I have a question for those of you who know a lot of DC trivia. There's obviously been hundreds, if not thousands, of unpublished rejected story fragments from throughout DC's history circulating through fan collections. However, I'm on a special hunt related to an upcoming project. I'm looking for unpublished stories that are actually in an almost-completed state or which were completed later by fan and/or creator efforts but remain unpublished by DC.
Here's a couple examples of what I mean, and by "a couple examples", I mean "the only ones I could find":
Superman: "The K-Metal from Krypton!"
Sandman: "Marquee Moon"
The former is a 1940 story by Jerry Siegel himself. Starting from the script and a handful of completed pages that survived the intervening years, a group of fans were able to reconstruct it to an almost complete state (two of the pages have yet to be colored, but all are drawn and lettered).
The latter is a 1997 one-shot intended for publishing from DC's Vertigo imprint. It's not quite completed, but it's close enough for my purposes. Most importantly, every page has been drawn and the speech bubbles have all been added and filled. There's no color and the later pages are missing some background details, but the point is that the story is readable and understandable as it exists now.
Are there any other such stories that have surfaced over the years, or are these two the only lucky survivors? It just seems like there would be more, given DC's volume of output.
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