As excited as I was for the Busiek/Perez JLA/Avengers that did see publication in 2003/2004 - I didn't seem LOVE it as much as much as many of my contemporaries.  While the artwork was, again, fabulous, the story seemed to me to lack warmth, passion, and any scintilla of simplicity.

This also got me thinking about other comics that I had been SUPER excited about that never saw print:

NEW TEEN TITANS/UNCANNY X-MEN #2 by Wolfman & Perez

The continuing adventures of the INCREDIBLE HULK by John Byrne

DOCTOR STRANGE by Frank Miller

Anyone else have any almost were/never published comics that they would like to share with the forum?  Please limit your list to comics that were actually in the pipeline, so to the speak (e.g., JB originally being slated to do art chores on X-MEN/ALPHA FLIGHT would count)- do not include fantastical comics that you just WISH were going to be published.

Thanks!

Marc

Here is some art from it:

http://unpublishedxmen.blogspot.com/2013/03/neal-adams-loves -marvel-kills.html

SO gorgeous!!

Marc

I own that deluxe version of the 2003/2004 JLA/Avengers - it's a slipcase edition hardcover (2 books, I believe) - and, no.

What was published were all the penciled pages (never before published in one place before) Perez had completed for the project prior to its cancellation as well as the outline of the story in a per page, short paragraph synopsis.

Marc

Does the rest of JB's run on The Incredible Hulk count? If so, that'd be my pick. I absolutely loved what was already published and it kills me that the rest of the story was never told.      

After reading this announcement following WHAT IF? #36, I figured JB must've had a bunch of stories swirling around his head.

And I want to read them!

It would have included a dying world being strip-mined to death (16), a battle with the High Evolutionary, who would have been revealed to have destroyed Counter Earth after Warlock's departure, and a team-up with Gamora against Drax The Destroyer.  Another one to lay at the feet of Marvel editoral.