[3] The miniseries ran for four issues dated December 1993 to March 1994, with writing by Hama while the art was handled by former Air Pirates member Gary Hallgren.

Said band, the K-Otics, appears in the third issue alongside caricatures of other members of the group, all of whom were New York-area comic artists and writers at the time of creation.

[6] Mort Graves is a slacker teen from Mistake Beach, Long Island, New York, who, in a futile attempt to impress his crush Kimberly Dimenmein, races against her boyfriend Lance Boyle in his father's recently refurbished 1950 "bullet-nose" Commander coupe after an argument.

With no other choice due to his morally dubious nature, Mort is sent back to the living world where he is now a ghostly being and discovers that his family is in "mourning" for him (actually more concerned with other things relating to his death).

At dinner that night, Mort is left alone with his younger brother Kyle who demands that he pay back his loans owed to him and his relatives or suffer a blackmailing.

The green room in the club is occupied by a hard rock outfit named Bombs and Hoses, who don't take kindly to the band and Weirdo's parents.

After coming home from the previous night's show, Mort discovers that Weirdo's parents were robbed and their car stripped, and that his father's debt is inescapable.

[9] Fed up with the stress of non-existence, alongside his friend's predicament, Mort confronts Teen Death who proposes three different potential outcomes had he not died.

[10] Mort returns to the present where his family still doesn't respect him enough, Weirdo has become homeless and is bunking with his grandmother, Slick kills his dream and gets into science fiction like his parents, Maureen changes her style and starts dating Lance, and Kimberly runs away to become a beat poet.

Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg were attached to produce at Dreamworks with Larry Hama and Joe's Apartment director John Payson writing the script.

[18] None of any of the attempted adaptations' production material has resurfaced in any form, though Hama has mentioned that some of the Simpson test footage was cut into a pitch trailer,[19] which was being shopped around as late as 2009 according to a since-deleted tweet from television writer Kevin Biegel.

[20] In 1994, the miniseries was serialized in Norwegian comics magazine Magnum, which at the time was popular for previously publishing The 'Nam alongside the then-current run of The Punisher.

Novelti Librari, through frequent contributor Jónatan K. Sark,[c] published an article in 2022 titled "Le Mort d'Marvel", as a retrospective of the comic and the multiple attempts to adapt it into a film.