In fact, I think after "COIE" Thomas was named as the "Earth-2 Editor" but obviously that was a title that proved worthless...
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In fact, I think after "COIE" Thomas was named as the "Earth-2 Editor" but obviously that was a title that proved worthless...
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^I think it was slightly before COIE, but yeah, it did him little good, and he got no extra pay for it.
Secret Origins was also taken from his hands shortly after Crisis as well.
Chris
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The Winter '85 Preview (1986 actually) covers the first few issues of "Secret Origins". They mention up to #7 but the line-up is slightly off from what was actually published. And a Jericho issue by Marv Wolfman was scheduled for #6 but that never materialized.
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According to Thomas, Secret Origins was intended to run like it's original 5 or so issues and alternate between modern hero issues (like Blue Beetle and Firestorm) and Golden Age heroes written and edited by Thomas (Superman, Crimson Avenger, etc). The change to a double sized, half modern/half Golden approach was news to Thomas. Eventually they pushed him out of the book entirely. He had tons of unpublished origins drawn and in some cases inked, including The Ray and Firebrand penciled by Gil Kane, Hawkgirl and Sandy the Golden Boy, all written by Thomas.
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From the summer 1985 preview issue, History of the DC Universe was initially going to be the final two issues of Crisis on Infinite Earths in order to establish the new status quo. However the story kept expanding as the success of Crisis suddenly gave it buy-in across the line as editorial and creators added in their wishlists for things spinning out of Crisis.
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Wasn't Crisis originally called History of the DC Universe? I remember an ad with a silhouette of the Monitor running through the mags quite a bit before Crisis started.
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Since the story wasn't fully formed (the Monitor was originally supposed to be the Big Bad I think), those early silhouette appearances with Lyla/Harbinger-to-be, that were scattered throughout various titles, don't make much sense within the context of Crisis either. What's kind of neat is that Mark Waid was a writer/editor at Amazing Heroes during this period.
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The whole idea of The Monitor as an arms dealer for the badguys in order to catalog the heroes abilities for the upcoming Crisis is one of the weaker ideas of the series...
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Okay, it was DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths.
And yes, it's clear that the Monitor was intended to be an actual villain, with some major back-pedalling to explain his villainous actions later.
Chris
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"The History of the DC Universe" was originally supposed to have a fold-out timeline in each issue (a 3-issue mini-series to boot, not 2) but that was scrapped.
The timeline did show up eventually in the final issue of "Zero Hour".
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