Credits
"Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (48 pages)
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writer:
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David Kraft
D Jon Zimmerman
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art:
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George Perez
Jim Mooney
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Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Artist's Bootleg Edition)
posted Jan 15, 2016, 3:16 AM by Vu Nguyen
MARVEL SUPER SPECIAL #7: SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (THE ARTIST'S BOOTLEG EDITION) (Jan 1979)
Marvel Comics
From grailpage
You are bidding one copy of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band THE
ARTIST’S BOOTLEG EDITION created by me from my collection of material on the
infamous Marvel Super Special issue #7, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely
Hearts
Club Band. This issue was withdrawn at the last minute by Marvel due to
undisclosed reasons and all copies (if any were indeed printed) were
destroyed
prior to distribution. Marvel Super Special #7, an adaptation of the
film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by writer David Anthony Kraft
and artists George Pérez and Jim_Mooney was promoted on the Bullpen
Bulletins page in Marvel Comics cover-dated January 1979. It
was never published in the
U.S. "because the book was late and the movie proved to be a commercial
failure," according to a contemporaneous news account, which added,
without substantiation, that, "Reportedly, Marvel's adaptation was
published in Japan". A French translation was published by Arédit-Artima
under two
covers, one for the French market and one for the French-speaking
Canadian
market. A Dutch version with yet another different cover was published.
Penciler George Pérez, recalled that Marvel had
"...nearly
zero cooperation from the Robert Stigwood company [which produced the
film] and we didn't realize that the [movie] script was still in so much
flux that things we were putting in the comic were not going to appear
in the movie and things we didn't know about were going to be added to
the movie. The plot was so convoluted and cheesy — even on the printed
page — and after a while we realized it was not really going anywhere.
They said they were going to have all these superstars appear at the end
of the film and, of course, in the end they couldn't get them — not
that we could have used them anyway, because we didn't have the licenses
to use their likenesses. Also, I was paired with a very incompatible
inker because the book was running so late. I was doing a terrible job
on it, Jim Mooney was a terrible fit for me — though he did the best he
could — [and] it was just one disaster after another. It was one of the
nadirs of my career. I was so grateful that the book never got an
American release. I've yet to see a copy of Sgt. Pepper."*
A
few copies were printed in foreign language territories such as France,
the Netherlands and Germany, however no English language copies are
known to exist, and even George Perez, who illustrated the comic, has
stated that he has never seen a copy himself, and he said that he
considers it to be “the rarest piece of George Perez printed artwork you
can find”.
Well
look no more!!! I am a collector of original art, scripts, and items
specializing in unpublished or controversial material. Working with the
writer of this issue David Anthony Kraft on other items, he discovered
his original script and the editorial pages that were to be used to
create this issue. I have taken the editorial pages and have created
a few example copies of this comic from my collection to bring the
non-existent into existences, and was able to get George Perez sign a
few copies at this years' Dragon Con as well as the writer David Kraft.
As of now, the only people who have copies of this are Mr. Perez, Mr.
Kraft, and I, so if you are interested in what this might have looked
like, here is your chance. Once again, none of this is original art nor
material, and it is provided as reference material only. Thanks for
Bidding!!!
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MARVEL SUPER SPECIAL #4: BEATLES STORY (1978)
MARVEL SUPER SPECIAL #4: BEATLES STORY (France) (1979) 
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