WONDERCON: BONGO COMICS PANEL

SAN FRANCISCO -- The next Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror comic will reunite two pairs of horror comics teams from the 1970s, Bongo Comics' Bill Morrison said at a WonderCon panel on Friday.

"We actually got Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan to do a Dracula parody with Mr. Burns cast again as Dracula," Morrison says, "and we got Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson to do a Swamp Thing story, which is known as 'Squish Thing,' where Homer gets engulfed in a squishy accident and becomes a Squish Thing."

The other half of the flip-book, arriving in September, will feature an EC parody with art by John Severin, Angelo Torres, Al Williamson and Mark Schultz. Schultz pitched in when health issues forced Williamson out of the project, but Williamson later recovered and inked Schultz's pencils.

The wraparound story is by James Lloyd.

* The Simpsons Super Spectacular is a new book featuring a Radioactive Man story and another story featuring Simpsons characters as super-heroes.

Ty Templeton is writing and drawing a Pie-Man story for the first issue and is teaming with writer Chuck Dixon for the first time on a story called "Crisis on Springfield 2," where Bart and Millhouse go through a storm drain and come out in a strange new world.

Ian Boothby is writing a story for the second issue called "The League of Extraordinary Barts," where various Barts from different dimensions come together to battle an evil Bart who uses Professor Frink's devices in a plot to take over the world. "It's just a good, smack-em-in-the-mouth, silly super-hero story," Boothby said. "It's a lot of fun."

Another Boothby story involves the League of Women Voters banning super-heroes.

* Templeton is also working on a Simpsons Comics story.

* Gail Simone and Mark Waid are collaborating for the first time on a story.

"It's basically a story about revamping things that really don't need to be revamped," Simone said. "It's called 'Maximum Simpsons.' Lisa has written a little comics story about her family and Hollywood gets ahold of it and decides they really got to pump it up.

* Simone is also working on a series of Lisa detective stories.

* Morrison said that he is getting interest in Heroes Anonymous as a live-action television series. "I'm getting really good response from producers," Morrison said, adding that no new comics are currently planned.

* Scott Shaw! said an upcoming story in Bart Simpson Comics will see Principal Skinner's mother insist he crack down on Halloween costumes. He is also writing a story for Simpsons Super Spectacular #4, a solo Senor Ding-Dong story.

* In an upcoming Simpsons Comics issue, the Simpsons get their own Broadway show.