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I really don't agree with that last bit, and I don't wish the old days to come back. An example: in 1986, Steven Grant and Mike Zeck did the first Punisher mini, now considered a minor classic. Zeck was never a fast artist though, so when he fell behind the editor made Mike Vosburg do a last minute hack job on the final issue.
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The result? Marvel now has a piece of comic that has been in continuous print in some form or another for, I dunno, fifteen years forever marred by a huge drop in art quality in the final chapter - just so it wouldn't miss a month in 1986.
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Obviously a fill-in was not the desirable solution there. It was a limited series, so they could have waited until they had enough issues "in the can" before shipping #1 if they had enough foresight.
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Let's not forget that Kraven's Last Hunt had art by Mike Zeck and that shipped 6 issues over a 2 month period.
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The difference? Kraven's Last Hunt had proper scheduling. More impressive since it timed up with events in three ongoing series, rather than just being a self-contained mini-series (although frankly it would have been better served as one, but that's an entirely different subject).
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(And yeah, back in the day a lot of lateness was covered up with fill-ins. See the DeFalco/Frenz run in the mid 80's).
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The "commuter" fill-in by Peter David is considered a classic. People aren't going to object to fill-ins so much if they're damn good fill-ins.
Absolutely (David did really strong fill-ins back then), but I don't see how it has anything to do with whether people miss deadlines or not. And I prefer using fill-ins as stopgap one-shots (now) compared to throwing them in the main title (then).
