8 Awesome Comics That Were Unbelievably Cancelled

8. Frank Miller And Walt Simonson's Daredevil

Two legends of eighties-era Marvel, Frank Miller and Walter Simonson were at one time tapped to do a Daredevil comic together. It was meant to release in the aftermath of Miller and David Mazzucchelli's Daredevil: Born Again, but even after Marvel promoted the collaboration, it never came to be.

There are a whole host of reasons as to why this particular team-up would've been great, not least of which because Simonson was in the midst of his ground-breaking run on Thor. Miller was also at the peak of his powers, having been working on Daredevil since the beginning of the eighties, at which point he totally redefined the character's mythology. It seemed a match made in heaven, but it was just never meant to be.

Miller and Simonson's team-up was only going to last two issues (in Daredevil #235 and #236), but it seems like they had something special planned. The comic would've apparently featured a cameo from Doctor Strange, while the arc in question would've been called The Devil's Own (not to be confused with Alan Pakula's ill-fated 1997 film of the same name).

Speaking to Daredevil fan-site Man Without Fear, Simonson explained the reasoning behind the book's cancellation:

"To the best of my knowledge, Frank never scripted Part 2. I never did pencil Part 1. And the reason was that DD was getting a new regular writer [Steve Englehart/Ann Nocenti] at the time after several fill-ins. The new writer wanted his first issue to come out at the beginning of the summer (the good sales period back then) so our 2 parter was put on hold for a few months. And if there's no deadline, the work never gets done--that's an old freelance rule. The gist of it is that by the time Marvel was interested in having us work on the story, Frank was off doing Dark Knight and I was off doing X-Factor. So it never happened. Too bad--it was a cool story too."