* Review of Chaykin and Mignola ’ s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser adaptation at The Daily Cross Hatch, from May 17, 2007

Chaykin ’ s revised team consisted of:

Dark Horse Presents returned as an eighty-page anthology comic on April 20, 2011 with all-new stories including a Concrete story by Paul Chadwick, a Mr. Monster story by Michael T. Gilbert, a Crimson Empire story from the Star Wars universe, a new strip called Marked Man by Howard Chaykin, a strip called Blood by Neal Adams ( his first work for Dark Horse ), and a sneak peek of Frank Miller ’ s prequel to 300, Xerxes.

* The comic Howard Chaykin ’ s American Flagg!

Chaykin ’ s main influences are the mid-20th Century book illustrators Robert Fawcett, Al Parker, and others, along with a love for jazz, which is often reflected in his work.

Chaykin ’ s involvement in his original run of the series was that of writer for 29 issues, interior artist for issues 1-12 and 14-26, and cover artist for issues 1-33.

In 1989, a four-issue run was released, then the title was cancelled and relaunched as Howard Chaykin ’ s American Flagg !.

Chaykin also protested DC ’ s proposed system of labelling comics for violent or sexual content ; Chaykin ( with Alan Moore, and Frank Miller ) boycotted DC and refused to work for the company.

In Chaykin ’ s case, the boycott would only last until the early 1990s.

In 1996, DC ’ s Helix imprint published Cyberella, a cyberpunk dystopia written by Chaykin and drawn by Don Cameron.

Pulp Fantastic was part of Vertigo ’ s celebrations for the new Millennium, and although it never sold well, it would see the start of Chaykin becoming more involved with comics over the next few years.

* Don Dale, Style Weekly ( May 21, 2001 ) — Maury Chaykin makes an excellent Nero Wolfe in A & E ’ s new series based on Stout ’ s books.

The Chaykin version of the Blackhawks replaced the original team in DC continuity from that point on, with a few exceptions:

Chaykin also collaborated on two original graphic novels — Swords of Heaven, Flowers of Hell with writer Michael Moorcock, and Empire with Samuel R. Delany — and found time to move into film design with work on the movie version of Heavy Metal.

* A version of the Starker Manhunter appears in the Twilight mini-series by Howard Chaykin and José Luis García-López in 1990.

In 1987, writer / artist Howard Chaykin updated the Blackhawks with more adult characters and story in a Prestige Format, three-book limited series.

Other members added to the Blackhawks in the Chaykin inspired series that followed were Grover Baines ( American ), Quan Chee Keng, a. k. a. " Mairzey " ( Malaysian ), and Paco Herrera ( Mexican ).

The title was written by Denny O ' Neil and featured art by Howard Chaykin, Walt Simonson and Jim Starlin ; the well-received title ran only five issues.

In 1986, another DC incarnation was created by Howard Chaykin.

This first issue was drawn by artists Alex Ross, Jae Lee, Howard Chaykin, and John Cassaday.

In 2006, the series was retitled Hawkgirl with issue # 50 and given a new creative team Walter Simonson and Howard Chaykin.

The series was written by Bill Mantlo and featured art by Michael Golden, Howard Chaykin, Pat Broderick, Gil Kane, Butch Guice and others.

The sequel was again written by Zimmerman, with Howard Chaykin taking over as artist.

After issue # 12, Chaykin continued the story but began to lose interest in the title, concentrating instead on other projects such as his revamp of The Shadow for DC Comics and Time < sup > 2 </ sup >, which was introduced in a one-off American Flagg!

Chaykin returned to the title for a brief run to wrap up storylines before the first volume was ended in March 1988.

This run saw Chaykin return to writing the series, with Mike Vosburg and Richard Ory penciling and inking the interior art, but the franchise failed to recapture its early success and was canceled after 12 issues.

Stories began to violate the rules that Chaykin had explicitly stated in the writer's bible for the series ( for instance, California was said to have slid into the Pacific Ocean, but in the final year of the book, California was merely shown to have been abandoned for reasons that were vague at best ), and characterizations began to drift considerably as well.

One more revamp was done by Howard Chaykin in a six-issue miniseries ( vol.

( December 2004, ISBN 1-4012-0374-4 ), as was the Chaykin mini-series ( March 2006, ISBN 1-4012-0941-6 ).

Howard Chaykin was first introduced to comics by his cousin, who gave him a refrigerator box filled with them.

After this, Chaykin was given various adventure strips to draw for Marvel, including his own creation, Dominic Fortune ( inspired by his Scorpion character, originally drawn for Atlas Comics ), now in the pages of Marvel Premiere.

In a 2012 interview, Chaykin stated " The reason I pulled him out of the period was because I thought it would be commercial suicide to do a period character at that point.

Although Chaykin hoped it would be available in summer 1988, the third book was never released.

Before Chaykin returned to American Flagg !, he revamped another DC Comics character: Blackhawk was a three-issue mini-series that gave Chaykin another chance to indulge in the 1930s milieu, proving itself another successful revamping of a defunct DC character.

This was only the start of an intense period of work for Chaykin at DC Comics.

Despite the involvement of successful SF / fantasy novelists Michael Moorcock, Lucius Shepard and Christopher Hinz, and established comics creators Howard Chaykin, Elaine Lee, Matt Howarth, Warren Ellis, Walt Simonson, and Garth Ennis, sales of the comic books were low, and most of the ongoing titles were cancelled after 12 or fewer issues.

This did not stop it from selling well enough for Chaykin to describe it as " probably, on a per-page basis, the most profitable book I've ever done.

The comics were scripted by Howard Chaykin, who had drawn several issues of the earlier DC title, and pencilled by Mike Mignola, whose Hellboy comic book often has a similar feel to Leiber's work.

Gold later used his First Comics connections to bring Grell, Chaykin, and Truman over to DC to create memorable series like Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters, Blackhawk, and Hawkworld.

Chaykin also drew the character Ironwolf in the science fiction anthology title Weird Worlds for DC.

Chaykin penciled DC Comics ' first miniseries, The World of Krypton ( July – September 1979 ).

Chaykin returned to DC to write a three-issue prestige format mini-series called Twilight, drawn by José Luis García-López, in a style blending Chaykin's storytelling and García-López's elegant line art.

Near the end of the decade, Chaykin started to drift back into comics and co-wrote with David Tischman the three-issue mini-series Pulp Fantastic for the Vertigo imprint of DC, with art by Rick Burchett.

That year, Chaykin and Tischmann revamped Challengers of the Unknown in a six-issue mini-series for DC, as well as writing a mini-series about gangster vampires called Bite Club for Vertigo.

In 2005, Chaykin produced the six-part City of Tomorrow, a DC / Wildstorm production involving a futuristic city populated by gangster robots.

Also in 2006, DC Comics published a two-page Black Canary origin story drawn by Chaykin for the series 52.

He continued to work for DC in 2006 writing Hawkgirl, with pencillers Howard Chaykin, Joe Bennett, and Renato Arlem.

Danner starred in the four-issue miniseries Legend ( April – July 2005 ) by writer Howard Chaykin and artist Russ Heath, published by the DC imprint Wildstorm.