Scooby Doo, Johnny Bravo, The Flintstones, and The Jetsons Scripts

I've written my fair share of comic book stories based on cartoon characters over the years, including many from the old Hanna-Barbara studios and Cartoon Network properties (many published by DC Comics, a sister company in the great big Time-Warner Family).

SCOOBY DOO: "Sunday in the Park With Scooby" Script (Scooby Doo #143)........................................................................$10.00

SCOOBY DOO: "Read All About It!" Script (Scooby Doo #156)........................................................................$10.00

JOHNNY BRAVO: "Johnny Delivers" Script (Cartoons Cartoons #22)..........................................................................$10.00

THE JETSONS: "Student Exchange" Script (The Flintstones/The Jetsons #19)...............................................................$10.00

THE FLINTSTONES: "Sherock Stones, Master Detective of Bedrock!" Script (The Flintstones/The Jetsons #20)..........................$10.00

Superman Online Animation Script

In 2001, I made my first, and so far, only, foray into animation for an online Superman series produced by Brilliant Digital Entertainment. The stories and scripts were being sourced by the good folk in DC's own digital department, so I was able to get in on the fun.

The Multipath Adventures of Superman (which was also released on DVD-ROM and is available for viewing online, I believe, but only on PCs) worked like this: each 6-minute  episode (usually 6 per storyline, of which there were 11 or 12) allows the viewer to make a choice on which way the action will go at several critical junctures of the story. Choose correctly, the story continues. Incorrectly, you could actually kill Superman or Lois! Of course, you then went back and made a different choice to allow the story to continue, but it was a fun interactive experience and the animation was, for the time, not shabby.

I wrote the 11th series, "When Titans Am Clashing!" The story involves Darkseid and DeSaad of the New Gods messing with Bizarro in their eternal quest to spread evil and destroy Superman. The script features all 7 episodes (they let me do a bittersweet little Bizarro epilogue episode to cap the main story), including all the different "choose your own" alternatives, 72 pages of manuscript in all.

SUPERMAN ONLINE ANIMATION Script...........................$40.00

ARION, LORD OF ATLANTIS Series Proposal

Arion, Lord of Atlantis began as a back-up feature in the pages of WARLORD #55 (March 1982), and lasted there until #62, after which he gained his own title, beginning in November, 1982. Somewhere between March and probably summer of '82, I wrote a proposal to turn this back-up into a book-lengther. I no longer own the original, but I did scan it before it left my hands.

The proposal itself is relatively short, a little over a page, but the real treat are Jan Duursema's original character drawing of the main characters, 7 pages of 'em. It also includes the original back-up series story synopses (5 pages), then going under the working title "Atlantis," with a lead character the sorcerer 'Tynan'! Plus, the cover page, so if you like your sword & sorcery, this might be the proposal for you.


ARION, LORD OF ATLANTIS Series Proposal........................$20.00

CHECKMATE #1, Signed by Kupperberg & Erwin

Just found a stash of 6 copies of CHECKMATE #1, signed at the top of page 1 by artist Steve Erwin and myself.

These were the leftovers of several thousand copies we signed to fulfill a subscription offer for the title when it first came out in April 1988. I still get phantom hand cramps thinking of the two days I spent in an office at DC Comics, signing books...signing books...oh, dear lord, >sob!<, the signing never stopped!

Mailed boarded and bagged.

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CHECKMATE #1, Signed by Kupperberg & Erwin..........$20.00

POWER GIRL Series Proposal, 1987

A glance behind-the-scenes of what it takes to sell a comic book series...in 1987! I had a long association with Supergirl in the days before Crisis on Infinite Earths. In the post-Crisis world Supergirl had been retconned out of continuity, leaving behind two unpublished scripts for a 'new direction' series, the first issue of which was penciled by Eduardo Barreto and lettered. Ditto, by the way, for a never-published last issue of The New Adventures of Superboy, and two scripts for his 'new direction,' the first of which was penciled by Carmine Infantino--both features were to appear in a 48-page monthly, DC Double Comics.

Alas, Crisis killed that dream...

So when it came time to give Power Girl her post-Crisis retcon, she was handed to me, partly because I was the girl-Superman-character writer (yknow, 'cause of Supergirl...honest!!), and partly because Power Girl creator Gerry Conway had conceived of using my magical character, Arion and Atlantis, to replace her Kryptonian origin. PG and I were together, sporadically, into the 1990s, when I was writing her feature in Justice League Quarterly. I also wrote a 1987/1988 Power Girl miniseries, the proposal for which still exists, and copies of which are now available. It's 5-densely packed pages of type, a cover sheet, plus the 3-page outline for the miniseries that ultimately came of the proposal, which includes a few of my hand-written notes, probably scribbled during discussions with editor Bob Greenberger.

POWER GIRL Series Proposal, 1987.............$10.00

PHANTOM STRANGER Miniseries Scripts

Way back in 1987 I wrote a Phantom Stranger miniseries, a moody little drama pitting a humanized Stranger against Eclipso for the soul of humanity. It was magnificently illustrated by Mike Mignola and P. Craig Russell and remains one of my all-time favorite jobs. My scripts, though a tad overwritten for my tastes today, don't entirely suck either.

Copies of the scripts for the first three issues survive, the first two featuring editor Mike Carlin's hand-edits.

The cover to #3 is one of my all-time favorites, featuring President Ronald Regan machine-gunning down the Stranger!

THE PHANTOM STRANGER #1 Script.............$20.00
THE PHANTOM STRANGER #2 Script.............$20.00
THE PHANTOM STRANGER #3 Script.............$20.00

CHECKMATE! The Original Proposal + CHECKMATE! #1 Plot

An interesting look (at least I hope so) behind the pitching process in the comic book biz. This is the proposal for CHECKMATE!, the costumed spy series I created in 1988, spinning out of my 30+ issue run on VIGILANTE. CHECKMATE! ran 32 issues, plus crossovers with other books like SUICIDE SQUAD, as well as a recent 30-issue run under writer Greg Rucka.

John Byrne's original design for the Knights is included, as are Steve Erwin's character drawings for the new supporting characters and Checkmate! HQ designs. It's 9 pages of my proposal (outlining the agency, the characters, the command structure, series tone, possible storylines, etc., followed by 18 pages of art and designs (1 page by Byrne, the rest by Erwin).

But wait...there's more! Not Ginsu Knives (I wish!), but the plot  for CHECKMATE! #1! Act now!


















CHECKMATE PROPOSAL & CHECKMATE#1 Plot...........$20.00

ADVENTURES OF BATMAN Hardcover Anthology

Adventures of the Batman was a hardcover compilation of stories published first published in several paperback Adventures/Further Adventures of Batman anthologies published in the 1990s by Bantam, edited by Martin Greenberg. I had a story, 'Creatures of Habit' in the Catwoman themed collection that was reused here.

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Adventures of the Batman Hardcover......$20.00

OCEANS OF MAGIC, Paperback Anthology

This anthology, co-edited by Brian Thomsen and Martin Greenberg features my story 'Walk Upon the Waters,' or what I like to call "The Last Arion Story." It's the story of an ancient Atlantean sorcerer embarking on his last journey to face his ultimate fate against old foes and the coming world.

Oh, Arion Lord of Atlantis was a sword and sorcery comic book series I created and wrote in the 1980s.

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Oceans of Magic paperback............$10.00