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Doctor Strange...bring the Jason Blood vibe to Doc Strange; thinking along those lines, I wonder if anyone's ever considered maybe bringing back the "masked" Doc Strange, but have the mask kind of change Doc into a Shadow-like sorcerer, kind of stained by his own contact with great evil sort of thing?
Profits: With guest appearances and maybe even a Defenders undercurrent, this title could see 12 plus issues, at least (and yeah, it's pathetic to say, but these days titles of quality that aren't Big Names don't last)
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD...if you look at the James Bond/Jason Bourne/"24" and comics like the Wolverine "Agent of Hydra/SHIELD" upsurge in espionage stories hitting big with the pop culture, a Nick Fury comic could gather force, particularly if Nick is put back into "the Field" as an agent rather than head of SHIELD...maybe he's demoted and gets his hands really dirty again...comic book espionage could be even better, with Fury breaking into Avengers mansion, infiltrating Doc Doom's Latveria, maybe even on a retrieval mission to Asgard, the possibilities abound.
Profits: readers seems to dig long involved stories about covert operations, as 100 BULLETS and QUEEN AND COUNTRY attests, and even THE LOSERS lasted a couple years I think. Could be a sneaky hit for a couple years, then.
The Invaders (WW2)...of course I'm all over it, don't know about modern readership...let's say the take if slightly different though, and a hero from the present day is accidentally lost in time and ends up in WW2 to fight alongside the Invaders...flip the Captain America dynamic on its head, sending a modern hero back to the 40s, in order to have that contrast that made Cap in modern day (60s) so interesting. But what young hero can be spared, who still has a little recognizability, and is that even necessary? Ideas  (variation not John Jameson, young and with enough intelligence to communicate and reason, still is a curse). Or just create a young superhero who has to learn how to be a hero from Cap, maybe in conflict with Namor's hot-headedness.
Profits: hard to say, but more like mini-series material or even a story to another series
Guardians of the Galaxy...mentioned to a comic friend, flipped over the idea, but I've never been the biggest fan; still, maybe the most popular choice
Profits: maybe huge, considering the Star Wars/Trekkies in comicdom
Black Panther (bouncing between NY and Wakanda)...any time a jungle character hits modern civilization, I'm all over it. Black Panther was my favorite Avenger during the John Buscema 60s.
Profits: well, the Panther has always had a measure of success, and if you can find the right balance of workingman and royalty, and an emotional context for the Panther, or a righteous revenge-driven rage, this series will pile up issues
Ka-Zar (in New York)...like the Panther, but you get down to street level...might be really interesting to see Ka-Zar as some kind of Special Unit of the NYPD, all by himself, tackling super-villains the superheroes haven't time to track...plus a blood feud with Kraven would be nice
Profits: small returns, but I'd read it in a second
The Black Fox (a cheat, I know, but I have not done him in his own title)...the flat fact is, I'd read this over any of them. I hate to think the Fox's future must entail death by Skrull, but it's fine. If I might beg, JB versions of the Destroyer, Whizzer, Blazing Skull must find their way into this series. Plus, this is another chance for JB to finally tell all the Batman stories he probably has stored over a lifetime of professional work, never having a proper place to tell them
Profits: if the Batman connection is embraced instead of denied, this could be a work well-remembered but hard to say with certainty.
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