Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my look back at my failed attempts to write for DC Comics in the '70s and '80s.
The timing of this shared post is deliberate. Last week, my short story "Guitars Vs. Rayguns" hit comics shops as a bonus feature in AHOY Comics' Billionaire Island # 5. "Guitars Vs. Rayguns" is a foul-mouthed sci-fi rock 'n' roll comedy, and it's a galaxy or two apart from the work I pitched to DC when I wanted to write Batman. But it was my first-ever fiction sale, written and sold to AHOY in early 2019. I've sold a few more since then. After decades of nonfiction freelancing, it's fitting that my first fiction sales would be to my first preferred market, comic books.
In addition to my unsuccessful stabs at breaking into DC, I also submitted something to Marvel Comics, and did telephone pitches to both Harvey Comics and Revolutionary Comics. One of my AHOY sales lifted a fight scene from my Batman-Aquaman fanfic story "The Undersea World Of Mr. Freeze," and I may yet lift something from my unfinished Batman-Wonder Woman story "Paradise Does Not Believe In Tears." Recycling. Waste not, want not.
(Stretching the fanfic thing a bit, I've also posted blog pieces about my ideas for a Justice Society Of America movie and the sort of straight-forward original Captain Marvel adventures I'd like to see. I even wrote a fantasy about former DC Comics star Jerry Lewis participating in a cataclysmic comics crossover crisis. I am indeed still 13 years old.)
But at the chronological age of 60, I'm still writing. For my short story "Guitars Vs. Rayguns," please visit your local comic book store to get your very own copy of Billionaire Island # 5. And you can read about how it all started: my failed attempts to write for DC Comics are the subject of the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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