John Asperger
03-30-2010, 06:46 PM
What about stories that explicitly remake or...what is more pretentious word now ? " Re-think " ? I'm not sure...old stories ?
( It was " reimagined " that I was thinking of , as I'll say below this post . )
A yearish back , a Len Wein-written SUPERMAN/BATMAN annual was a story of a villain who looked like the SA villain the Composite Superman , but he wasn't called that , nor did he demonstrate the CP's powers , nor did the story seem like any CP story I remember .
Was it a rewrite - " repurposing " - of one of Len's old stories ? No other name was mentioned .
Of course , probably best-known here , Mort Wesinger , when he edited Superman's titles , would often straightforawrdly re-do a story five-seven-nine years later , on the theory that the was a whole new audience out there .
These stories got defined as Earth 2/Earth 1 splits by a later generation of fans .
Immediately post-Crisis , DC messed around with official rewrites of pre-Crisis stories . I remember remakes of " The Penny Plunderers " and " Flash Of Two Worlds " , but DC seemed to drop that fairly quickly .
In recent years , the THE PHANTOM newspaper strips has sometimes had stories that were done for the Scandanavia-produced Phantom comic bookd redone in the King Features comic strip .
Towards his end on THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN , Stan Lee did a colorized , partial reprint of the story from the 1968 THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN , b&w , mixed in with new material tying it into the 616 of 1972 , not 1968 (though that's a touch different) something which has given Marvel continuity diehards headaches .
( It was " reimagined " that I was thinking of , as I'll say below this post . )
A yearish back , a Len Wein-written SUPERMAN/BATMAN annual was a story of a villain who looked like the SA villain the Composite Superman , but he wasn't called that , nor did he demonstrate the CP's powers , nor did the story seem like any CP story I remember .
Was it a rewrite - " repurposing " - of one of Len's old stories ? No other name was mentioned .
Of course , probably best-known here , Mort Wesinger , when he edited Superman's titles , would often straightforawrdly re-do a story five-seven-nine years later , on the theory that the was a whole new audience out there .
These stories got defined as Earth 2/Earth 1 splits by a later generation of fans .
Immediately post-Crisis , DC messed around with official rewrites of pre-Crisis stories . I remember remakes of " The Penny Plunderers " and " Flash Of Two Worlds " , but DC seemed to drop that fairly quickly .
In recent years , the THE PHANTOM newspaper strips has sometimes had stories that were done for the Scandanavia-produced Phantom comic bookd redone in the King Features comic strip .
Towards his end on THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN , Stan Lee did a colorized , partial reprint of the story from the 1968 THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN , b&w , mixed in with new material tying it into the 616 of 1972 , not 1968 (though that's a touch different) something which has given Marvel continuity diehards headaches .