I got a message out of the blue from one of the old Fleetway managers who had seen my post mentioning the comic The Supernaturals and I was told some of my scripts were used but had been "adapted" by the editor....which is why I never got paid. 'Big surprise' there.
He also mentioned The Paranormals that I had created to take over from the cancelled The Supernaturals because of the Tonka Toys contract ending (or whatever). It seems that Gil Page, then Managing Editor, had convinced "the men in the board room" to publish just 12 issues and some of my mock up covers were used (I seriously cannot rememberthem but I was doing mock ups all the time back then.
Gil had told me that Scream was not the horror comic he wanted: "If you are going to do a horror comic make it a horror comic!" And that's what I did. Today I found out a lot including that a certain rather jealous (!?) editor had actually sent copies of the contents and some of the character sketches of Paranormals to "the board" along with a strong "put the boot in" whisper. The boardroom boys were apparently horrified -though they had no real idea about comics but...you could NOT sell this type of thing to children!
End of project.
People within comics supposedly trying to create comics spending more time blocking comic creation. British comics business in a nut-shell.
Ugh. I have an ensorcelling urge to dislodge a wad of phlegm.
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