Welcome to the 909th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our second legend, we look into the convoluted origins of Dazzler’s comic book debut. One of the more interesting types of legends for me are when it is about a topic that I know REALLY well, and yet I am missing a piece of the puzzle. In the case of Dazzler’s early history at Marvel, I wrote about it so early in my Comic Book Legends Revealed history (my earliest one was over SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO) that my articles are generally some of the most cited on the topic, and yet I somehow totally missed a key aspect of Dazzler’s early days, namely the fact that X-Men #130 was not, in fact, intended to be Dazzler’s comic book debut!Long story short, the deal fell through, Marvel tried to package it as a movie, instead (part of the Casablanca deal involved a possible movie, so it wasn’t like Marvel pulled the idea of doing it as a movie out of thin air), and so the character was now meant to look like Bo Derek (who was close to sign on to play the superhero). That fell through, too, until Marvel finally launched Dazzler into her own series in 1981. This was after she made a number of guest appearances in other major Marvel comic books, including her comic book debut in X-Men #130 by John Byrne, Chris Claremont and Terry Austin…RELATED: Which Iconic DC Creator Wanted to Keep Harley Quinn Out of the DC Universe?
Welcome to the 909th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our second legend, we look into the convoluted origins of Dazzler’s comic book debut.
One of the more interesting types of legends for me are when it is about a topic that I know REALLY well, and yet I am missing a piece of the puzzle. In the case of Dazzler’s early history at Marvel, I wrote about it so early in my Comic Book Legends Revealed history (my earliest one was over SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO) that my articles are generally some of the most cited on the topic, and yet I somehow totally missed a key aspect of Dazzler’s early days, namely the fact that X-Men #130 was not, in fact, intended to be Dazzler’s comic book debut!
Long story short, the deal fell through, Marvel tried to package it as a movie, instead (part of the Casablanca deal involved a possible movie, so it wasn’t like Marvel pulled the idea of doing it as a movie out of thin air), and so the character was now meant to look like Bo Derek (who was close to sign on to play the superhero). That fell through, too, until Marvel finally launched Dazzler into her own series in 1981. This was after she made a number of guest appearances in other major Marvel comic books, including her comic book debut in X-Men #130 by John Byrne, Chris Claremont and Terry Austin…
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