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CROSSGEN CHRONICLES #2
(Mar 2001)
CrossGen Comics
Check out this custom Omnibus-style CrossGen Chronicles hardbound book, complete with dust jacket.
According to their website (heroesreboundstudios.com) the custom book is about $50, but you can get some discounts if you create your own cover designs, etc.
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George PerezHistory of the DC Universe#1
Page 2 Harbinger Painted Original Art (DC, 1986). After Marv
Wolfman and George Perez created the game-changing Crisis on
Infinite Earths 12-page maxi-series, DC decided to produce a
history of their new retrofitted universe. They again used writer
Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez. From the first issue of this
2-issue tome, we have a page of Perez' own pencils, which he has
very skillfully painted in gouache after the book was published.
(Published color work was by Tom Ziuko.) This page features
Harbinger and the image area on the Bristol board measures 11.75" x
17.75". Signed by Perez in the lower blank area of the image. In
Excellent condition.
And the end result of all this? At DC, it was Crisis on Infinite Earths (a job I turned down, when it was just called The History of the DC Universe) -- and to this day there are people who say Crisis did not go far enough, or Crisis went too far -- or, somewhat after the fact, that Crisis wasn't really "necessary."
And still the dominoes fall. Crisis begat Man of Steel, and Man of Steel begat a whole syndrome. Now it seems a writer cannot begin a run on an existing series without blowing it all up and starting over. (Mea culpa? Not really. I would have been perfectly happy to do the reboot slowly, over several months, within existing continuity.)
So now we find ourselves where we are -- with DC on the verge of "needing" another Crisis,
according to many fans (simply ignoring bad stories being no longer an
option, apparently), and the current regime at M*rv*l trundling as fast
as their pudgy little legs will let them toward the kind of morass that
makes the "need" for the original Crisis seem like smoke and fairy dust.
Re: History of the DC Universw
12/30/02 04:49:10 PM
Wow, I don't remember it being 3 issues
at all, but I do have a vague memory of the timeline. Why that went
away, who knows? Originally, the History was supposed to be the last two
issues (11&12) of Crisis (The History of the DC Universe was
Crisis' original name, by the way). But Crisis expanded in size - though
not content. It just took more pages than originally planned to tell
the story I had previously outlined for ten issues. By the time we
realized that we'd need all twelve issues and that History would have to
be a separate book, Crisis was selling so well the approval of the
History spinoff was instantly approved.
As for why the timeline never happened, as I say, I don't remember.
Love the site Marv. Now on to business.
When DC originally solicited History of the DC Universe, I remember it
was to be a three issue series that featured, among other promised
content, a fully painted time-line by George Perez. Could you shed some
light on how the book changed from three issues to two, and what content
changes were made? By the way, as much as I love HOTDCU, I am very
annoyed by the inevitable retroactive changes that have occured since
it's writing...sigh.
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