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The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde
This link will take you to two excerpts from this original theatrical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stan Barber and Joe Edkin.  The play was originally produced in Budd Lake, NJ, by the Pax Amicus Castle Theatre in 1997. (And, yes, we altered the spelling of Jekyll's name.  This was done for copyright purposes.) The production was revived in September of 2002 by the On Broadway Theater in Coos Bay, Oregon, in a production directed Janet Horton-Payne.

These pages are presented for a number of reasons:

• To give you a feel for the quality and diversity of Joe Edkin's work...
  
• To give aspiring comic book writers examples of professional plots and scripts.  Be aware that there is no single industry standard for the formatting of plots and scripts.  Every writer and every editor seems to have their own variations on the theme.  However, the samples here are as close to standard format as .html coding will allow.  If you were to turn a script in to an editor using the format here, it would be perfectly acceptable.
  
• To give aspiring comic book artists scripts and plots from which they can draw sample pages.  If you are an aspiring comic book artist and do use any of this material from which to draw samples, please credit Joe Edkin for the story.

Quicksilver #13
"Endings and Beginnings"
This is the 22 page plot for the last issue of Quicksilver published by Marvel Comics.  This was written in the "Marvel" style (although marvel wasn't the first to use it, nor do they use it exclusively), where the action is broken down page by page, panel by panel.  The dialog is not written until after the pages are pencilled.

Quicksilver and all related characters are © and TM Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved.

Animaniacs #48
Slappy Squirrel in "I'm Not Your Mother, Kid"
This is a full script (dialog and sound effects inclusive) for an eight page story featuring Slappy Squirrel, Skippy, and Walter Wolf. Slappy Squirrel is vexed when three young ducks imprint on her.

Animaniacs and all related characters are © and TM Warner Bros.

Scooby-Doo #19
"Psychic Psyche Out"
Scooby and the gang travel to Bath, England to solve the mystery of the Ghost of Bath in this ten page story.  The full script with reference photos, original story springboard (with which the story was sold to DC and Cartoon Network), and page breakdown (an outline which has to be approved by the editor prior to writing the full script) are available here. (Story Preprinted in Scooby-Doo Spooky Spectacular 2000 #1 and reprinted more recently in Scooby-Doo TPB Vol. 4--"The Big Squeeze.")

Scooby-Doo and all related characters are © and TM Hanna-Barbera, Inc.

"Brainita!"
As not seen in Animaniacs #47
Brain intends to take over the small country of Oranjina in this all-singing, all-dancing, all-badly-rhymed story.

Sometimes scripts are submitted and then have to be completely rewritten for one reason or another.  Follow this link to read the first draft of the "Brainita" script for the 12 page story.  Editor Dana Kurtin asked for a rewrite as she felt the original version was too complicated.

I can't say that I disagree with her.  I had been trying to play as close to the history and the source material (Rice and Webber's Evita) which I was parodying.

Animaniacs and all related characters are © and TM Warner Bros.

Batman in "Father's Day"
Daredevil in "Father's Day"
These two unpublished scripts were written in 1999 for Joe's "Story Adaptation" classes at The Joe Kubert School.  They are original, thematically & visually interlocking stories that were plotted with the input of the students.  Legal advisor to comic creators, Bob Ingersoll, provided input.  (Check out Bob's column "The Law Is an Ass" published online by World Famous Comics and in print in the Comics Buyer's Guide.)   The stories are not a standard length by any stretch of the imagination, as they were written so that there would be one page per student to be drawn. They are presented here for the sake of aspiring artists who are looking for scripts from which to draw sample pages.  Both stories are cramped at the end (their plots would have been perfect for 22 pages, but there weren't that many students in either class that year), so if you are going to draw from them, feel free to play with the pacing.  Do be sure to give credit to Joe Edkin for the story(ies) if you use the scripts.

Batman and all related characters are © and TM DC Comics, Inc. All rights reserved.
Daredevil and all related characters are © and TM Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved.

"The Seventh Gate"
This horror story was written for a proposed anthology that Joe was putting together. This particular script was illustrated by one of Joe's former students, Tom Martin, as part of the package that will be used to sell the anthology. The script here includes links to Tom's illustrations.