The Futurians was a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team was created by Dave Cockrum, and first appeared in 1983 in the ninth of the Marvel Graphic Novels series, then in a three-issue run published by Lodestone Comics.
In 2003, author Clifford Meth revamped the comic as a yet-to-be produced screenplay for IDT Entertainment.
Publication history
The characters first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novels #9 (ISBN 0939766817), and the story continued in a three-issue limited series from Lodestone Comics.[1] The series was reprinted by Eternity Comics in 1987, along with the material from an unpublished fourth issue. In 1995, a black-and-white version of the fourth issue material (along with the short story "Less Filling") was published, as issue #0, by Clifford Meth's Aardwolf Publishing. In an inside-front cover essay that appeared in Futurians #0, Dave Cockrum explained: "The Futurians began as a graphic novel for Marvel (Marvel Graphic Novel #9), wherein I recounted the adventures of eight extraordinary humans with powers gained by way of genetic manipulation from the future. The graphic novel did pretty well, went into three printings, and a series was called for. Unfortunately, I let myself be lured away from Marvel and did the series for an independent publisher who promised pie-in-the-sky money. If I'd stayed with Marvel, we might be publishing Futurians #250 or something by now. Instead, I went with the independent, occasionally called Lodestone Publications, and my run only lasted three issues. A fourth issue was finished; this book you hold in your hands. Due to the vagaries of publishing, however, it never saw print as an individual issue until now. It was collected together with the previous three issues into a limited-edition second graphic novel in 1987.