The “Lost” MOTU Newspaper Strips: The Last Survivors
Written by Adam McCombs
I mentioned recently that Danielle Gelehrter had sent me a box of her materials related to her research for various Masters of the Universe book projects, in particular her work on her 2017 book, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Newspaper Comic Strips. Today I’d like to share with you three “lost” weeks of those strips that didn’t make it into the book. Many thanks to Danielle for sharing these for the blog!
The Last Survivors
The last story covered in the book was The Last Survivors. It represented a transition from traditional MOTU into the New Adventures series of stories, and featured a lot of panels with familiar MOTU characters and costumes.
Unfortunately several stories in the book were missing comic pages. Any missing strips were represented in the book with a placeholder summary description. I gratefully received several missing comic pages from Danielle that were not included in The Last Survivors in her book. I’ll first post the placeholder text description from the book, and then immediately after I’ll post the corresponding lost comics that weren’t included in the book.
The Last Survivors
Story: Chris Weber
Art & Original Lettering: Gerald Forton
Colors: Connie Shurr
Editor: Karen Willson
Missing Section 1
Missing Section 2
Missing Section 3
Missing section 4
This Sunday strip described below is still missing:
Missing Section 5
Missing Section 6
Additional Missing Content
Weeks 237 and 238 are unfortunately still missing. If you happen to have those strips (or any other missing strips from other stories in the book) and wouldn’t mind sharing a scan for this site, please comment below!
I have quite a bit more material related to the MOTU newspaper strips, including scripts, outlines, correspondence and other material. It will take me some time to go through and figure out how to present. Looking at it all, it will probably be spread out over a year at least, interspersed among other planned articles for the blog.
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This is great. Thanks for posting.
I’ve been out of the loop since He-Man.org shut down. Have any other missing panels turned up since the book was published?
These are the only ones I know of. I’m hoping more are found so they can be posted as well
Maybe the newspaper strips book should have been released in two volumes so there’d been enough time to find the missing ones in time for the second one while still having the first one out of the gate. All the missing strips are from the second half anyway, right?