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Detectives Inc. by Don McGregor Thrilling Detective is really
pleased to present something a little different. Back in 1985, Don McGregor had a vision for a private eye film, about his racially-mixed team of tough New York eyes, based on characters he had originally created for the highly-claimed graphic novel A Remembrance of Threatening Green. He had a script and everything, for what was "primarily a presentation piece," but you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men and McGregors... Undaunted, Don turned around and reworked the film script, transforming it into the second graphic novel, A Terror of Dying Dreams, featuring private eyes Ted Denning & Bob Rainier , collectively known as Detectives Inc. Now, for the first time, Thrilling Detective is pleased to present a glimpse at not only Don's original film script, but also the original comic script for the same scene (both reproduced here, warts'n'all), as well as the actual comic book page that was the ultimate result, as rendered by comics legend Gene Colan. | Film Script | Comic Book Script | Comic Page |
| Film Script | Comic Book Script | Comic Page | Copyright (c) 1985, 1999 Don McGregor |
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Don McGregor is an often innovative and ground-breaking comic writer, who's given us such unique comic book gumshoes as Nathaniel Dusk and Alexander and Penelope Risk and Detectives, Inc. He confesses that his love affair with private eyes probably started with 77 Sunset Strip. In his early teens, he was positive if you looked up the word "suave" in the dictionary you'd see a picture of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. His first private eye comic was actually a fanzine version of Detectives, Inc. way back in 1969 (the characters of Rainier and Denning were originally designed for him and Alex "Blackjack" Simmons to play on film). Early on, Don had commandeered his dad's 8mm Bolex camera, and discovered that if you wrote the movie, and directed the movie and starred in it, you always won the fights. Through his long and varied career in comics, he's written for Creepy Magazine, and scripted such tiles as Panther's Rage, the first comic by a mainstream publisher to have a virtually all-black cast; Killraven, with Craig Russell; the Sabre graphic novel, and the acclaimed Ragamuffins with Gene Colan, the first comic printed in color from an artist's pencils (no ink!). This style was later used to great effect in the second Detectives, Inc. series, and in both Nathaniel Dusk series. Don's currently writing the Zorro newspaper strip, and riding through the wind-swept night, though he swears he'll never abandon his beloved eyes. The original 1980 Detectives, Inc. graphic novel, A Remembrance of Threatening Green, and its 1987 sequel, A Terror for Dying Dreams, have recently been reprinted. And head here for more Thrilling Detective Fiction! |
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