Bissette has revealed that he and Veitch had been working throughout 2009 to produce a "bare-bones hardcover reprint" of "1963" at Dynamite Entertainment but the plan fell through in January 2010. However, he did reveal that there was a "1998 legal agreement signed by Alan Moore, Rick Veitch and myself dividing up our creative properties" that left Bisette with "N-Man, the Fury, the Hypernaut and Commander Solo & Her Screamin' Skydogs" who, he thought, "fit nicely with a bevy of my own characters and concepts I've never had homes for: Curtis Slarch, Lo!, 'The Big Dig,' and much, much more you’ve never heard of or seen because I could never interest a publisher in those projects." Together they formed "my own invented comics universe — the Naut Comics universe" which became the core of his revival of the "1963" characters he owned, to be published in late 2010 in "Tales of the Uncanny – N-Man & Friends: A Naut Comics History, Volume 1."