Steve Gerber’s posthumous Man-Thing story “The Screenplay of the Living Dead Man”, with art by Kevin Nowlan, originally planned as a 1980s graphic novel before being left uncompleted by the artist, was revived in the 2010s and appeared as a three-issue miniseries cover-titled The Infernal Man-Thing (Early Sept.-Oct. 2012). The story was a sequel to Gerber’s “Song-Cry of the Living Dead Man” in Man-Thing #12 (Dec. 1974).
From the screenwriter of the MAN-THING movie comes this prequel exploring the disappearance of the local sheriff in a backwater bayou town plagued by mysterious and horrific events. Featuring some of the cast from the film, as well as a new character – an unflappable insurance-claims adjuster named Nathan Mehr – this story further explores the mythology and backstory introduced in the movie, ending where the big-screen adventure begins.
A second Man-Thing series ran 11 issues (Nov. 1979 – Jan. 1981). Writer Michael Fleisher and penciller Mooney teamed for the first three issues, with the letters page of #3 noting that Fleisher’s work had received a great deal of negative criticism and that he had been taken off the book. He was succeeded by, primarily, writer Chris Claremont and illustrators Don Perlin (breakdowns) and Bob Wiacek (finished pencils). Claremont’s stories introduced the Man-Thing and Jennifer Kale to Doctor Strange (whose series he was concurrently writing), after which his material focused on two new supporting characters: John Daltry, Citrusville’s new sheriff, and Bobbie Bannister, a formerly wealthy girl who is the only survivor when her parents’ yacht is attacked. These characters’ stories he resolved by tying them to a resolution for his own War Is Hell series.
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