1979: MARVEL BULLPEN BULLETINS (Marvel UK)

From 1979: The British Marvel Bullpen Bulletins page plugs the delights of Dez's TV HEROES, a STARBURST-alike which intended to expand the franchise to cover general small screen shenanigans.  

The project never progressed beyond the pilot (a familiar TV tale) which either means that sales and trade reaction was stunning enough to make it viable.  Or the British Bullpen concluded that the amount of effort involved in putting together another magazine (or top of the weeklies and monthlies) just wasn't possible.  

There's also another plug for FOOM issue 23... another much-hyped project that ultimately failed to fly. 

This appeared in MARVEL COMIC issue 344 (30 May 1979). 

1993: MARVEL UK'S BULLDOG BULLETINS

This is another entry in MARVEL UK's shortlived version of the familiar Bullpen Bulletins page: BULLDOG BULLETINS.

This maintained the great tradition of combining company news and updates with puff pieces for assorted upcoming projects.

This page appeared in GENESIS 92 books cover-dated November 1993.

I've posted a couple of other Bulldogs in the past:

This page, also from November 1993 (but I think, chronologically, it follows this one) books, is here.
And this page, possibly the last, is from December 1993.

1992: MARVEL UK BULLDOG BULLETINS

BULLDOG BULLETINS
December 1993
Marvel UK

This is the third (?) and - I think - final edition of Marvel UK's BULLDOG BULLETINS, as published in the GENESIS 92 US line with December 1993 cover dates.

Once again, this British equivalent of Bullpen Bulletins was being overtaken by events as the line unraveled faster than the promotions people could keep track.  RED MIST 20/20, a crossover event launching three new books, didn't happen because all three were cancelled pre-press.  Presumably, the creative work for at least the first issues of all three must be (or was) knocking around somewhere.  As I posted yesterday, the new MOTORMOUTH series and TIME STRYKE were also no-shows.  I have no idea what TOTAL DEATH (surely the ultimate Marvel UK comic title!) would have been... but DHII was bound to figure....

1992: MARVEL UK BULLDOG BULLETINS

BULLDOG BULLETINS was a late-entry Bullpen Bulletins style page of behind-the-scenes and hype that appeared in the US GENESIS '92 books just before the Marvel UK line imploded.

It's notable for plugging several current or upcoming titles that were overtaken by events and never appeared.  Amongst those AWOL: MOTORMOUTH & KILLPOWER: TATAU (which was probably the same as the second volume of Motormouth & Killpower announced elsewhere and solicited in MARVEL AGE MAGAZINE 129), RED MIST 20/20 (a crossover event that would have appeared in 'ROIDRAGE, DEATH DUTY and BLOODRUSH... except they were all cancelled at the last minute) and TIME STRYKE (of which I know nothing).  CLANDESTINE - Marvel UK's great hope - did eventually appear... albeit from the New York office.

I assume Bryan Hitch's profile piece was compiled entirely in jest.

This appeared in US format M-UK comics cover-dated November 1993.

See here and here for more on the US-format line... including several abandoned books.