Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing is another one I would love to see completed after DC refused to publish the issue with Jesus Christ in it leading him to leave the series right at the end of his planned run. He has stated that he would be glad to do this issue and complete his run if the powers that be at  DC ever change their mind.

There are a few others that come to mind as well, JB's Hulk and West Coast Avengers runs, the Secret Society of Super-Villains, Big Numbers. I'm curious what some other forum members favorite unfinished runs are. 

Also wanted to say it was really great that JB finished the Next Men story. Next Men had been at the top of my list of great unfinished comic runs for quite some time and it was a real treat to get the end of that great tale.

THE CELESTIAL MADONNA--Steve Englehart's decade-and-company-spanning epic may have been finished at some point, but I didn't see it.  (I believe Marvel did a limited series, but they put such a not-great artist on it, it didn't make a splash and will probably never be collected.)

CAPTAIN AMERICA: SERPENT CROWN, etc.--I started reading during Englehart & Sal Buscema's great run, but I was immediately hit by the reality of the behind the scenes business of comics as Sal left before things were over and Englehart left just after opening a can of worms with the whole "Snap" Wilson thing.  Ideally, I would have liked to have seen these two tie up that era tightly.

LSH BY STARLIN--Jim Starlin (aided by Paul Levitz scripting and the great Joe Rubinstein on inks) crafted what I think might be the finest single issue in comics history with SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #239, which had Ultra Boy on the run and set up a mystery to be solved later.  The sequel appeared later, with Starlin's story truncated and the art ruined by a wholly inappropriate inker--so bad that Starlin took his name off of it.  If Starlin had been allowed to finish the story as intended, the whole thing would have been collectible as a watershed moment in DC comics history.

SPIDER-WOMAN--I happen to love Mark Gruenwald's run on SW.  Certainly the fact that it was set in my town of Los Angeles might have had something to do with it, but I just loved the tone Gruenwald and Infantino set with it--trust me, it was the perfect L.A. comic.  Suddenly, they left and I had to sit through jarring abrupt changes for the next few years until the series was finally put out of its misery.  When I recently found out Gruenwald's leaving was not his choice and he had 100 issues he could have written and he was heartbroken being replaced, I was heartbroken too.

OMEGA AND HOWARD--Likewise, I could have read 100 issues each of Steve Gerber's HOWARD THE DUCK and OMEGA THE UNKNOWN (a highly underrated concept).  At least over 30 issues of his HOWARD exist, but OMEGA barely had a chance.  And Gerber never even got the chance to finish the story.

In an industry where literally hundreds of throwaway issues of the "Big Guns" can be cranked out decade after decade, is it really possible that we only have five issues of THE SHADOW by Mike Kaluta?  Just doesn't seem right.

Smith is notorious for being late on his comics work ( obviously,  he respects other media more when it comes to commitments), and he was greatly behind on this mini-series and the SPIDER-MAN: BLACK CAT mini-series. The DD film was a dud, and Spider-Man took priority,  so Smith finished the Spider-Man series three years later,  or so, but never returned to the DD book. It had but one issue.

Thanks, Jason!  I was aware of some of those, but I had no idea about the collected edition and its new story!  I will have to look for that!

I don't have it but I understand Russ Heath inked the graphic novel and, from what I've seen, it looks more like him than Kaluta.  And the Dark Horse books are not quite the same as those glorious 70's O'Neil/Kaluta issues, right?  It just would have been nice for that particular "iron" striking some more while it was hot.