A little too late but I found out this morning, regarding my Substack piece about the innovative DC Comic Thriller from 1983, that editor Alan Gold actually offered Thriller to Alan Moore after Fleming left! To wit: "Here's a fun aside. Alan Moore volunteered to take over as writer, but I stupidly stuck with the writer Dick (Giordano) gave me. I saw it as a matter of loyalty. Having been a freelancer for about 10 years (moonlighting as a copy editor when I worked in book publishing), I couldn't warm up to the idea of firing a freelancer. As a result, Karen Berger got her big break with Swamp Thing and I went nowhere (as I deserved, having turned Thriller, among others, into a mediocre bore)."
A little too late but I found out this morning, regarding my Substack piece about the innovative DC Comic Thriller from 1983, that editor Alan Gold actually offered Thriller to Alan Moore after Fleming left! To wit: "Here's a fun aside. Alan Moore volunteered to take over as writer, but I stupidly stuck with the writer Dick (Giordano) gave me. I saw it as a matter of loyalty. Having been a freelancer for about 10 years (moonlighting as a copy editor when I worked in book publishing), I couldn't warm up to the idea of firing a freelancer. As a result, Karen Berger got her big break with Swamp Thing and I went nowhere (as I deserved, having turned Thriller, among others, into a mediocre bore)."
https://web.archive.org/web/20140326110054/http://comicsbulletin.com/columns/5759/the-full-run-the-legacy-of-thriller-by-robert-loren-fleming-and-trevor-von-eeden-issues-9-12/