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COMIC LEGEND:
Soulsearchers and Company began life as a Patsy Walker pitch
STATUS:
True
Patsy Walker, Hellcat, was a long time member of the Defenders. When the Son of Satan started hanging around the team, the two eventually fell in love...
They left the Defenders after getting married and set up shop in San Francisco as sort of occult detectives, as seen in this West Coast Avengers storyline by Steve Englehart, Al Milgrom and Joe Sinnott...
Years later, Richard Howell did a few different Patsy Walker stories for Marvel. A truly hilarious metafictional back-up in What The...? #7 (that I will spotlight in the future on its own, as it is THAT good of a story)...
And a brilliant sort of romance comic riff on Patsy and Daimon as occult detectives in Marvel Fanfare #59...
Howell kept pitching Marvel on an ongoing series starring Patsy and Daimon. It never went anywhere, so ultimately, Howell and Peter David took the idea and did it as an independent series, Soulsearchers and Company, at Eclipse and then later Claypool (as Peter David said once, " Soulsearchers was originally Richard Howell's concept for a Patsy Walker ongoing series that Marvel passed on.")...
Originally drawn by Amanda Conner, it ran for many years and hilarity was had by all.
Boy, Soulsearchers at Marvel with Patsy and Daimon would have been one heck of a fun series!
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