WIZARD WORLD LOS ANGELES: MARVEL'S CUP O' JEPH PANEL

LOS ANGELES -- Jeph Loeb took center stage for the final panel on Friday at Wizard World Los Angeles and introduced his latest collaboration with Tim Sale, Captain America: White.

Following are live running highlights from the panel:

* The panel started late and experienced a series of technical difficulties with the visual presentations.

* King-Size Hulk will feature interior art from Arthur Adams. "Because Arthur likes to draw monsters, we thought it would be good from him to draw Hulk vs. Wendigo," Loeb said.

* In Hulk #7-9, there will be two stories in each issue. The opening story will be drawn by Adams, and the second story shows what happened between the Red Hulk and She-Hulk in Hulk #2 and She-Hulk attempts to exact revenge with help from other female heroes, as drawn by Frank Cho.

* King-Size Hulk will also feature Cho and Herb Trimpe.

* Aron Coleite, Loeb's cohort on Heroes, takes over on Ultimate X-Men #94. Loeb noted that the issue number signfied changed in Uncanny X-Men and that will also apply with Ultimate.

* Brian Michael Bendis and Butch Guice are the creative team for Ultimate: Origins. "You may think you know everyone's origin, but you don't," Loeb said.

Loeb is teaming with David Finch on the five-issue Ultimatum, due at the end of the year. "We're changing the Ultimate Universe," he said.

* Loeb said he has read the first issue of Secret Invasion and "a lot of the cats are let out of the bag."

* Jim McCann said that Peter Milligan will be writing a Marvel Knights Silver Surfer project.

* Loeb then introduced Tim Sale for Captain America: White, a six-issue mini-series. He said it would be the first in a series of collaborations between them.

Loeb said the story takes place in 1941 with a mission that defined Captain America and Bucky. They will be joined by Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandoes.

Sale said he tries to find a style for each character. "I'm still kind of formulating what I'm doing with Captain America," he said. "It's going to be in ink-wash, like Daredevil: Yellow and Catwoman and stuff like that. In my head right now, it's a mixtures of Jack Kirby and Jack Davis, and (Jim) Steranko."

Sale said he "really wants to get in the trenches."

* Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada then called. "I think that is the coolest thing ever," Quesada said of Sale's return to Marvel.

* Quesada teased a November event that Loeb and Bendis are among the masterminds of.

* Loeb said he couldn't reveal details of further collaborations with Sale.

* Will Sale continue to work on NBC's Heroes? "Boy, I sure hope so," Sale said coyly.

* Loeb said Season 3/Volume 3 of Heroes is still entitled "Villains." He said that the writers' strike enabled more Sylar because Zachary Quinto won't have conflicts with the Star Trek movie. "He will be upfront and very personal in the first episode," Loeb said.

* Loeb said he thinks Heroes: Origins still might happen. "Is it on the table right now? No," he said.

* Asked about Marvel characters he'd like to draw, Sale mentioned Doctor Strange and Silver Surfer but noted, even as a kid, he was always driven more by the artists.