At one point Dream Corridor's original run was to go past issue 5. Dream Corridor #6 was solicited, but then cancelled and reformatted into Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Quarterly #1. According to Rabbit Hole 18 (The Newsletter of the Harlan Ellison Recording Collection) a format change was made. "Harlan Ellison’s Dream Corridor from Dark Horse comics is a big success. If you’re looking for issues past #5 then I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until next year. Dark Horse wanted to expand the market to the bookstores, so HE and his co-editor Anina Bennett are revamping the format.

Announced on the back cover of Comics Journal #57 (Summer 1980). The ad featured art by artist Michael J. Kaluta (see image in this entry). Copy read: "'Dragon Shadows' / A new chronicle from the secret archives of The Shadow / by Harlan Ellison and Michael Kaluta / A Fantagraphics Publication / Coming This Fall"

In 1998 a DC Comics announced a series of prestige one-shots under the name "Realworlds." Similar to the popular series of Elseworlds specials (stories about their superheroes in some different version of realityg, like a vampire Batman, a Superman who arrived during the Revolutionary War, or a Justice League in America's wild west). Realworlds would look at heroes and the impact they have on the "real world," more like our own.

A story starring Doctor Fate written by Harlan Ellison was mentioned in several different contexts in the early-2000s. Unfortunately, it never came to pass.

After he left Aquaman (with Aquaman #47, August 1998), writer Peter David mentioned that he and Harlan Ellison had talked about writing a storyline involving the Jack Kirby created Fourth World characters “Deep Six.” The story never got to an art or solicitation stage. [citation needed]

Around the time Joe Quesada took over as Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics in mid-2000 there was some discussion of a possible “Dr. Strange” comic to be written by Harlan Ellison and feature art by John Romita, Jr.

In 1998 Marvel Comics filed for bankruptcy. In an effort to bring new life to some of its books they hired artists Joe Quesdada and Jimmy Palmiotti, and their infrastructure at the indy Event Comics, to package a group of titles. Their line, known as Marvel Knights, and focused on "street level" heroes such as Daredevil, Punisher, Black Panther, and Black Widow, before moving on to more popular characters like Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four.