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Day: June 3, 2002
Billy Batson, Speak My Name! Okay, Now Pull My Finger!
Well, this is one of those situations where it’s pretty dámņëd convenient having my own website. It means that I can address a rumor in one central place.
Rich Johnston reported in “All the Rage” that he’s heard there’s going to be a new “SHAZAM” series and that I’m going to be writing it. Now I’ll grant you, I’ve been out of town for a week. Perhaps there’s something in the hopper at DC and they’re planning to contact me. And there’s certainly some amusement value in the notion of writing two books simultaneously for two companies both featuring a character named “Captain Marvel.” I’m not sure if that’s ever been done before.
But as of this particular moment in time, I haven’t heard boo about it. No one’s called me about it or made any sort of offer. It’s rumor to you and Rich, and news to me. The only thing I can think of is that my continued use of Mary Marvel in SUPERGIRL through to the end of the current story arc in #74 got mushed together with a possible new SHAZAM series, and consequently my name was attached to it.
Still, they always say that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. I’m not entirely sure that’s true, but in this case Rich helped keep my name out there in a manner that, for the first time in ages, has nothing to do with Marvel. Well, actually it does, but not that Marvel. The other Marvel. The Marvel that was Marvel before Marvel was Mar–
Forget it.
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