The best comic storylines never told

Mark Millar meets Stan Lee before getting his first writing gig, he says something that pisses off Mr. Lee and gets blacklisted from the industry. Meanwhile Joe Quesada decides to try for a music career in stead of comics art.

the world becomes a better place :rolleyes:
 
Mark Millar meets Stan Lee before getting his first writing gig, he says something that pisses off Mr. Lee and gets blacklisted from the industry. Meanwhile Joe Quesada decides to try for a music career in stead of comics art.

the world becomes a better place :rolleyes:

Not the music world, I suspect.
 
"The Challengers of Unknown",when Jack "The King" Kirby come back to DC in early 70s.
Wow!! what a comic! :rolleyes:
And you know what want Kirby in origin?
"Jimmy Olsen" :eek:
My god can imagine this?
"Jimmy Olsen" instead of Challengers :(
 
June 1938: A photo in Metropolis’s Daily Planet shows a man wearing a brightly coloured outfit and cape lifting a car above his head while saving a man trapped underneath it. Headline reads “Who is this Super Man?”

May 1939: A group of policeman watch in awe as a struggle between a man wearing a fine suit with a red helmet and man in a dark, bat costume ends with the Red Hood falling off a scaffold and into a chemical vat below, despite the Batman’s attempt to save him.

September 1939: After giving out his broadcast to the World about the outbreak of the War, Neville Chamberlain is given a note by an aide regarding some good news about a man calling himself ‘Captain Britain’.

June 1940: An exhausted Captain Britain is on a boat back to England after helping evacuate the entire Allied force stranded in Dunkirk. Looking over the bow of the ship, he gives a salute to an Ally in these troubled times, Orin, King of Atlantis. The salute is returned before Orin dives beneath the waves once more and some planes pass overhead over the clear blue sky, heading home.

January 1941: From a small distance away, Nick Fury watches the cheering British soldiers as news of the utter destruction of the Italian forces in North Africa reaches them, an extra cheer going up for their hero and his aid in the campaign, Captain Britain. Fury looks away; correspondence taken during the campaign has convinced him further of the need to bring America into the War fully prepared.

December 1941: As he helps the injured survivors from the sudden attack on Pearl Harbour, Superman is approached by a Government agent asking him about the Avengers Initiative, prompting a refusal due to his reluctance to be drawn into a War.

February 1942: In front of a banner reading ‘The Avengers’ Captain Britain, King Orin, Captain America and Princess Diana stand side by side as photographs are taken on the White House lawn, preparing to leap into the War and avenge the losses of the Allies.

October 1943: With the sound of guns blazing and the screams of dying men all around them, the Avengers aid the Allied strike into Southern France and the liberation of Marseilles. The collapse of Italy due to Allied assault had left the path open for France although the Soviet assault into Eastern Europe was quickly gaining speed…

April 1944: The Tricolour is flown once more over the Eiffel Tower, a photo shoot with the Avengers taken with them in the foreground, the liberation of Italy and the pincer attack in France leaving Germany open to invasion from the west. Below the Tricolour however is a harbinger of things to come, the Socialist flag.

November 1944: Captain America looks to the sky as he sees Superman grab a hold of the nuclear missile launched by the Nazis and take it high into the air, letting it explode at an isolated point, away from harm. Superman would resurface in the Atlantic Ocean, injured but recovering from the after affects of the blast. With their last ace in the hole gone, Germany shall soon surrender before the Allied assault.

February 1945: News of the Japanese surrender has reached America and the cheers of the crowd can be heard throughout the night. In San Francisco, the seat of the new UN, Nick Fury is asked about information he gained about German rocketry during his missions by Dr. Reed Richards on behalf of Wayne Enterprises.

December 1946: An explosion rocks Yan’an and as people rush to where the burst came from, they start to realise that the head of the Communist Movement has been decapitated completely. The meeting between Mao and the other Communist leaders has ended in disaster with the party now left without guidance. As Frank Castle runs in darkness from his latest successful mission, he reflects that at least Asia won’t go Commie in the same way Europe did…

August 1947: In a small room at the back of Downing Street, several Military and Government figures meet to discuss the creation of a Commonwealth League of Superheroes, the US Government becoming both protective and suspicious of it own Justice League. Names are thrown around with five eventually appearing to be short listed. Captain Britain of England, a Canadian soldier named Logan, Pacific War veteran George Harkness, Kenyan national Ororo N’Dare and from South Africa, Dominic Mndawe. A strange mix but as Britain bids adieu to many other colonies and both America and the USSR glare at each other from over their fortresses, the small island needs all the friends it can get.

March 1948: A beaten man, suspected of multiple counts of rape is found on the street outside of a Gotham police station. Commissioner Gordon keeps a smile to himself after lighting up his pipe. Apparently Batman was not going to allow the Government to force him into taking a ‘loyalty oath’ like they had with the Justice Society. Despite the worsening relations with the Soviet Union, Batman would fight his War on crime his way and no one else’s.

May 1949: Detective John Jones looks upon the crime scene and grimaces. He had been placed upon this World by accident and now, he was serving its inhabitants not without reluctance in Gotham City. The latest crime wave of the Joker’s was brutal, the man claiming he was celebrating some kind of anniversary. Knowing that the Batman would soon appear, Jones starts to gather what information he could from the scene, wondering how long it would be before all this ended.

August 1950: Looking down, Benjamin Grimm lets out a whoop and calls out “Not bad for a Yancy Street kid huh?” As the camera held by Superman shows, no it’s not, the view of the Earth from space shows live around the World’s and its first astronaut gives a thumbs up to the camera, certainly something that Mrs. Grimm would be proud of.

January 1951: Surrounded by dignitaries from nations such as India, Indonesia, Argentina and various other countries, King Victor Von Doom signs his name onto the Treaty establishing the Non-Aligned Movement. The tiny Kingdom of Latveria is one of the few nations left in Europe free from Soviet influence, a fact Doom is going to use to his supreme advantage with this Non-Aligned Movement for extra influence in the World, Americans and Russians by damned both.

July 1952: Walking round his new offices in New York, Anthony Stark feels more than a little confidence regarding his new venture. Stark Industries were the rising industrial power in America, slowly shooting for second place behind only Wayne Enterprises. Of course, Stark had an advantage over them, his new Weaponry Research Division, something Wayne oddly always had forbidden in his own company. Stark knew Wayne for the fop he was so he was unable to see the reasoning behind it. Still, just meant that OsCorp would be shifted down to third place, right where it belonged.

November 1953: In San Francisco, three shots ring out across the plaza in front of the City Hall. President MacArthur clutches his chest and falls to the ground, blood pouring from his wounds. From his hiding place, David Cain nods in satisfaction at the efficiency of his rifle’s silencer, knowing the killing bullet will never be traced to him. As he quickly makes his escape, Captain America tries desperately to resuscitate the President, having failed to prevent the bullets from hitting him.

March 1954: Before the watchful eye of the American public, Oliver Queen stands before the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations and enters a shouting match with Senator McCarthy. The highest profile Superhero to be brought before the commission under accusations of having Communist sympathies, Queen proudly states that he is with the poor of America and if that makes his a Communist, then McCarthy can go to Hell. The courtroom erupts into chaos and Queen makes his escape before he can be arrested, soon becoming one of several outlawed Superheroes who defy the stringent anti-Communist measures of the Government.

December 1955: Under a banner reading NAACMP, Martin Luther King Jr. praises the efforts of the organisation for the advancement of minorities in America. Beside him is Professor Charles Xavier and one of his pupils, Scott Summers who smile at the speech. Hand in hand with the march of greater rights for African Americans, the rights of Mutants would soon hopefully follow.

June 1956: Side by side with an ill looking Senator McCarthy, Fredic Wertham condemns what he sees as a lack of Government initiative in tackling the subversive tendencies of Superheroes who showed Communist sympathies or sexual degeneracy such as Batman. It is the latter that is coming under major attacks right now, his history of having a young boy as a sidekick and now, what appears to be a teenage girl dressed in tight fitting leather screams of something illicit. Up and down the country, Wertham is doing his best to bring in a more ‘moral’ code for Superheroes although what impact it’ll have is still up in the air.

January 1957: As President Nixon is sworn in, flashing lights from the cameras taking note of the event as Nixon takes the oath for the second time. One such camera is held by a young Peter Parker who hopes that this is one Daily Bugle assignment that won’t result in him putting on the costume…

June 1958: Standing before the still damaged Houses of Parliament, the heroes who took part in repulsing the Martian invasion of Earth, some of them aged from their long battles over the years but joining together as the new Justice League. Looking over at the scene of a victorious battle are Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, U.S. Agent, Captain Britain, Lionheart, Crimson Dynamo, Martian Manhunter and Steel. All of them aware of this anniversary and the fact that this now opens up a Brave New World to explore.
 
the damage would be heavily limited, to get a similar situation with music would be for him to posess the body of Stephen tyler and have him turn aerosmith into a boy band that does bad covers of 98 degrees songs.

And we both know that he would somehow find a way to make that happen.

"You know what? Since our fanbase is made up of teenagers who aren't having sex yet, why are we singing all of these songs about sex? Let's sing about romance and looking cool!"
 
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