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* Hulkling of the [[Young Avengers]] was originally pitched as [[Gender Bender|a girl who posed as a guy when fighting crime;]] Wiccan was going to [[Gayngst|struggle with the fact that his love interest was sometimes male.]] It's been speculated that creator Allen Heinberg thought this was as close as Marvel would let him get to putting an openly gay couple on the team. Eventually he had a change of heart and asked for permission to make Hulkling 100% male.
** On the other hand, Brian Bendis and Tom Brevoort's steadfast refusal to allow Heinberg to outright overturn Avengers Disassembled via bringing back Scott Lang as Ant Man and redeeming Wanda is why Heinburg bailed upon the title after the first 12 issues. Story notes however, such as Heinberg's plans for a rookie villain version of the original Masters of Evil led by an android version of Egghead were ultimately written by other writers, and the ''Children's Crusade'' miniseries seems to have accomplished the goal of resurrecting Ant-Man and bringing Wanda back.
* ''[[Star Raiders (comics)|Star Raiders]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022203927/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/09/17/comic-book-legends-revealed-278/ was originally intended as a 120-page-long limited series.] Unfortunately, due to [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983]], [[Atari]] canceled the deal with [[DC Comics]] midway through development. With 40 pages of painted art already completed, DC decided to cut their losses by commissioning an additional 20 pages to finish the story, then released it as a graphic novel. Needless to say, the story suffers from the compressed story arc, and many characters and plot points are [[Left Hanging]] as a result.
* The Red Circle: The original plan was that JMS was going to debut them in the pages of ''[[The Brave and the Bold]]'' in their original forms and team them with DC's big names. But apparently DC felt that the spots on ''The Brave and the Bold'' would be better served with the [[Milestone Comics]] heroes instead, so DC and JMS did four one-shots reviving some of them (mostly radically altered) before launching The Shield and The Web into their own titles (with the other two heroes introduced in the one-shots in back-up stories: Inferno and Hangman, respectively). The books lasted 10 issues each, but not before DC publishing a Mighty Crusaders Special at the same month as the ninth issues of the two books! The only major appearance of any of the Red Circle guys in another DC book was when the Shield showed up in two issues of Magog. Currently, they are publishing a Mighty Crusaders six-issue mini-series in order to try to wrap up all loose ends that the earlier Red Circle book had left behind!
** Also, [https://web.archive.org/web/20111105090803/http://www.accomics.com/?p=6941 according to Mark Heike], he planned a proposed 25-page special featuring almost every single REAL costumed hero Archie created (No Pureheart or Captain Sprocket) battling the best of MLJ's [[Golden Age]] villains, with each chapter drawn by an [[AC Comics]] artist. It was slated to revive interest in these heroes, but [[Archie Comics]] did not consider it workable. The material was re-purposed as AC's 2003 one-shot [[Sentinels Of America]]!
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