Pitch for Lost Escapist Story Online

When Dark Horse Comics canceled The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist in January, several stories in the works disappeared with it.

Gone went a story by Howard Chaykin and Jed Dougherty about a battle between several Luna Moths. Gone went Stuart Moore and Phil Winslade’s 1970’s tale of the Escapist and Hunter S. Thompson. And gone went David Hahn’s story too.

Hahn, the artist behind Marvel Comic’s new series The Masked Marvel, had been in the midst of pitching a World War II story featuring the Escapist when he got the bad news.

“Yeah, this story was in the process of being developed when the series was canceled,” he said in a recent e-mail. “I submitted the pitch and gotten notes from Chabon on how to tweak the story, then later leaned the series was nixed.”

But just because the story is dead doesn’t mean the art is. Hahn, being the cool guy that he is, provided this site with the cover for his story, along with an unpublished pin-up of the Escapist and Luna Moth.



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