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John Byrne
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Not that I am aware of.
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Brandon Carter
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| Posted: 03 March 2026 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | 2
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Since the stats eventually got found, there shouldn't be any hindrance to printing a color version other than DC needing to again get the desire to do so.
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John Byrne
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Not sure they KEPT the stats!
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Joe Murray
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| Posted: 08 March 2026 at 1:37am | IP Logged | 4
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Absolutely love JB’s OMAC!
I recently picked up an OMAC “sample page” that then became page 27 of issue #1. So, JB, you could knock out a couple sample pages, and then just drop them into the continuity of the story?
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John Byrne
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Yes, tho OMAC was the only time I did so.
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Joe Murray
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Ah, interesting tidbit, thx!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 08 March 2026 at 3:42pm | IP Logged | 7
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Actually, there is one other thing that sort of fits. When I decided I wanted to do the Demon, I “auditioned” by producing an entire “pilot” issue on spec. DC editorial liked it, and I signed up to do the series. Then Paul Levitz stepped in, insisting my audition could not be used because I wasn’t under contract when I produced it. I offered to sign whatever was needed to “correct” this, but Levitz was adamant. So I created an entirely new first issue. Over the following months I worked almost all the pages from the audition into the subsequent issues.
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James Woodcock
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Trolling to the nth degree. I approve
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John Byrne
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James Woodcock
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You were told it couldn't be used - you found a way around
that decision.
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John Byrne
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Is that considered “trolling “? I thought trolling was bad.
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Brad Wilders
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Levitz would probably being advised by the lawyers.
In copyright law, a work for hire contract has to be signed before the work is commenced. You could have signed the rights over to DC but it wouldn't be a work for hire, it would just be a transfer of "your" copyright to DC. Those transfers can be reclaimed by the author after 35 years. So, in 10 years, you could have gotten the rights to that pilot script back!
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