Last weekend, we posted a piece containing the original artwork to a never-completed 1969 MAGNUS, ROBOT FIGHTER story intended for issue #29. The art had been auctioned off a few years ago, and the Heritage Auction listing indicated that the full script was included with it. However, the listing only showed the first page of the script, above.
However, after that piece saw print, I heard from the person who wound up winning that auction and who purchased the materials in question. I’m not mentioning them by name so as to preserve their privacy, but they generously sent me along photographs of the whole of Mike Royer’s script for this issue. And so now I’m sharing them all with you. Thanks so much for your generosity, Heritage Winning Bidder.
Former DC Comics President and Publisher Paul Levitz also reached out to provide a bit of additional context for this script style. He wrote:
“That āpanel blockedā script style was very common at Gold Key, often with sketchy thumbnails or stick figures too.Ā Saw it in the early 70s to mid 70s in work done for Western in NYC.”
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Great stuff! Thank you for sharing it.
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Nice!
This is something like the way I was shown how to write a script, by a friend who had seen a script that Julie Schwartz had shown him.
When Julie saw a sample script I’d written in that format, though, he told me it was the silliest thing he’d ever seen, and showed me what he considered proper script format.
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Was Magnus Robot Fighter terminated with issue #28? I’m not familiar with this. WHY was it cancelled?
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Probably, declining sales as a function of Russ Manning departing to do the Tarzan comic-strip (which he started drawing in 1967) in 1968.
Mike Royer had been a Russ Manning 9and Murphy Anderson ) assistant.
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