In the latest Drawing Crazy Patterns, where we spotlight five recurring themes in comics, we examine five times that comic book characters debuted in “back door pilot” comic book stories.In case you’re unfamiliar with the term, a backdoor pilot is when an episode of a TV series is really secretly a pilot for a whole OTHER series that would spinoff from the main series (the theory being that if you disguise it as a regular episode of a popular series, people will be more likely to watch it and then hopefully get invested in the new character/situation that you introduce in the episode). A notable comic book-related back door pilot would be “Fear” from Super Friends which was meant to serve as a back door pilot for a proposed new Batman TV series. I have a whole feature spotlighting backdoor TV pilots.This one is tricky, in that District Attorney (later Judge) Adrian Chase debuted in the pages of New Teen Titans #23 about a year before he became the Vigilante, and I’m trying to avoid outright spinoff characters (as otherwise, like, whatever issue of Uncanny X-Men that came out before Wolverine got his own comic could be seen as a “back door pilot”), but I think that this really doesn’t fit as a spinoff character, exactly. What I mean is that I think the intent by Marv Wolfman and George Perez was for Chase to become the Vigilante from his debut, and those issues were just set-up for his debut in 1983’s New Teen Titans Annual #2, which led almost directly into Vigilante #1.
In the latest Drawing Crazy Patterns, where we spotlight five recurring themes in comics, we examine five times that comic book characters debuted in “back door pilot” comic book stories.
In case you’re unfamiliar with the term, a backdoor pilot is when an episode of a TV series is really secretly a pilot for a whole OTHER series that would spinoff from the main series (the theory being that if you disguise it as a regular episode of a popular series, people will be more likely to watch it and then hopefully get invested in the new character/situation that you introduce in the episode). A notable comic book-related back door pilot would be “Fear” from Super Friends which was meant to serve as a back door pilot for a proposed new Batman TV series. I have a whole feature spotlighting backdoor TV pilots.
This one is tricky, in that District Attorney (later Judge) Adrian Chase debuted in the pages of New Teen Titans #23 about a year before he became the Vigilante, and I’m trying to avoid outright spinoff characters (as otherwise, like, whatever issue of Uncanny X-Men that came out before Wolverine got his own comic could be seen as a “back door pilot”), but I think that this really doesn’t fit as a spinoff character, exactly. What I mean is that I think the intent by Marv Wolfman and George Perez was for Chase to become the Vigilante from his debut, and those issues were just set-up for his debut in 1983’s New Teen Titans Annual #2, which led almost directly into Vigilante #1.
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