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The Gambit Comic Book That Marvel Published – Then Lost (UPDATE)

The Gambit Gazette has been on the hunt for a comic book. Gambit: The Hunt For the Tomorrow Stone , published as part of Marvel's CyberComics line, published from 1996-2000 and available exclusively through MarvelZone on AOL.

That is how they did things back then.

And now… no one seems to have copies of most of them anymore. Including Marvel.

This particular issue was referenced in a footnote in Gambit Vol. 3 #12 which seems to have begun the hunt.  The Hunt For The Hunt For The Tomorrow Stone.

Written by Scott Lobdell with art by Dærick Gröss Sr. Scott doesn't remember it –  indeed, he thinks Fabian Nicieza may have actually written it. He certainly doesn't have a copy.  Dærick, however, has some of the original black-and-white art…

Does anyone have any copies of these early stabs at digital comics? And may be willing to share?

UPDATE: It was indeed actually written by Fabian Nicieza who says "I wrote it. I barely remember it… I might have hard copies of the plot or script in an old folder in the basement, but I'm not going dumpster diving to find it. On the list of "Fabian comics Marvel WISHES they could have lost forever," I'm sure this one doesn't even make the top 50."

An ex-employee writes "Produced by Gregg Sanderson, tied into the series Fabian was writing at the time. Very Indiana Jones. Spat is re-aged at the end of it. It should still be on a Jazz Drive archived in John Cerilli's office."

John Cerilli is VP Content and Programming, Marvel Digital Media Group. However Mark O' said a few years ago,

Five or six years back, when I was working on their Official Handbooks, Marvel simply no longer had these. Like many early internet materials, they'd simply been lost at some point in time. My professional archivist side hopes that people holding the originals will either pass copies along back to Marvel, or to some other place which can permanently archive them (Michigan State University's comics library jumps to mind as one of the better possibilities).

Anyone have any other ideas?

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