Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdccs6.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdccs6!ix21 From: ix21@sdccs6.UUCP (David Whiteman) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Fafhrd & Gray Mouser comic strip Message-ID: <1671@sdccs6.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 01:10:52 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccs6.1671 Posted: Wed Aug 8 01:10:52 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Aug-84 01:08:35 EDT Organization: UCSD Medical School Lines: 55 I am posting this article as a favor for a friend of mine. If you desire to reply to this article please leave the subject heading intact, so I can quickly pass your reply on. If you decide to post a followup please also send me a copy. Thank You David Begining of Article: I posted a certain question a few years ago regarding why the "Sword of Sorcery" series was trashed. The answer I got weren't very enlightening. I am posting the same question again, in hopes that some new light may be shed on this matter. For interested people, the "Sword of Sorcery" series delt with Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser and lasted 5 issues. Fritz Leiber liked it, so I don't think they had any law trouble, and all the letters seemed to be positive. The issues are... (oh, by the bye, they were put out by DC) #1 adapted from F. Leiber's "The Price of Pain Ease" #2 adapted from Leiber's "Thieves' House" #3 (an original) "Betrayal!" #4 adpated from a Leiber story, not sure what it's called, but this issue is: "The Cloud of Hate!" (also, an original story about young Faf, "The Prophecy!" #5 adapted from said author's story: "The Sunken Land" (also the original about Mouser's youth: "The Mouse Alone!" The stories were organized by Denny o'Neil. Howard Chaykin did some of the art work, in others Walt Simonson & Al Milgrom did it. A ironic, sad remark found in the letter page of #3 is: "Contrary to certain rumors, there will be a fourth isssue of S of S (and a fifth and . . .) "---- Too-bad they didn't do a story with Hisvet in it (!!!) :-\ The Wraith