Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4548390-20151121015752/@comment-61022-20160223145018

Ummmmmmm... Not it doesn't confirm anything. It states that the Maestro character was first introduced in 1992. There's nowhere in the interview that confirms that the Maestro being used in Contest of Champions is the original one that Peter David created in Future Imperfect or an alternate.

I should point out that there are four confirmed versions of the Maestro: (1) The original Future Imperfect version (2) the one from Earth-10943 that appeared in Avengers Vol 4, Bruce Banner Jr. from Earth-807128, and the one from Earth-TRN218.

And I don't know how many times I need to reiterate this point either: Just because a writer intends something to be some way does not ultimately affect the *editorial* position either. There are countless instances where a writer has said "This is X" only for the Handbooks to come out and say "No, it's actually Y", particularly when it comes to alternate realities.

Also, we're not going to wildly speculate when the next Handbook is coming out next month which will probably answer these questions anyway because it's promising that there is an entire section based on Battleworld which will (hopefully) explain everything.