ten-part or four-part proposal was ever taken up, although both treatments would almost certainly have been seen by Paul Neary when he took up the reins as Editorial Director at Marvel UK in the 1990s. By that time, Marvel US considered Doctor Who a 'dead' franchise and there was no value to Marvel in seeking to extend a brand they did not themselves own. Instead, Paul developed the Genesis 1992 characters for the company while also revamping Death's Head, drawn by Liam Sharp.
Rourke of the Radlands
Four Issue Mini Series
Writer: John Freeman Artist: Liam Sharp
A little taken aback by the positive response to female future warrior Rourke's appearance in STRIP #4, Dan asked me to come up with a mini series proposal developing the character and the alternate future Earth she lived in. I wrote an initial proposal – a time travel/ action adventure story – but during the project's development, writers were asked to re-work their propsosals to include Marvel heroes. I think I came up with at least two versions, one including Wolverine and Monark Starstalker, a character created by Howard Chaykin for Marvel Spotlight some years before. As with the After Daak project, the mini series went ahead but Liam's visuals caught Paul's attention, along with some X-Men samples, and he went on to draw Death's Head II for the Genesis 1992 project.
Under the original ethos of STRIP, several of the characters created for the one-off stories featured in the title were commissioned on the basis that they would be creator owned, and Paul Neary ensured that this agreement was honoured in March 1992, with letters sent to several creators acknowledging ownership by then Managing Director Vincent Conran.
The letters confirmed that Rourke of the Radlands is copyright John Freeman and Liam Sharp, that characters featured in the story "Eight Miles High" are copyright John Carnell and Gary Erskine; and "Combat Wombat", which was drawn by Tony O'Donnell, is copyright Steve White and Andy Seddon.
• A new Rourke of the Radlands story will feature in the digital anthology Biodegradable, drawn by Bill Storie
Developed during 1992
Doctor Who/Doctor Strange Crossover
Writer: Andrew Cartmel Artist: Lee Sullivan
While Steve Moore's project unfortunately went nowhere, this didn't dampen my enthusiasm for trying to get spin-off Doctor Who projects off the ground. That included the Doctor Who newspaper strip pitched at the Daily Express, and a story by Andrew Cartmel featuring a Doctor Who and Doctor Strange crossover. It was at this point I learnt of Who's disfavour by Marvel US, even though Tom deFalco was a fan of the show).
Andrew's story involved an ageing rock band who had made a deal with a demon to ensure their success. Lee Sullivan drew a promotional image for the proposed series. There's a little more information on this abandoned project here.
Developed during 1993 – Red Mist 20-20 line
Red Mist 20.20
Writer: Alan Cowsill and Simon Jowett
Artist: Andrew Currie, Charlie Adlard (Dougie Braithwaite created a series of trading cars to promote this series)
Alternatively written as 20/20 in some places, the press adverts went with the 20-20 version of the title. A six-part crossover planned for selected October and November 1993 titles. The participating titles were all cancelled and the crossover abandoned. Had it been published the stories would have run in this sequence:
"Red Mist: 20-20 was a crossover made up of the first two issues of three four-issue mini-series," Simon Jowett tells us. "Roid Rage (written by Alan Cowsill, art by Andrew Currie), Death Duty (also written by Alan) and Bloodrush (written by me with art by Charlie Adlard). Each mini-series concluded in their two post-crossover issues. Art for all four issues of Blood Rush was completed (because that Adlard is a machine), but I have no idea how much was lettered or where the pages may have ended up."
Had the crossover not been pulled, it would have played out in the following sequence: Wild Thing #8, 'Death Duty' #1, ''Roid Rage' #1, 'Bloodrush' #1, Wild Thing #9, Super Soldiers #9, 'Death Duty' #2, ''Roid Rage' #2, 'Bloodrush' #2, Wild Thing #10 and Super Soldiers #10.
The stories in Wild Thing and Super Soldiers were described as Red Mist 'Touchdowns' in a Marvel Age magazine feature.
In addition, 'Death Duty', ''Roid Rage' and 'Bloodrush' would all have been promoted with a set of inter-locking covers across their debut issues. As with some of their previous releases (such as the Gene Pool comics), they would also have been bagged with another set of trading cards featuring art by Dougie Braithwaite and Andy Lanning, complete with descriptive text on the rear of each card".
Writer: Simon Jowett
Art: Charlie Adlard
Solicited but cancelled, Charlie Adlard had completed art on this series, but it wasn't published.
A number of pages from the project have been posted on ComicArtFans.
Death Duty
Writer: Alan Cowsill
Art: José Fonteriz
Sharing a title with the later published Fury/Black Widow: Death Duty one-shot comic featuring Night Raven, a comic also using the Death Duty title was first promoted in Body Count and solicited in Marvel Age #130 (November 1993), with the artist José Fonteriz attached, but was subsequently delayed (as reported in Comic World Issue 22, December 1993). Designed as a prequel to the Red Mist saga, it was cancelled along with the rest of the line. Fonteriz did draw Nocturne, published by Marvel US (see above).
• More info here on the Starlogged blog
Roid Rage
Writer: Alan Cowsill
Art: Andrew Currie and Bryan Hitch
A Super Soldiers spin off Marvel UK were planning back in the day that, former editor Alan Cowsill reports "got canned as the book was at the printers!"
"It was all part of the Red Mist saga. It's also the first time Agent Keller, a character who re-surfaced in Revolutionary War, appeared… he didn't last long though!"
Chris Halls, who was production designer on Alien 3, did some promotional art for the series.
• More info here on the Starlogged blog
Other titles developed during 1993
Battletide III
Writer: Information Welcome (Probably Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning)
Artist: Information Welcome (Probably Geoff Senior)
Sequel to the two previous Battletide limited series. Issue one was solicited in but subsequently cancelled.
Writer: Tim Quinn
Artist: Sal Buscema
Nial Coward – by nature matching his unfortunate name – accidentally becomes the world's most famous superhero, Slaughter.
Dark Guard: Old Friends
Writer: Dan Abnett?
Art: Carlos Pacheo
Inks: Mark Farmer
Announced in Comics International #38 for publication in April 1994 but subsequently cancelled. This may have included material originally planned for Dark Guard #5-6.
"This story and a double Dark Guard issue, inked by Mark Farmer," recalls Carlos Pacheo. "It remained unpublished after Marvel UK cancelled the comic-book line. I completed three issues that never saw the light of day."
Whilst working with Liam Sharp on a new Death's Head II project that was never completed (most likely to be the continuation of the 'Necromachiad' storyline from Death's Head II: Gold), the inker Cam Smith was also collaborating with Carlos Pacheco on half of the pages for a follow-up 'Dark Guard Special', set after the end of the first series. Andy Lanning had come in to help ink the remaining pages after Mark Farmer had to drop out at an early stage due to other commitments.
After completing his half of the pages over Christmas – which he noted was the "first time" that he'd ever worked through that holiday season, Smith was "gutted" when the Special was then pulled and never made it onto the printed page.
Death3: Prometheus Rising
Writer: Dan Abnett
Artist: Dell Barras
The Death's Head II: Gold comicbook had been designed as a prelude to this series, which was originally advertised for release in April 1993 under the title of Prometheus Fire, 'Death3: Prometheus Rising'.
The new character Death Rattle would have starred in 'Death3: Prometheus Rising' along with Death's Head and Death Metal, forming the triumvirate of name checked by that comic's title. In the year 2020 they would face up to a new villain named Charnel, encountering various, alternate versions of classic villains like The Kingpin, and Doctor's Doom and Octopus.
Death Rattle
Writer: Craig Houston
Artist: Liam Sharp
Inks: Bryan Hitch
A solo outing for this latest 'Death'-named character, which had originally been named 'Death Trap'.
Dragon's Claws
Writer: Information Welcome
Artist: Information Welcome
There were tantalising plans to produce a two-issue revamp.
Fallen Angel
Writer: Nick Vince
Artist: D'Isreali
This had morphed into The Fallen by the time the nine-page 'Fallen Angel' story 'Troubling Deaf Heaven' had featured in the sole issue of Frontier Comics Unlimited, and that was as far as the series would go.
Frontier Comics Unlimited
There were plans to launch this as a regular title, along with two other potential Frontier titles. Fallen Angel was one of the titles (listed above), with the other one to have been written by Nick Abadzis.
As a known "big fan of James Cameron" [Comic World – #19, September 1993], he was being nudged towards creating a series not unlike his movies. "They want a bit of hardware", he said at the time [Comic World – #19, September 1993]. The suggested name for this series is presently unknown.
Gene Machine
Writer: Michael Cook
Artist: Christian Gorny
According to Comics International [#24 – Autumn 1992], this series "tells of attempts by future scientists to prevent the risks of genetic engineering in the past. Their agent, the Gene Machine, travels back in time to the 1990s on his quest, bumping into such heroes as Wolverine, Sasquatch and Thor en-route".
G-Force – Four issue series
Writer: John Freeman
Art: John Ross
Editor: Stuart Bartlett
Follow up to the two-issue Die-Cut versus G-Force mirco series. Four scripts were written and at least 19 pages of Issue One drawn.
For those of you interested in ancient history, I've posted the work done, including the scripts (both for the mini series and a two-page G-Force story for Overkill) here in PDF format.
The best thing about it, looking back, is John Ross' amazing art. I can't speak for the story. Rose tinted glasses and all that!
Heavy Weapon 911 (Frontier title)
Writer: Simon Jowett
Artist: Information Welcome
Announced for 1993 but unpublished. Described by Frontier Group Editor Michael Bennent as "humour-orientated title about a big robot with big guns" who came from the future.
"I was slated to write Heavy Weapon (I don't remember '911' being added to the title)," Simon Jowett recalls, "but had only written a few pages of each when the final hammer fell."
• More info here on the Starlogged blog
Kill Frenzy – Four issue series
Writer: Bambos Georgiou
Art: Henry Flint
An assassin of mixed parentage (alien, animal and human) is doomed to perpetually wander the galaxy in search of potential victims. Announced as a four issue limited series, intended to launch in February 1994.
In an interview with Matthew Badman [Judge Dredd Megazine – #258, 29th May 2007], Flint described the title character as an "unpleasant alien with big teeth who'd go in to killing fits", and the theme of the comic as a "space opera with bikes and swords and stuff". It was only after completing the first issue of 'Kill Frenzy' that Flint of course learnt the series would now never be published, although in compensation for his wasted hard work he would at least be paid for all four issues. Surprisingly, Henry then decided to churn out the final three issues anyway.
• More info here on the Starlogged blog
Knights of Pendragon: Armageddon Knights
Writer: John Freeman
Artist: Unknown
I was asked to come up with a plot line for a new Knights of Pendragon saga, which was sent to Paul Neary in September 1993. The story featured Mys-TECH and followed on from their guest appearance in the unpublished G-Force mini series. I presume it was a victim of the cull of titles, because I never received any response to the pitch (mind you, the covering letter was pretty snotty about some other matters, so I'm not surprised – the arrogance of youth!).
I used Grace and Union Jack as the major players, but also wrapped up the "loose ends" from the second Knights of Pendragon series without cluttering the basic story of the Red Lord escaping his dimensional prison and starting to lay waste to the omnivores, which was Paul's idea, I think. I was asked, it seems, not to include Albion but in such a climactic storyline as the one we discussed I really felt his absence would be very odd – so I used him in the context of his links with the Dark Guard. My plot line had no Marvel US guest stars – – though Dark Guard were obvious candidates as Marvel UK cameos.
I have re-worked the concept with all-new characters a couple of times, once at Tim Perkins suggestion for a US publisher and more recently with artist Bill Storie.
Writer: Craig Houston
Artist: Carl Critchlow
Announced as a four-issue fully-painted limited series "featuring a genetic romp through Earth's dinosaur-infested past". Craig had begun work on the first issue before it was cancelled.
More info: http://starlogged.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/marvel-uk-in-usa-part-two.html
Loose Cannons – Four issue series
Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Mark Harrison
An all-female Warheads troop – Virago – are teamed, reluctantly with Death's Head II… Three issue of the fully painted series were completed, with the fourth almost finished.
First listed as starting in July 1993, the series was then resolicited with a launch date of 11th January 1994.
Here's the sell-in information from Previews, November 1993:
"This fully-painted four-issue limited series features the first appearance of Loose Cannons , the female wing of the mercenary squad Warheads . Will they survive their first appearance? When they bring their own brand of firepower to a world overrun by propagating insect aliens, the Cannons come back with an unexpected souvenir; a deadly bacterium that horribly deforms any human it touches! What will their bosses do? Why, bottle it, label it 'food' and sell it to the starving masses of course! The Loose Cannons then set out to right the wrong they inadvertently brought to the world-but they're not alone in their mission! They're joined by Death's Head II, that loveable android with the killer charisma. Along the way the crew encounters still more insectoid alien hordes, and the Kree, Shi' Ar and Skrull alliance!"
• Read the story online: www.2000ad.org/markus/loosecannons
Sisters of Grace (Frontier title)
Writer: Simon Jowett
Artist: Information Welcome
Described by Michael Bennent as "humour-based title about six hot babes in space."
"I was slated to write both Sisters of Grace (they had appeared very briefly in Black Axe)," Simon Jowett recalls, "but had only written a few pages of each when the final hammer fell."
• Dark Guard: Old Friends
Writer: Dan Abnett?
Art: Carlos Pacheo
Inks: Mark Farmer
Writer: Information Welcome
Artist: José Fonteriz
Promoted in Body Count and solicited in Marvel Age #130 in November 1993 but subsequently delayed (as reported in Comic World Issue 22, December 1993) and then cancelled. Fonteriz did draw Nocturne, published by Marvel US (see above).
Kill Frenzy – Four issue series
Writer: Bambos Georgiou
Art: Henry Flint
An assassin of mixed parentage (alien, animal and human) is doomed to perpetually wander the galaxy in search of potential victims. Announced as a four issue limited series, intended to launch in February 1994.
More info: http://starlogged.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/marvel-uk-in-usa-part-two.html
Several other Motormouth projects were planned but abandoned by Marvel UK, including Motormouth Remix, an alternative take on the Marvel Universe in which Spider-Man is a Vietnam Vet, The Punisher is an evangelist and Captain America as a sadistic villain.
In 2017, artist Jesus Redondo posted these Pages featuring Motormouth and Death's Head II, but he couldn't remember which project they were for…
Announced as launching in March 1994 but subsequently cancelled, Motormouth Remix was written by Rafael Marin and Carlos Pacheco and drawn by Carlos, whose first comics work for Marvel was at Marvel UK, first drawing Exploits of Spider-Man covers and then a short Motormouth strip for Motormouth & Killpowr #12, written by Matthew Hyde.
"We tried to connect the Marvel UK characters, mainly Motormouth and Killpower, to the American Marvel Universe," Carlos recalls. "A story where Killpower was lost in the multiverse and Motormouth was jumping form different parallel realities looking for him."
Another Motormouth-related project was Removal Man versus Motormouth, written by Glenn Dakin with art from Pedro Espinosa, as listed below.
• More info here on the Starlogged blog
Motormouth versus Removal Man – Two Issue Series
Writer: Glenn Dakin
Penciller: Pedro Espinosa
Inker: Tim Perkins
When a page from this unpublished story was offered on eBay in 2014 it the light on a project strangely forgotten in the annals of Marvel UK – mirroring the story's concept.
"I created Removal Man who was a MyS-TECH 'last resort' assassin who killed people by making it so they never existed in the first place," recalled writer Glenn Dakin, who has copies of the first issue, which was fully lettered and drawn by Tim Perkins. "He went back and took Motormouth out of reality. Well he tried to, and he ended up being the one who never existed.
Featured in the the art above are Removal Man and Scrueman, an insane Dickensian debt collector who handled MyS-TECH's most lost causes (like trying to catch Harley).
• Tim Perkins has some pages of this first issue on his Wizards Keep web site
Officer Outbody – Solicited two issue mini-series for 1993/94, later expanded to four issues
Writer: Glenn Dakin
Art: Ross Dearsley
Solicited four issue mini-series for the 1993/94. Officer Outbody was to have been some kind of inter-dimensional/astral cop and Doctor Strange was to have played a part in his adventures. The announcement of delayed publication appeared in Comic World 22 (December 1993) and then cancelled when Marvel UK pulled the US line completely.
"Officer Outbody grew out of the character Die-Cut," Glenn Dakin recalls of the abandoned project. "Paul Neary showed me a picture of a big guy with a blade that could cut through anything, and asked me to invent an identity for him (this was early in 1993). I thought it would be good if the blade cut through dimensions, and came up with the idea of an 'astral plane patrolman'."
"I did quite a few development sketches, but I think I only completed two pages in ink before the project was cancelled," Ross recalls. "Jaqui Papp was the Editor I think.
"It was a very surreal story set in the Astral Plane where Outbody was a policeman. Doctor Strange was the obligatory 'known' Marvel character cameo, and there were tons of wierd BG elements like floating architecture, eye-ball creatures and starfields."
• There's more about this project here on downthetubes
Project Gemini
Writer: Information Welcome
Artist: Salvador Larocca
Death's Head II artist Larocca is noted as the artist on this project in a promotional brochure, Body Count, published by Marvel UK in 1993, but there are no more details about what it was or which characters featured in it.
Could this have been the "untitled team book to follow-up on the action of The MyS-Tech Wars", as reported by Comic World magazine [#11 – January 1993]
Punisher versus Death's Head – Four issue limited series
Writer: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
Art: Bryan Hitch
Announced for first-quarter 1994 in Comics International 38, December 1993, but subsequently cancelled.
In 2014, artist Richard Piers Rayner uncovered what we think is a piece of promotional art that might have been intended for this project featuring Dark Angel and the Punisher. Read our news story here.
• More info here on the Starlogged blog
Red Squirrel Man
Creator: Tom de Falco
"There was an attempt – on the instructions of Tom DeFalco – to develop an all British super hero to be called Red Squirrel Man," says former Marvel UK editor David Leach.
• More info here on It Came from Darkmoor
Ripwire – Planned Four Issue mini series
Writer: Craig Houston
Art: Stuart Jennett
A four-issue mini-series, originally titled "Razorwire" from Craig and Stuart, who worked on later issues of Warheads, The book's release was pushed back in late 1993 (as reported in Comics World Issue 22 (December 1993), and then cancelled.
Craig recalls the story – which featured a robotic weapons system called Rip on the run in New York – was originally a self-contained two parter, but was extended to include an appearance by the Warheads, perhaps in part at Paul Neary's suggestion, so it was expanded to four issues.
Craig had completed the first two issues, written to full script, but thinks the last two probably never got past outline.
Sisters of Grace (Frontier title)
Writer: Simon Jowett
Artist: Information Welcome
Described by Michael Bennent as "humour-based title about six hot babes in space."
"I was slated to write both Sisters of Grace (they had appeared very briefly in Black Axe)," Simon Jowett recalls, "but had only written a few pages of each when the final hammer fell."
The 'Sisters' were seeking Grace, the source of their genetic code.
Ten Sec
Writer: Dan Abnett
Artist: Michael Bennett
Solicited as a six-issue series to commence in June 1993, 'Tensec' involved Rathcoole from MyS-TECH who could stop time for ten seconds, at least until his power ring goes missing. The quest to regain that power source somehow provides an excuse for a team-up between Captain America and the Warheads team along the way.
Timestryke: 2050
Writer: Graham Marks
Artist: Barrie Mitchell
Minion's creator, Dr. Necker, is dying. Her only salvation is to find Badhand. (As noted in the Bulldog Bulletin in the back of the Frontier Comics Special)
Total Death
Writer: Information Welcome
Artist: Information Welcome
All we know of this at this stage is a line from the "Editor's Choice" of the Frontier Comics Special from editor Stuart Bartlett. From the vagueness of the mention, it's possible that "Total Death" could have been the name given to their next big over-arching promotion rather than for any specific title.
Unbelievable Exploits of Father Christmas
Writer: Tim Quinn
Artist: Mario Capaldi
A holiday Special which would have seen Saint Nick himself facing the Demon King.
Unknown 'Prestige Project'
Writer: Information Welcome
Artist: Simon Coleby
Mentioned in the 1993 Body Count promotion.
Writer: Jeremy Banx & David Leach
Artist: Carles Demiguel Bonilla
Warhide was the world's first skinned communist super hero – a Russian coated in a liquid carbon skin that's as strong as diamond so you can see all his muscles.
This was planned as a four issue mini-series, and in co-writer David Leach's words was a rare series that "didn't feature MyS-TECH" at all. 'Warhide'", Leach explained on the original Facebook group Make Mine Marvel UK!!! in 2008, "started in the last days of the Soviet/Afghan war" when the hero, Pushkin, was "captured by the Mujhadeen and skinned alive.
He's rescued and undergoes a procedure that accidentally coats him a special carbon polymer" turning his body as hard as diamond. With the collapse of the Soviet Union "the Warhide technology is sold to a warmongering American industrialist", David continued, "and that's where the story proper started. Because of my sick sense of humour, the main villain was a sadistic killer paralysed from the neck down and strapped into a massive exo-suit".
With the first three issues scripted, and artwork for the first issue (including the cover) already completely drawn, Bonilla had started work on the second issue, but just as Marvel's promotional machine kicked into gear "the plug was pulled. Then, to add insult to injury, Marvel upped sticks to Tunbridge Wells, and the wonderful old Arundel House was cleared out", David recalls, "with the artwork to #1 of Warhide and lots and lots of other original artwork all thrown out", criminally, "along with the entire Marvel UK comic library".
More info:
• Lost in Action: Marvel UK's Warhide
• It Came from Darkmoor: Death's Head which Almost Was – interview with David Leach
Wild Things
Writer: Nick Vince
Art: Pino Rinaldi
Although not published in English, the full series was gathered together and published instead by Marvel Italia (see above).
1994 (Marvel UK branded) Core Relaunch
An unrealised four-book relaunch of the Marvel UK range Paul Neary planned in 1994, from which only Nocturne was eventually published as a regular Marvel US comic.
Captain Britain
Writer: Dan Abnett
Pencils: Andrew Currie
Inks: Bryan Hitch
Part of a four-book relaunch of the Marvel UK range Paul Neary planned in 1994. "I'm pretty sure Dan was given the Captain Britain assignment," Simon Jowett recalls. "At least one script was written and Andrew Currie drew some pages." In fact, 16 pages were eventually completed, and a few tantalising panels later shown in an issue of Marvel's solicitation magazine Marvel Vision.
• More info here on It Came From Darkmoor
Death's Head Quorum – ongoing series
Writer: David Leach
Art: Simon Coleby
A Death's Head II revamp. "Book one was fully written," David Leach recalls. "I write full scripts, not Marvel scripts, so it came in at I think 40 odd pages in length. The series was loosely plotted and book two was in note form.
"Simon Coleby was hired as the artist, but never got a chance to drawn a single panel. Alas, all that remains are a couple of notebooks."
• More info here on It Came From Darkmoor
The Golden Grenadier
Writer: Tim Quinn
Art: Adolofo Buylla and John Watkiss
Part of a four-book relaunch of the Marvel UK range Paul Neary planned in 1994. It seems there were two aspects to this project, with Adolfo Buylla providing art for the historical stories and John Watkiss art for more contemporary tales.
Recalls Tim Quinn on Facebook's Make Mine Marvel UK group: "The Golden Grenadier. Period: The Fifties. By day he was a grenadier guardsman outside Buckingham Palace. He was also Britain's first astronaut. He worked for a covert organisation run by … wait for it … The Queen Mother.
"We had two issues written and drawn and ready to be coloured when Marvel UK started sinking into the sunset. Interestingly for Marvel fans, one of the issues featured Tim Boo Ba and Fin Fang Foom."
That the Golden Grenadier does not look unlike Marvel UK Editor in Chief at the time Paul Neary has not gone unnoticed: it was deliberate, says Tim. "Paul had that clean-cut Fifties square jawed hero about him (albeit with more than a touch of Victor Von Doom bubbling under the surface)."
Adolfo Buylla was a veteran artist who had been used by Marvel UK on James Bond Jr and Knights of Pendragon Volume 2. "I think this is the mini-series where Adolfo supplied the art for the 1950s version and John Watkiss was going to supply the art for the modern gritty section," recalls ex-Marvel UK editor Bambos Georgiou.
Buylla, whose credits include the 'Flash Gordon'- like Diego Valor series in the 1950s, Marvel's Chiller Giant and work for DC Comics, Gold Key and 2000AD, died in 1998.
British film and comics artist John Watkiss, whose comics work included Surgeon X from Image, died in 2017, aged just 55. (You can read a tribute here).
1994 – Final Unrealised Projects
After the failure to get the 'Core Relaunch' titles off the ground, Marvel US brought the Marvel UK imprint to an end, at least as a branding for further US series (the various UK comics and magazines continued as before). Neary then planned a series of titles to be issued instead by Marvel US, with the UK offices acting purely as a production studio once more. Artists such as Joe Fronteriz, Pino Rinaldi and Salvador Larroca were all mentioned by Neary as potential artists for several other undisclosed projects, while three others were developed a little further. Nothing would come from any of these pitches either.
Writer: David Leach
This series "only got as far as being green lit as a character, before it was canned," David Leach recalls.
The comic's hero was a 17 year-old lad who found himself dumped with his aunt child-averse after his parent's had split up. The twist here is that his aunt works for NASA and is having problems with a protective suit originally designed for an aborted Mars mission that her young charge manages to get working, at least to some degree. After saving her life wearing the nano-tech driven Specialist Terrain Operated Mobile Power suit, very much against her wishes, they form an uneasy alliance.
Neary had expressed an interest in either Carlos Pacheco or newcomer Jimmy Cheung (who would eventually produce some new work for the British wing some years' hence) as potential artists on S.T.O.M.P.
• More info here on It Came from Darkmoor
Developed by Paul Neary and Tom de Falco
Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Pino Rinaldi
Described by Neary as a "reinvent of Plastic Man", this new hero could not only make himself wafer thin, but turn into gas or liquid form, albeit with potentially dangerous consequences. No definitive title for the series was ever settled on, with the project adopting 'Mutator' during the autumn of 1994, which was then one of ten potential names on the list.
Although a brief outline offering initial ideas of the series exists, crediting Paul Neary and Tom de Falco as creators, Tom told me in 2018 that he doesn't remember anything about this project.
"Part of it reads like something I would have written. Part of it sounds more like Paul. I wish I had something for you to add. I don't.
"I do remember that I often tossed ideas Paul's way, he adds from the United States, "as well as to my editors on this side of the pond.
"The done-in-one complete story without a cliffhanger is something that I believed in then and still do. You need a clear and clean origin story so that you have the ability to reprint it in the future or take to pitch meetings."
• Read more about Mutator here
Title Unknown
Writer: Bernie Jaye
Artist: Never Assigned
Bernie Jaye was, of course, a regular collaborator with Neary, and was working on an un-named series concerning a man who stumbles across a stash of android robots, which he then uses to implant his consciousness after a terrible accident connects him to the androids. With title character's real body now critically injured, he uses the androids to locate his missing body, thus creating some varied story potential from "a hero going into various bodies and not really caring if the bodies get hurt".
In 1995, Marvel US bought Figurine Panini, along with a number of other businesses, merging Panini's UK offices with that of Marvel UK, and bringing in the Panini UK management to take over from Neary. Contrary to what has often been previously written elsewhere, although Marvel US took more of a backseat thereafter, they still owned Marvel UK and would continue to do so until the business difficulties that saw Marvel US enter the Chapter 11 process in America were resolved. As part of the eventual settlement, they were forced to divest themselves of various acquisitions, including Panini.
Thus, it was only at the end of 1999 that Marvel UK became part of Panini UK and were no longer part of the Marvel group. This change was immediately reflected within the copyright indicia inside all of the first UK titles to bear a January 2000 date, and can most clearly been seen on the cover of Doctor Who Magazine, where the classic Marvel Comics logo from that period suddenly disappeared after the publication of #285 (15th December).
Useful Links
• It Came From Darkmoor: http://itcamefromdarkmoor.blogspot.co.uk
Terrific blog about Marvel UK and British Marvel heroes
• Starlogged: http://starlogged.blogspot.co.uk
Charting the history of many British comics, including their promotion. The site has a fantastic list of every Marvel UK title published, in choronological order, here
• Comics Pending – January 1993
This document outlines some of the unpublished comic strips planned for Overkill, and my thoughts on the future of some of the company's title such as Motormouth and Warheads, in January 1993, when I was in the process of leaving the company to take up life as a freelancer. The company was absorbed by Panini UK in 1995 and is no longer in business.
The hand-written notes refer to "Paul" – Paul Neary, Marvel UK's Editorial Director; and editors Tim Quinn, Jacqui Papp and Bambos Georgiou.
Special thanks to…
Alan Cowsill, David Elliott, Carl Flint, Glenn Dakin, Alan Green, Richard Green, David Leach, Tim Quinn, Simon Jowett, Mark Roberts, John Ross, Cam Smith, and others for help assembling this page


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Jonathan is an Assistant Prosecutor for Gloucester County, where he is currently assigned to the Grand Jury Unit - Special Litigation Section and concentrates his practice on bail reform/criminal justice reform matters, including initial appearance hearings for recently-charged defendants, detention hearings, as well as appeals in both superior and municipal courts. Jonathan was born in Manhasset, NY and raised in Princeton Junction, NJ, where he graduated from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South in 2006. Jonathan was admitted to Drew University on a merit scholarship, where he graduated in 2010, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Spanish. As a law student at Rutgers School of Law-Camden, Jonathan was a member of the Student Bar Association, Alianza, and a student teacher for the Street Law Program. Upon graduation, in 2014, he was awarded the Dean's Pro Bono Publico Award for Significant Service.
Jonathan is a member of the Rutgers School of Law-Camden Alumni Association, and the State Bar Association of New Jersey, where he is the Young Lawyers Division District Representative for Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland Counties. Jonathan is also a New Lawyer Trustee for the Gloucester County Bar Association. In 2018, Jonathan helped establish the Drew University Legal Professionals Affinity Group, and is the inaugural Co-Chair. Jonathan regularly volunteers as a mentor to law students and young attorneys, and has served as a guest speaker on panels for the Rutgers Law School Minority Student Program.
Jonathan is admitted to practice in New Jersey, U.S. District Court of New Jersey, and Federal Immigration Court. Prior to joining the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office in March 2017, Jonathan was an associate attorney with Leschak & Associates, LLC in Freehold, NJ.


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(Reuters) – U.S. office vacancy rate was unchanged at 16.6 percent in the third quarter, according to real estate research firm Reis Inc (REIS.O).
Overall net absorption, measured in terms of available office space sold in the market during a certain time period, dropped to 3.5 million square feet of office space in the third quarter, compared with 5.5 million square feet, a year earlier.
"The sluggishness in the office market is nothing new, but the deceleration contrasts an otherwise healthy economy as office employment growth has picked up in 2018 from rates seen in 2017," according to the report.
New construction of office spaces declined to 5.9 million square feet during the third quarter, from 9.7 million square feet, a year earlier.
Both asking and effective rents rose about 2.5 percent.
The recent higher rent growth had suggested that landlords were gaining confidence in leasing conditions, however tenants have been hesitant to take on added space which has kept a lid on rent growth, the report said.
During the third quarter, 41 of the 79 metros reported a rise in vacancy, while New York City once again had the lowest vacancy rate among the metros.
Reporting by Sanjana Shivdas in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta
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Treatment of Endometrial Hyperplasia With an Intrauterine Device (IUD)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00123175
Recruitment Status : Withdrawn (Study has never received funding and has never been initiated)
First Posted : July 22, 2005
Last Update Posted : January 8, 2013
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|Condition or disease
|Endometrial Hyperplasia
|Device: Intrauterine Device
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
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|0 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Participant)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Levonorgestrel Containing Intrauterine Device in the Treatment of Endometrial Hyperplasia Without Atypia
|Study Start Date :
|September 2009
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|September 2011
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|September 2011
- Device: Intrauterine Device
Mirena and ProveraOther Name: Medroxyprogesterone Acetate and Progestins
- Pathologic examination of the specimens obtained by endometrial biopsy to determine the regression of endometrial hyperplasia without atypia compared to Provera [ Time Frame: 90 days ]
- Side effects [ Time Frame: 90 days ]
- Bleeding profile [ Time Frame: 90 days ]
- Estradiol and progesterone levels [ Time Frame: 90 days ]
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologic diagnosis of simple or complex endometrial hyperplasia without atypia
- Normal pap smear within one year
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- Diabetes
- Family history of endometrial cancer
- Contraindications for the intrauterine device
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|Richard Legro, M.D.
|Penn State University College of Medicine
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Endometrial Hyperplasia without atypia
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PyFileMaker – Integrating Python and Filemaker
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Terry Nolan farewelled in massive Gatton funeral
TERRY Nolan was a huge figure in the Lockyer Valley, and he was given a suitably huge send off in his funeral in Gatton today.
As the strains of Slim Dusty's song Lights on the Hill emerged from the Catholic Church of St Mary's, dozens of Nolan's Transport staff lined the streets along with well over a thousand mourners.
They watched as the hearse carrying Terry slowly headed towards the cemetery followed by three gleaming Nolan's Transport prime mover.
The Nolan's Transport boss died last week aged 69, after a seven-year battle with cancer and was laid to rest today surrounded by family, friends, staff and business and industry colleagues.
Terry's son Darren Nolan thanked everyone for their kind sentiments and support during a difficult time for the family.
"Our father was a large than life character, but also a silent achiever," Darren Nolan said.
"Those that knew Terry, knew that everything he planned in his life was big and the plans for his funeral were just as big."
Darren gave special thanks to Lockyer Valley Regional Council for their help and it was Mayor Steve Jones who delivered the eulogy.
"Terry was always thinking about putting others first and that was highlighted during the 2011 flood when he supported the region enormously despite significant impact to his own business," Mayor Jones said.
"He always believed in doing business locally as much as possible."
Terry Nolan was a born and bred Gatton local.
He was married 48 years to Daphne and together they turned a small regional trucking operation into a national heavyweight.
Starting with a fleet of four Mack trucks in the 1970s, Nolan's Transport grew to 130 trucks, 228 trailers and 280 staff with their headquarters still in Gatton.
Terry Nolan is survived by his wife Daphne, three children Michelle, Darren and Adrian (Flea) and seven grandchildren.


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Vase no. 1
Lynn's functional work often feels sculptural. He started making large-scale sculptural forms, fired in gas kilns. Some of his sculptural forms weigh 600 pounds. This little vase is like an elegant sculpture in and of itself. It has the feel of a piece that is truly handmade, thrown on the wheel and then altered by the artist.
Thrown + glazed in Sonoma.
Only one made. Ships immediately.
Height ~5 in. / Diameter ~2.75
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New York Comic Con is in full swing, and the fact that it's here already reminds us of just how many game-related cons there are scattered throughout the calendar year. Whether it's NYCC, Dragon Con, E3, GDC, or the various flavors of PAX, there always seems to be something just around the corner that calls for hotel reservations and airline tickets. More often than not, the next convention on the circuit sneaks right up on us before we manage to shake the jet lag from the last one.
While we'd like nothing better than to shirk responsibilities and tour the world of gaming and pop culture conventions for a year, work must occasionally intrude, and most of us have to pick and choose our events. What about you Massively readers? Did you attend NYCC this weekend, and are you a regular on the gaming convention circuit?
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Popular social networking sites such as MySpace and Bebo are putting children at risk of online bullying and inadvertently exposing them to pornography and unsuitable advertising, the consumer affairs magazine Which? has warned.
This comes after Computing Which? set up an account pretending to be a 14-year-old and found "numerous examples" of pornography, bullying and unsuitable advertising on the site, which allows users to create their own web pages, chat to friends and share photographs.
The adult researcher who set up a MySpace account as a teenager was able to do so without proving age or identity. The sites claim to monitor uploaded images, but researchers came across pornographic photographs on both "within minutes".
MySpace removed one image within a couple of hours of it being reported but two pornographic pictures remained online at Bebo nearly a day later, according to the consumer affairs magazine.
In one instance of bullying, a teenage boy's web page asked his friends to vote on whether a girl they knew had Aids.
"Networking sites such as MySpace.com and Bebo.com need to do more to protect their millions of trusting members," said the magazine's editor, Jessica Ross. "Children are spending hours every week on networking sites, building up their profiles and chatting with friends. However, what might seem like innocent fun has a darker, more sinister side.
"Teenage users need to be aware that there is no way of knowing who is behind the face of a 'friend'."
Michael Birch, Bebo's chief executive, told Computing Which? that cyber bullying occurred in only a small minority of cases. Bebo aimed to remove offensive images within 24 hours of their being reported and was introducing technology to scan photos proactively.
In a statement, Bebo said: "Sadly, children face risks in everyday life, whether playing in their school grounds or on the internet. We are very conscious of this and are working hard to ensure our site is not abused. With that in mind, we are introducing an anti-bullying initiative today.
"Users can now opt to pre-screen comments and images that others attempt to post to their Bebo homepage. In addition, users can choose to block specific users from further interaction."
A MySpace spokesman said the site "takes online safety extremely seriously" and had systems in place to protect those under the age of 18 and remove pornographic images.
Both MySpace and Bebo employ security and child safety officers, who trawl sites for illegal or inappropriate content.
Computing Which? said parents should ensure children never give details online which could reveal their identity. It also advised that only trusted friends be allowed to view a user's profile, and that users never lie about their age.


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Milestones, budgets and responsibilities: What is done by who and when?
The successful digitalisation of a company requires strategic planning and long-term thinking. Three basic steps are useful here, i.e. orientation, strategy and implementation.
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Service offers, support programmes or other advisory services are available in order to support companies on their digital journey.
After identifying the first starting points for digitalisation during the orientation phase, the strategy phase is then the stage of concrete project planning. This step identifies the measures that are worth-while for the company and the aims to be achieved by these measures. Furthermore, it also determines the project to be implemented first, the sequence of further measures to follow and how to measure the success of the individual steps.
The strategy phase thus defines concrete aims: Who will implement what, in what way, and by when? The best way for this is to set up a project plan with realistic milestones, budgets and responsibilities in order to ensure optimum process management. This must include everybody involved in the process, not just executive management. Employees who are directly affected by digitalisation measures require continuous learning and further qualification measures which should be taken into consideration when planning the project. Furthermore, planning should allow for sufficient pilot and test phases in order to avoid unforeseen consequences of introducing new systems and processes.
Before small and medium-sized enterprises plan and implement digitalisation measures, they should examine whether their project can be supported with innovation vouchers, grants or other means of assistance, such as professional development schemes and coaching. The digital pilots offer their advisory competence also for this purpose. Even though each company needs its own specific digitalisation strategy, practical examples from other companies can provide useful hints and tips.


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Name: St Tola Ash Log
Country Of Origin: Ireland
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Pasteurised/Unpasteurised: Unpasteurised milk
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Rennet Type: Traditional Animal Rennet
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David T.W. Chiu, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P.
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Dr. Chiu is Professor of Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery of New York University and Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology of Columbia University. He received his M.D. from Columbia University, College of P & S in 1973. He had post-graduate training in surgery, plastic surgery and hand surgery at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and New York University Medical Center in New York City respectively. Currently, he is the Chief of Hand Surgery, and Director of Nerve Center in the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery of New York University Medical Center. He is a superb surgeon and a thoughtful physician, who is constantly innovating and striving for perfect harmony of form and function. He is intuitive, methodical and ……… more >>
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Dr. Li was born in Nanking, China and came to the US in 1949 to obtain higher education, following a childhood in Havana, Cuba, where his father was in the diplomatic service as Chinese Minister to Cuba (1939-1947). He attended Harvard College, then Harvard Medical School and came to New York City for post-graduate training in internal medicine and pathology at New York University-Bellevue Hospital. For 25 years, he was successively Director of Pathology and Laboratories at two New York City municipal hospitals affiliated with Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. In the early 1970's, he introduced to his hospital in the south Bronx the first computerized laboratory report system within the hospitals run by the Health and Hospital Corporation, thereby making lab reports more readily accessible to the practicing physicians. In 1992, Dr. Li became the Chairman of Pathology at the Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn until his retirement in 2005. ……… more >>
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