For some reason, the other night I figured out what I'd do if I was handed the editorship of GHOSTS in 1980 and decide to convert it into an ongoing series rather than an anthology book.
God knows why.
God knows why.
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Nah, it'll never sell.
Plus, if it's going to be an ongoing series, surely the ghosts should be the leads.
I don't think so.
We all got ideas, but who among us can get Alex Ross on the phone to do the cover for issue #1 first?
It's a good thing I didn't mention my ideas for an early 80s WEIRD WAR revamp, or what I'd do if I was editing FLASH or WORLD'S FINEST back then, too!
(Heck, even 25 issues as a lead in Shadowpact is better than many others)
But I think the series was at least partially done in by inconsistent artwork rather than conceptual problems.
13-30 are all drawn by Kupps, which is consistent but bad.
It was trying to be what I think of as the Lee/Colan DAREDEVIL of...
It was a brave experiment and an artistic success, but the market had moved away from that kind of book by, I dunno, 1968?
My not serious guess is… Funky Phantom! Funky Phantom!
Nah, nobody would buy it.
Plus, it wouldn't sell in the US in 1980.
I don't think Neil used Judge Gallows either, though other writers in the Dreaming-verse did. Or E. Leopold Maas, either.
I did, at one point, write a series about a detective name Tiberius Fox, who was Nero Wolfe in reverse. He was ubiquitous. It was his assistant, Joe Duffy, who was never seen, because he was a ghost.