I was meaning to post this for a while now, but kept procrastinating over it. Anyway, a short while ago Per Sanderhage (Writer for LEGO Publishing's Pirates and Castle Kids series) sent me some Pirates and Castle comic materials. Among them are a 1987 try-out page from when Per Sanderhage opted to be the illustrator for the Pirates series before Vincente Vano Ibarra later took over that role. But where things get a bit more interesting are with the remainder of the materials, which are from a 1992 Castle comic unrelated to Castle Kids and done in a similar art style to LEGO Publishing's Pirates series, and include a genealogical table of all the characters in the comic detailing their familial and ancestral ties, seven conceptual character drawings done by Per Sanderhage of some of the aforementioned characters in the genealogical table, a polaroid photo of two Dragon Masters minifigs showing how they would look, and lastly Per Sanderhage's letter in 1992 to Preben Dewald (current Product Manager at LEGO Publishing) regarding the project. I discussed this earlier with jamesster and he pointed out that the word "Tarenta" in the title of the genealogical table was the placename of where the Castle audio dramas are set, and also pointed out that a lot of the character names in the genealogical table were either closely similar or identical to some of those in the audio dramas. [9/16/2015 4:48:48 PM] jamesster: I expect the overall concepts stuck with it but the specifics of the characters and names got switched around or otherwise changed a lot Pirates 1987 Try-out page:
1992 Unpublished/Unfinished Castle Comic