Very often during Comic Book Legends Revealed, I touch upon comic book stories that, for one reason or another, never got made. The greatest stories never told. Reader Freedy asked if I could collect them all together. This is that collection.
Enjoy!
Click on any story description to go to an old Comic Book Legends Revealed explaining why we never saw that particular story...
Alan Moore's Twilight of the Superheroes
Grant Morrison and Mark Millar's "Evil Professor X" storyline
Kurt Busiek's Avengers: World in Chains
The original mysterious X-Factor villain before it was changed to Apocalypse
Chris Claremont's original plans for the X-Men versus Fury
The original version of the Green Lantern storyline, Emerald Twilight
Cyclops and Jean Grey's marriage in X-Factor
Steve Englehart's Daredevil on the West Coast Avengers
Barry Windsor-Smith's LifeDeath III
The original ending to the original Avengers vs. X-Men
Mark Millar's Secret Society of Supervillains
Marvel Treasury Edition: Marvel Superheroes At the Summer Olympics
A DC Comics anthology starring the newly-acquired Charlton characters
John Byrne's original Kang/Immortus Avengers West Coast storyline
The Original Ending for Armageddon 2001
Showcase #50, the debut of Yankee Doodle!
Christopher Priest's Justice League Task Force mini-series spin-off starring Mystek
Nightcrawler's original birth parents
The original version of the Spider-Man storyline, Sins Past
Alan Moore's original Watchmen pitch
The first Young Avengers series, including the son of Fin Fang Foom!
Ferro Lad is revealed to be black
Nightcrawler's original superhero team
Yellowjacket II joins the Thunderbolts
Grant Morrison and Mark Millar's Marvel 2099
Kitty Pryde in the Fantastic Four
Superman reveals his secret identity to Lois...in 1940!
Mister Sinister's original origin
DC Comic's The Kingdom...the Ongoing Series
Captain America is replaced by Black Crow
Tom Fontona's Batman graphic novel
Roy Thomas's black Captain Marvel series
John Byrne's Captain Marvel series
The original origin for M and Penance in Generation X
Ghost Rider/Casper the Friendly Ghost
Brian Michael Bendis' original Spider-Woman series
Phil Jimenez's Global Guardians
Daredevil's 1980s animated series
Erik Larsen's Elektra is a Skrull storyline
Neil Gaiman's Phantom Stranger
Dazzler as the fifth member of X-Factor
The sexuality of Harbinger's leader revealed
Ann Nocenti and Art Adams' Longshot II
Steve Gerber's 1980s return to Howard the Duck
Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy's Elric
Howard Mackie and John Byrne's erasure of Spider-Man's marriage
Mephisto originally behind the Clone Saga
Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi's Phoenix
The death of Anole in New Mutants
Marlon Mayans as Robin in Batman Forever
Chuck Dixon's Marvel horror team
Mark Waid's original plans for Kang and Thanos in Captain America and Ka-Zar
Mark Waid's original plan for Onslaught
Daredevil as the Mayor of New York
Dick Grayson's original fate in Infinite Crisis
Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Mark Millar and Tom Peyer's Superman 2000
Nightwing and Starfire's wedding
Chris Claremont's plans had he not left Uncanny X-Men
Fabian Nicieza and Erik Larsen's X-Factor
Captain America's 1990s animated series
Adam X the X-Treme the Third Summers Brother
Apocalypse the Third Summers Brother
J.M. DeMatteis' Books of Magic
Jack Kirby's Future Captain America
Neal Adams' God Loves, Man Kills
Superboy TV series in the 1960s
Adventures of Super-Pup the TV series
Steve Seagle's Phoenix storyline in Uncanny X-Men
Alan Moore/John Byrne Superman title
Bob Layton's Spider-Man Graphic Novel
Iron Fist's return in the Avengers
Wonder Woman and Green Lantern as a couple
Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo's Aquaman
Walter Simonson's Saga of the Vengeance of Thor
Art Adams' All-Star Batman and Robin
Jack Kirby's original ending to his Fourth World Saga
The Death of Jimmy Olsen (from AIDS)
Sara Grey as the fifth member of X-Factor
John Byrne's Invisible Woman mini-series
Jeph Loeb and Paul Smith's Superman/Batman/Wonder Woman series