CBR have posted a great interview with writer Ron Marz on his lost treasure which is due for release November.

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"Archie accepted it, I wrote it and Bernie penciled it and at that point, Bernie was going to ink it himself. But somewhere along the line, Bernie ended up moving to Los Angeles and wasn't going to get a chance to ink it in the near future," Marz told CBR News regarding the project's early days in development. "We ended up going out and had a beer and kicked around what to do with it and I suggest Kevin Nowlan to ink it because I'm a huge fan of Kevin's and I know Kevin is a huge fan of Bernie. That's kind of where everything stopped."

Goodwin eventually succumbed to cancer in 1998, leaving not only Marz with a heavy heart over the loss of his friend, but also left the story they all worked on in publication limbo. "The story kind of became an orphan. It passed into Bob Schreck's office when Bob came to DC from Oni [Press] and Bob kind of took ownership of it," recalled the writer. "At that time, it was decided that the story was just too special to just toss out onto the market as just a single-issue story in 'Legends of the Dark Knight' or whatever Batman book it was going to be in at that point. So, we talked about some different formats for adding some material to it and either none of them quite fit with what we wanted to do or it didn't quite fit what DC editorial envisioned for it."

The tale ended up "in a drawer" for a while, but Marz said that at various points throughout the years he would hear from DC Art Director Mark Chiarello, who took ownership of the story and tried continuously to find a way to publish it. Marz said that ideas included a "lost tales"-type special that included various unpublished Batman stories as well as a Wrightson-centric issue of "Solo." Neither idea panned out, however. Marz said he felt as though the story was to remain hidden forever. The writer even laughed and admitted that when Chiarello approached him at the inaugural C2E2 convention this past April he expressed a little skepticism at the news of the story's impending publication.

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(Source - CBR)