Originally Posted by Wonder Boy
Originally Posted by First Amongst Daves
O'Neal was pretty obsessive about Azrael. It was his pet character. I read somewhere that the title would have been shut down years before because of poor sales, but O'Neal kept it alive through insistence. One Reddit pundit put it down to another "self-insert": https://www.reddit.com/r/batman/comments/11zr9a8/the_dennis_oneal_azrael_self_insert_is_a_little/

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(And needless to say, Ellison pissed off a lot of people he mentioned in that interview. Among them Don Heck, Gerry Conway, and most of all Michael Fleisher, who almost bankrupted COMICS JOURNAL and Fantagraphics with an 8-year lawsuit, that finally went to trial in 1987, where Michael Fleisher lost to an unconvinced jury. )

Ellison was almost certainly stoned during that interview. "He is really is a derange-o." That was over Fleisher's work on The Spectre in Adventure Comics. (I describe Ellison as drunk, but stoned is probably more accurate given the era.) https://www.worldcomicbookreview.co...cs-431-440-1974-5-the-spectre-revisited/

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