[3] Instead Jones took Alien Worlds to Blackthorne Publishing, who produced a one-shot featuring reprints of stories taken from earlier issues.

Believing that the deal included the names of the Jones/Campbell anthologies, he teased a series called Todd McFarlane's Alien Worlds in the 1998 one-shot Total Eclipse; however, the comic would never appear.

Nearly all of the stories in Alien Worlds were written by Jones, with only a few exceptions (notably Jan Strnad's "Stoney End" in issue #8 and Frank Brunner's "The Reading!"

[2] Among the cover artists for the series were John Bolton, Dave Stevens, Frank Brunner, William Stout, and Joe Chiodo.

In 2010, Jones and actor Thomas Jane announced they were writing a revival series slated for release sometime in the future.