Lost media involving cartoons gets a lot of attention, but there's also plenty of lost comics out there that deserve to see the light of day.
Superman #712 was scheduled to contain a team-up between Superman and a young Muslim superhero named Sharif (actually a revival of an obscure young hero from the '90s who went by the name "Sinbad", now several years older) dealing with racism in his community, but the story was pulled after Action Comics #900 (which featured Superman renouncing his U.S. citizenship) drew unexpected controversy from the media concern that DC was trying to make Superman "un-American". The Sharif story had some early editorially-mandated changes, such as the vetoing of the original idea that Sharif would wear Superman's "S" shield, but with the Arabic letter, before the entire story was nixed. It was replaced by a Kurt Busiek Krypto story that had ironically also been pulled from being published years before. It would be interesting to see the issue now and see whether or not the fears of controversy were warranted.
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Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld finished an entire Killraven miniseries for Marvel, but due to apparent pay disputes Kirkman refuses to share the original art sitting in his closet.
>Kirkman and Liefield
Who cares. It would have been hot garbage anyways
That ain't lost
If it's not available to the public, then it's lost.
So do you reports your mothers butthole as lost to the police or is it open to the public?
I'm so sick of this reinterpretation of what lost media is. It's only lost media if it was publicly released in the first place, moron.
Lost media means it was available to the public but somehow no one can find it again.
OP example is just a cancelled comic
The Alan Grant/Frank Quitely Lobo oneshot called The hand to hand Job.
There's that Luke Cage story that was supposedly inspired by the BLM protests where i think Cage participated in them that Marvel pulled back because they thought would be too controversial.
It was Luke Cage: City of Fire, a Devil's Reigh tie-in. According to the creator:
>Long story short, they sat me down and said, "We're canceling this book. We're afraid that the subject matter is going to be damaging for you. We don't want you to be attacked by right-wing nuts." I was like, "Fellas, I can handle myself. Let them come at me. I have no fear about that. You don't have to do this." I don't know that that's precisely what was going down. I think there were probably some other issues with their higher-ups who just said, "No, this is going to affect our bottom line. We don't want the story out there." That's my suspicion. Nobody's ever come out and said that to me. Also, this was right around the time [of] the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and the decision that had come down, and they were really worried that there was going to be some blowback with the Kyle Rittenhouse lovers of the world or whatever. So they chose to take the cautious route.
Anyone else feel like this was cancelled for being shitty, and all this is Marvel trying to spin it so they wouldn't get bad publicity.
No because Marvel publishes shitty comics all the time. Hell, it's almost all they publish.
nope.
He’s right that higher ups like Disney canceled it because they feared the reactions
Black folklop, all the better it's lost
Wasn't there a Genndy Luke Cage blaxploitation book that never saw the light of day? That sounded a lot more interesting than this shit.
that did came out, it was pretty fun..
There are a ton of inventory stories that just haven't seen the light of day at DC. Basically DC had an extra book produced for every comic they had for years, especially in the late 80's until the late 90's. In order to have a backup incase a delay happened, this was standard for every book.
Marvel did the same thing, but I don't know if there's any fill-in/inventory stories that went unnused from them.
Fill in issues were a thing because of newsstand/spinner rack distribution and the heavy fines for missing a deadline, now that it's gone the Big Two will just let a book be late.
Barracuda was supposed to be introduced into 616, but I guess that never panned out.
the punisher barracuda mini, but then marvel got pressured into trying to demolish frank castle's standing in the universe and to stop using the logo because cops were using lmao.
I don't think that story was finished at all.
Issue 711 advertised that the next issue would be about Sharif/Sinbad. Even if the comic hadn't been finished, it would have to be almost finished by that point given how deadlines in comic book publishing work.
The universally reviled New Warriors relaunch. And nothing of value was lost.
INTERNET GAS
GRANDPA'S INTERNET GAS.
The more I learned about the writer of that shit the more I understood that Marvel Comics was doomed to suck.
Post the image
You know which one
The original Frankenstein storyline in the Hellboy universe got cancelled after the writer got dumped due to being a sexpest. It was all plotted out and had two issues released, I think, but the whole story will never see the light of day now. Once again Frankenstein was cursed by its creator.
How can there be a lost media in Comics and Manga? There are so many Digital Comics Preservation groups and random people with scanners sharing everything for free?
It's mostly things that were announced and maybe even completed, but never released.
And for sure there's old stuff that's been lost to the ages, as well as maybe books that intentionally don't have digital releases and such.
Besides what we're talking about in terms of never released story, there's also tons of material that slipped through the cracks that was never scanned, or scanned in poor quality, or scanned so long ago downloads are no longer available.
It's why I cringe whenever people want comic shops to all close down. Those and independent used book stores are some of the only places I've found some old, out of print comics.
Silent Hill comics
Scans never
do it yourself homosexual