The first two sketches (right) are from my original doddles as I firmed up some of the concepts and designs.

Rory was to have been the Scarlet Spectre before Editorial decided the 'S' symbol was 'problematic'.

The decision was made fairly late in the process as evidenced by Rory still bearing the 'S' logo in the colour guide for the cover that eventually appeared on issue 1

Issue 1 was to have carried the first part of four connecting covers (which appeared on the back of issue 2) until it was decided (at the eleventh hour) that the whole 'team' must feature on the cover-- And, since it was in fashion at the time, that it must also be a 'foil' cover.

In my first draft of notes Kay Cera was to have returned to using her birth name Jasmine, shortened to Jazz, and her codename was to be Mosaic-- (describing her fractured psyche) but DC had just brought out a book with Mosaic in the title, so I switched to Kymera (again alluding to her composite psyche) but Namor's cousin suddenly took a similar name. For a time Jazz became Kay's working codename until I finally settled on Cuckoo.