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If you have news on The New Universe or for any reason think something should be posted to this page or elsewhere on this site, please email Mark at grandcanyoncomics.com with the information.  Thanks. 

New Universe Message Board Is Back!
The New Universe message board has returned!  Click here to check it out.  Sorry, the user id Philip Nolan Voigt is already taken!

Historic New Universe Sale!
I just made what may be a historic New Universe sale.  I sold a complete New Universe set, all 174 comics from the original New Universe, for 149.99 plus 15.00 shipping.

This may or may not be a record sale.  I'm pretty sure it is, at least on eBay.

I personally think the winner is astute and got a great deal, as in my opinion The New Universe continues to grow in importance and respect!

Plans for a D.P. 7 graphic novel in 1990!?!
I've recently been in touch with possibly the biggest New Universe fan of them all, Tony Perrozzi, through our New Universe message board.  I thought this post from Tony on the message board was so important, I had to print it on the site.  Here's Tony's recent post.

I was e-mailing Paul Ryan (penciller on every D.P. 7 issue from the regular series and the D.P. 7  crossover in Kickers Inc.) back & forth over buying some original art & figured I'd ask him if any work was actually done for the book. Here's his reply:
Tony,
As far as any projects involving the DP7 after issue #32, Mark (D.P. 7 writer Mark Gruenwald) did plan to reunite them. Dave was with Stephanie. Lenore was involved with the CIA. She was going to bring them all together for a mission. That's all I can remember. If Mark left any notes behind I haven't been made aware of them. Sorry.
Paul

Thanks for sharing that great bit of correspondence between Paul Ryan and you, Tony!


New Universe Counter Display Discovered!
I just discovered a New Universe counter display exists, and have become the fortunate owner of this exciting item.  Is it the only one remaining in existence?


News on The New U's Merc!
I recently discovered the magazine pictured below.  That's Merc on the cover with the scar across his face in the foreground, of course.  The mag contains two pages of a Merc article featuring Doug Murray, who had recently taken over as writer of Merc.  Murray stated in the interview his displeasure at the direction the character had taken, and revealed plans for Merc which I was unaware of until reading the interview.  Murray revealed his plans to kill Mark Hazzard, the original Merc, which occurred in Merc Annual #1, and then replace the character with a new Merc.  Now, after reading Merc 9-12 and The Merc Annual in light of some of Murray's comments in this magazine, it is possible to know for certain who the new Merc was.  The new Merc was Lincoln 'Stryker' Griffin.  Griffin is first seen in Merc issue 9, along with his grandfather and the pigeons the two of them keep.
Following are remarks made by Murray in this magazine regarding the new Merc.  These comments prove Lincoln 'Stryker' Griffin became Merc.
This is taken from page 43 in the magazine, and the heading of this part of the page is 'A New Merc.'
"He comes from a long line of naval officers, and becomes a SEAL in Vietnam.  He was in Vietnam for a couple years, which is where he met Hazzard."
'He lives in Brooklyn with his old grandfather, who gives him some advice.  He's got some oddities about him, which we'll get into in the book- he keeps pigeons and plays the piano, things like that."
Now, one character during Murray's run on the book had a grandfather regularly appear after Murray took over writing Merc and who also kept pigeons.  You guessed it, that character was Lincoln 'Stryker' Griffin, the new Merc.  I've also taken the liberty to denote in our New Universe Comics price guide Griffin's first appearance.