Void Indigo

Gerber initially shopped the story to independent publishers as well as DC Comics, but could not come to an agreement.^[1] He brought it to Marvel Comics, a company he had recently quit.^[1]

Originally a pitch for revamping DC Comics' Hawkman,^[2] Gerber reworked the story into one of the first graphic novels (Marvel Graphic Novel #11) published by Epic Comics in 1983. It was then meant to spin out into a six-issue limited series by Epic. There were minor references implying that the story was set in the Marvel Universe in spite of it being a creator-owned title.

Due to the comic's extreme (for the time) portrayal of violence, however, distributor reaction to the first issue of the limited series was negative. Critical reaction was harsh for the same reason: in his Comics Buyer's Guide column, "The Law is a Ass", Bob Ingersoll cited the book as being a "crime against humanity".^[3] In revisiting his columns a decade later, Ingersoll edited his criticism to take out "very inappropriate" assumptions about Gerber, although he still found the series to be "pustulate".^[4]

Orders for the second issue dropped due to negative reviews, and Epic's editor-in-chief Archie Goodwin considered it not worth publishing the rest of the series due to the pressures he and the company were under.^[5] Issues #3–6 were never completed, although the synopsis was later leaked onto the Internet,^[6] providing an idea as to how the series would have finished.

• Void Indigo at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Marvel Graphic Novel #11 at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)